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FOUND: Dna study finds multiple blackchin tilapia sources - You Need To See This

Activists from the Biothai Foundation gather in Bangkok in October 2025 to launch the Alien Hunter application, which allows users to photograph blackchin tilapia found in their area and send the coordinates to help create a real-time outbreak map and support analysis by scientists. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

A new study by researchers from Chulalongkorn University has concluded that invasive blackchin tilapia were introduced to Thailand at multiple places and in multiple ways, and not as a result of a single introduction as believed earlier.

The six-member research team based their conclusions on a DNA analysis of 466 fish samples from 20 locations nationwide. The results were published in Aquaculture Reports.

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