A range of tilapia strains are produced by Tilapia Aquaculture International, based in Florida, USA. Here, TAI's MIKE SIPE explains the work he has carried out to produce f-1 hybrids 'T he gene lines I have developed include the Red Red Tilapia, the Red Butterball tilapia and the black butterball tilapia.
All of these names are copyright names for the actual or pure tilapia gene lines.
I have also been developing methods for breeding, and growing tilapia intensively and extensively since 1969.
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