On 6/19/2015 11:41 PM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:17:38 -0600, La Mirada > wrote:
>
>> On 6/19/2015 5:17 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>> Those fishes took over the habitations of the native fishes. All our
>>> inland waterways are choked with tilapia. Mostly they are stinky, dirty,
>>> fish. My guess is that some folks on the mainland will learn to hate
>>> carp too.
>>
>> Ayup.
>>
>> And suckers.
>
> I doubt that will happen any time soon! Didn't the ancient Egyptians
> farm tilapia too?

You really know your history!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia

Tilapia go by many names. The aquaculture of Nile tilapia goes back to
Ancient Egypt, where it was represented by the hieroglyph K1,
K1 of the Gardiner List.

Tilapia were one of the three main types of fish caught in Biblical
times from the Sea of Galilee. At that time they were called musht, or
commonly now even "St. Peter's fish". The name "St. Peter's fish" comes
from the story in the Gospel of Matthew about the apostle Peter catching
a fish that carried a coin in its mouth, though the passage does not
name the fish.[3] While the name also applies to Zeus faber, a marine
fish not found in the area, a few tilapia species (Sarotherodon
galilaeus galilaeus and others) are found in the Sea of Galilee, where
the author of the Gospel of Matthew recounts the event took place. These
species have been the target of small-scale artisanal fisheries in the
area for thousands of years.[4][5]

The common name tilapia is based on the name of the cichlid genus
Tilapia, which is itself a latinisation of thiape, the Tswana word for
"fish".[6] Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith named the genus in 1840.[7]