A sudden increase in tilapia in some rivers in Thailand, a headache instead of a blessing?

More than grace, the government of Thailand considers the sudden increase of a type of tilapia in their rivers to be perversion. To encourage people to catch the fish, they buy it for 15 baht or the equivalent of P24 per kilo. In a report by GMA Integrated Newsfeed, the video showed that a river in Bangkok was almost filled with blackchin tilapia. There are residents who catch tilapia for cooking. But even if they hunt every day, the tilapia will not be exhausted. Although people are free to eat, tilapias are still not considered a blessing, which according to their Department of Fisheries, are an invasive species or foreigner from Africa. To make matters worse, this type of tilapia is said to kill 20% of their native fish in Thailand. Because of this, fishermen in their country are at risk of losing their livelihood because the invasive tilapia eats the eggs of other fish. It is said that the population of such foreign tilapia has spread quickly and has also reached their other ...