Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fish Assassin on July 20, 2004, 01:47:55 PM
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Here's a question for you fishing experts: Why is a red tilipia cost more than a black one ? They appear to the same except for the colouration. Anyone ?
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The black ones has a dirt tastes to it and the red ones dont...so ppl perfer to buy the red ones ::)
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Yes, it's a fish Normfish
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Awayz learning eh normfish?
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Thank you FA, where is it from??????
They are warm-water fish, none in BC as far as I know. Phillipinos are big into that, and I suspect other tropical people.
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Approximately 100% of the tilipias you buy in the store are farm raised. I don't find them to be tasty, sometimes mushy and somewhat muddy in texture. I'm sure that wild tilipias that are caught fresh in clean waters taste a lot better. I'd rather eat farmed salmon and I'm sure farmed salmon is healthier than farm raised tilipias.
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Their flesh is certainly a little soft.
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fresh tilipias are very very tasty, firm meat and incredible taste if grilled and blackened on the outside, then basted with a mixture of olive oil and lime juice. can be very very expensive if ordered in vancouver upper class restaurants.
you are right though about the farmed ones... :P
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well, we spell tham tlapias, and we have them in the river in the copper canyon in mexico. The water there is generally clear and cold most of the year, and those tlapias are pretty tasty. Their local name is mojara.
They are an amazing fish. I threw a few small ones in our swimming pool (which we use mostly for irrigation) and ended up with a bunch of large ones eventually, all without feeding them anything. These guys do just fine on algae if there isn't anything else available, like mosquito or dragonfly larvae.
They will hit a fly on the surface.
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I believe they were originally imported to solve the mosquito problems.
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tilipias are great steamed!