Thailand: Urgently launch proactive measures to suppress black-chinned tilapia, aiming for 3 million kg

Published 2024년 11월 27일

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The Thai Department of Fisheries is leading a joint effort to eliminate the invasive black-chinned tilapia, setting a target to remove 3 million kilograms. This initiative, backed by a $60 million budget from the Agricultural Welfare Fund, involves collaboration with various departments and the use of predator fish and research into sterilization techniques like the 4N chromosome set. The long-term strategy also includes ecological restoration and the release of local aquatic life to enhance biodiversity.

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Launching proactive measures to urgently eliminate the problem of 'black-chinned tilapia', targeting 3 million kilograms, supporting processing into products, using research and innovations on the '4N chromosome set' to sterilize fish On November 26, 2024, Mr. Anukul Prueksanusak, deputy government spokesman, revealed the progress of eliminating the problem of black-chinned tilapia. Most recently, the Department of Fisheries signed a memorandum of understanding to implement the "Project to Solve the Problem of Eliminating the Danger from the Spread of Black-chinned Tilapia, Urgent Phase" between the Rubber Authority of Thailand, the Department of Land Development, the Department of Agricultural Extension, the Department of Cooperative Promotion, and the Department of Agricultural Science to work together in an integrated manner, both in terms of management, academics, and operations related to removing black-chinned tilapia caught from nature by disposing of them using appropriate ...

Source: Naewna