Yes. Nearly all freshwater fishes are edible, but their taste, health and how easy they are to prepare needs to be taken into consideration.
In the Philippines, red pacu (Colossoma bidens) or locally known as “tambaqui” is eaten as an alternative to bangus (milkfish). Among the dishes prepared from red pacu were steamed pacu with lemongrass, “pacurry” (red pacu curry), red pacu in chili tomato sauce, Hawaiian red pacu pizza, pan de pacu, pacu-loco wrapped in taro leaves and red pacu pastel.
As per Philippines Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center chief, Westly Rosario, a kilogram of red pacu can grow to a foot long in a year. “It is best eaten at year old because its flesh becomes hard when it becomes older,” he said. Find out more at Inquirer.net.
When you’re deciding what fish to use for your aquaponics system, you must take into consideration whether you’re raising the fish to be eaten or simply just to correlate with your plants.
Here are 7 different aquaponics fish species that can be used for either purpose shared by Homeaquaponicssystem.com.