Tilapia gap opens between farmed fish.

It is also called the "aquatic chicken", and its cultivation has doubled the catfish and salmon, placing it in second place worldwide.

It is not the first time in an international forum heard that that tilapia aquaculture is what the chicken poultry.

In fact, It called him "the aquatic chicken", by Kevin Fitzsimmons, professor and specialist in Environmental Sciences at the University of Arizona, he exhibited at the International Congress of whitefish, Vigo organized by Conxemar, that tilapia is now the second most cultivated fish in the world, the produced 4,2 million tonnes, while the capture of wild species has not changed in 30 years.

If the species is already a tough culture-indeed, He has grown by leaps and bounds beating catfish (banking) and salmon- has been deciphered the genome of tilapia has improved the performance and efficiency of the crop.

This achievement has prevented the use of hormones for male specimens, much larger.

Fitzsimmons explained that in the United States tilapia was an unknown species and is now almost the highest consumption and the market is already coming up with presentations to shoot popularity.

He gave the example of reabribles containers or boxes steaks green curry, Breaded or stuffed crab. And is that, as chicken, Tilapia can be the menu every day or part of the letter of the best restaurants.