It’s been about two decades since Malaysia began intensively farming fish commercially and since then, the aquaculture industry in the Southeast Asian nation has grown steadily, growing 36 percent from 2005 to 2010 and then growing 10 percent more in the past five years.
Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) accounts for nearly half of the total freshwater aquaculture production in the country, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) — so producers are naturally scrambling to improve yields on the species.
Researchers
