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Fishermen in Queensland, Australia suspect a human hand is helping invasive fish to spread throughout the state’s rivers and dams. African tilapia fish have spread considerably further than predicted by biologists and fishery authorities and local fishermen now worry that the approaching wet season will end efforts to control the tilapia invasion in already infected waters.
Research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health show that Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) can be a valuable aid in the fight against mosquitoes; the animal responsible for transmitting malaria to humans. Today, malaria can be fairly easily treated and even cured, but a millions of people living in developing countries do not have access to malaria medication.
Two students at New York’s Trinity school made a surprising discovery when they used a new genetic barcoding method to test fish sold in fish stores and served in restaurants on Upper Manhattan. Out of 60 different samples, 14 turned out to be mislabelled.
In response to a recent report from Wake Forest University about high levels of Omega-6 in tilapia, an international coalition of 16 doctors* spoke out today, lead by Dr. William Harris of the Sanford School of Medicine. According to the coalition, tilapia is a part of a healthy diet since it is low in total and saturated fat and high in protein and “replacing tilapia or catfish with ‘bacon, hamburgers or doughnuts’ is absolutely not recommended”.
According to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine*, farm-raised tilapia contains very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids.
Tilapia has been farmed in ponds for thousands of years, and the Ancient Egyptians are for instance known to have raised Nile tilapia in ponds along the river Nile. During the 1950s an important step in the history of farmed tilapia was taken when Tel Aviv University zoologist Prof. Lev Fishelson developed a hybrid of tilapia that could withstand both high salinity levels and high temperature
From July to September 2008, 52 restaurants in Florida, United States where cited for allegedly misrepresenting what they serve to the public.
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