date:Feb 19, 2013
ike females but are genetically males).
Since these phenotypic females are capable of producing eggs, they are mated with normal males to produce a batch of fry containing 75 per cent males, thus diminishing the number of female offspring. Males from this batch when mated with female tilapias produce only male offsprings, he said.
Funded by the Agriculture and Fisheries Development Fund (AFDF) under MoAF, the Aquaculture Centre has started developing a local hatchery for tilapia in collaborati