Tilapia are warm-weather fish. Typically, they can’t survive cold snaps during the Texas winter. But the water in Squaw Creek is used to cool down the reactors at a Luminant nuclear power plant ...

The clock is ticking for Tai Nguyen. He has until Thursday to get rid of all the fish at his southwest Houston, Texas fish farm, nearly 50,000 tilapia the state says he has no legal permit to raise.

Already, exotic invasive fish - armored catfish, tilapia and grass carp - have established self-sustaining populations in Texas, causing damage to freshwater ecosystems. Piranhas, which have been ...

"Many of the cichlids kept in aquariums are also very brightly colored." There are also non-native tilapia in Texas, which are also cichlids, McDonnell added. TPWD encourages fishermen to keep ...

Texas tilapia farms have produced as much as 600,000 pounds a year. • The tilapia industry was worth $1.1 million in 2010. • After 2011, the production of the fish dropped 150,000 pounds a year.

Tilapia, the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish (or fish in the Cichlidae family), are native to only the Middle East and Africa. They are now farm-raised in over 80 ...

Scientists net virus behind tilapia die-offs in Israel, Ecuador Discovery points the way to protecting a fish that feeds multitudes Date: April 5, 2016 Source: Columbia University's Mailman School ...

A recent fish count of Florida’s famous Silver Springs revealed alarming results: Blue tilapia, an invasive fish, now make up 86% of the biomass, or weight, of the total fish population in the ...