Originally Posted By: Omaha
Not to hijack, but I have a general question regarding tilapia that I've been curious about. Why, when discussing stocking tilapia, are they referred in the pounds? Generally tilapia get bigger than BG and RES right? So why are they measured individually, but tilapia are measured by the pound?


I'm guessing here, but one of the fish stockers should have a more concrete answer. I'm thinking that the forage fish, FHM, GSH, etc. are sold by the pound, and since Tilapia fit into that category, well you get my drift. It also could be that since they spawn so frequently, that sorting the fish by size might be more trouble than it's worth. IIRC, the smaller sunfish, even tho they're sold by the individual fish, aren't counted out, they're weighed. For a given uniform size of fish, there should be "X" per pound.

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