...(per Alan Johnson letter): 'Digestion of the filamentous algae will release the nutrients bound in them, likely causing more single-celled algae to bloom causing water to become green. Tilapia may diminish the filamentous algae then turn to other food sources which could compete with the other game fish in the pond, example would be consumption of zooplankton important to larval bass and bluegill. If the tilapia did result in a population of large bass, when the tilapia die there would be no forage until tilapia are restocked and spawn again. '
But what about those BOW with an established forage base, like mine, with BG and BCP? Another topic of research: comparison of (new) pond lacking established forage base vs. established pond with forage base, and the effect of tilapia as FA control on other algal species growth..
