Talk of the Town: Tilapia, a history

Comments on “Tilapia, a history,” (Second Opinion by Gideon Lasco, 8/02/24) via https://opinion.inquirer.net:

Imelda introduced the golden kuhol aka apple snail from South America supposedly to augment the protein intake of the poor. The poor didn’t have a taste for these still don’t and so they have become an additional pest in rice fields all over the country. The moral of the story …

Disgusted

Interesting article! My first introduction to tilapia was via my uncle’s backyard tilapia pond in the early ’50s. Then later, we used to fish for it using crude fishing rod with line and hook at a relative’s bangus fishpond purely for leisure but not for food. At that time, tilapia was treated as nuisance fish in a bangus fishpond. They were small, looked ugly and not saleable. Tilapia has come a long way since then to present, competing directly with bangus as common food on the table.

Felipe Soriano