UF/IFAS Explores Bringing Popular South American Food Fish to Florida
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 10:31
in Biology & Nature
Have you dined on Arapaima? South Americans eat the fish regularly, and University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers are studying whether it could be a viable food fish in the United States. "It has lots of high-quality meat," said Jeffrey Hill, a UF/IFAS associate professor of fisheries and aquatic sciences. "It's an easy fish to sell. It's a really good food fish."