Tilapia........?

[thomas70]

They will use them in alot of fish farms to cleanup the tanks after they raise something else.

[Phat Mann]

I have never tried one. I saw a bunch of these things in a stormwater management pond thriving under a seafood restaurant's outside deck.

Talk about fresh- they were the special for that night!!

[SeaBiscuit]

Tilapia aquaculture was developed as a potential avenue of providing inexpensive protein to undernourished populations. The fish is very hardy, temperature and water quality tolerant and grows fast on vegetative diet.
Instead of feeding the poor, however, they have crept up in the menus and diet of the western world.
As is the case with most farmed fish the quality of the meat is not up to par with wild and the fat content higher. That results in stronger "earthy" flavor.
I kinda hate seeing tilapia (or catfish for that matter) on the menu in small waterfront seafood restaurants in out of the way coastal NC places like Snead's Ferry. I'll take fresh, wild spot, bluefish or mackerel anytime.

By the way, Korean fish markets in the NE US have a lot more than tilapia and catfish in their tanks. Popular saltwater fish (like tautog) can be purchased alive as well as some not so popular like oyster toad fish
Greeks, like myself, will eat just about anything that comes from the sea, so "different strokes for different folks"
SeaBiscuit

[fowlscay]

the DNR here in MD has been catching the Chino,s with small tautog that they are sending to NY alive in tanks . You are what you eat!!! Maybe we could send a bunch of them to Washington to clean up the place