A Short History of Aquaculture Innovation | Hakai Magazine

1924

“By the 1970s, researchers had devised a solution: sex reversal technology, which produced all-male populations through hormone manipulation. (Males were preferred because they grow faster.) This advancement was one of several that facilitated the growth of the tilapia industry. “

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Thumbnail image via Wikipedia Commons Unknown author / Public domain/ “The Tomb of Nakht, from 1500 BC, contains a tilapia hieroglyph just above the head of the central figure.”