A shrimp farmer in Samut Songkhram has decried the devastating impact of the invasive blackchin tilapia after discovering tonnes of the fish in her ponds instead of the shrimp that once provided a stable income for her family.
Mrs Amornwan, 61, who operates more than 50 rai of shrimp ponds in Village 5 of Yi San subdistrict, said she was confronted with a painful reality during her harvest time at the end of her most recent cultivation cycle. Rather than finding marketable shrimp, she discovered more than 5,000 kilogrammes (five tonnes) of blackchin tilapia.
