date:Feb 19, 2013
'Super males' are being produced through genetic engineering so that when they are bred with females, all the offsprings are males, reports Muscat Daily.
The reason for working on male tilapia population is that males grow faster, are larger and fleshier and hence, more in demand among consumers.
Moreover, males need less feed unlike female tilapias. This means less production costs, said Dr Fahad S Ibrahim, director of the Aquaculture Centre under MoAF.
Our aim is to generate male tilapias f