What fish are grown in aquaculture?
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The Wong Lab at IMET is working on improving the environmental sustainability of aquaculture, or fish farming. What kinds of fish do they grow?
Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Size: max 60 cm
Lifespan: up to 10 years
Diet: plants, detritus and invertebrates
Habitat: Native to North Africa and Israel
Fun Fact: Female tilapia are mouth brooders who will incubate and protect fertilized eggs in their mouths until eggs develop and hatch to larval stage.
Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria)
Size: 80+ cm (max 120 cm)
Lifespan: 90+ years!
Diet: crustaceans, cephalopods, worms and small fishes
Habitat: Northeastern Pacific Ocean on mud bottoms
Fun Fact: Another common name of sablefish is “black cod”, however, it is not a part of cod family
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Size: 75 cm
Lifespan: 3-7 years
Diet: aquatic insects, mollusks, crustaceans, squids and fish
Habitat: Coastal rivers of North America, Iceland, Greenland, Europe, Russia and the North Atlantic Ocean
Fun Fact: Salmon are born in a river, move to the ocean to feed, and return to river to spawn. This kind of migration is called “anadromous.”
