Can any of you speak to the affect of tilapia on populations of bluegill? It is illegal to posses tilapia alive here but if one of the smaller species were to find its way into my lake in large enough numbers to become established, what would the affects be?
From what I understand, if tilapia overwinter as they do in much of Florida and their numbers boom, they can out compete native fish to include bass for spawning locations. Typically as tilapia biomass increases, native fish biomass decreases...
A simple breakdown:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wweinkle/TILAPIA.HTM
