Discussed: 16 Jul 2024 at 13: 33
According to Bangkok government Chadchart Sittipunt, aggressive blackchin tilapia seafood have been discovered in Bangkok’s Makkasan marsh, which connects via canals to the Chao Phraya River.
Blackchin fish were one of the many dead fish that were left stranded when local authorities drained the 72, 000-square-meter lake in Ratchathewi region in readiness for wet winter flood and a pumping place was shut down for maintenance, according to the governor on Tuesday.
He claimed during a visit to the place that about 20 % of the deceased fish found on Monday were made up of blackchin fish. The remainder were frequent fish.
The Sam Sen, Saen Saep, and Khlong Tan ditches connect Makkasan lake to the Chao Phraya River. This is quite a cause for concern”, Mr Chadchart said.
He claimed that City Hall was carefully monitoring the activity of the invasive species, which is found only in west Africa.
The government argued that it was urgent to control the number of blackchin fishes. Finding a purpose for them may be helpful. The Department of Fisheries was developing a technique to sterilize the bass.
After learning about it on social media, some persons rushed to the lake on Monday to rescue the stranded bass.  ,
According to Isra News Agency, CP Foods, a subsidiary of the Charoen Pokphand farming company, imported two thousand blackchin fishes from Ghana in 2010. The business was granted permission to investigate the fish for breeding at its Samut Songkhram state research facility.
The fish had been buried within three days of being brought to Thailand, according to the company’s subsequent communication to the Department of Fisheries. However, as their population increased, native fish started declining as they afterwards started appearing in nearby waterways.
According to DNA tests conducted by the Department of Fisheries, blackchin fish found in the waters of 13 Thai counties were all found to be of the same family property.
Authorities claim that the species can survive in a wide range of water temperatures and is very dynamic.
The seafood have been found breeding in Samut Songkhram, Samut Prakan, Phetchaburi, Bangkok, Chanthaburi, Rayong, Ratchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla and Samut Sakhon.
Blackchin fish breed pretty quickly, with only 22 times until the egg-laying level is hatching, according to Thanaporn Jiansuk, chairman of the Samut Prakan Khlong Dan Fishery Association. As many as 99 % of their eggs hatched, she said.
Without a tear, the fish was continue reproducing after laying their egg, she said.
The removal of blackchin fish would be on the national agenda, according to Agriculture Minister Thamanat Prompow on Tuesday. A study on successful sterilization was already being conducted.
He had even requested that the Thai Rubber Authority fund the purchase of the fish so that it could be used in the production of fertilizers.
According to Mr. Thamanat, the fish second appeared in Thailand many times before, and work to get rid of it has already begun in the Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, and Samut Songkhram regions.
” They have reached Prachuap Khiri Khan and Phetchaburi.” They may live in streams and tributaries and live in freshwater, salty waters and seawater”, he said.
The minister expressed concern that Bangkok has now been the site of the bass war. But, there was no conclusive proof that someone was to blame for it.