Talk:Nile perch

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Hello, I just followed the link to "Nile tilapia" at the bottom of the page and that describe said species as a "Perciform". However the linked page Nile_tilapia is described as a "Cichlid"? I'm no expert but would like to point out the discrepancy. User:Dragon.jade 2 Jan 2018 —Preceding undated comment added 06:49, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

I just undid some vandalism, sorry if I did it wrongly 81.90.168.59 (talk) 16:47, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Aren't Lake Rudolph and Lake Turkana the same thing? -- Walt Pohl 03:09, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Some good info on nile perch here, if someone is looking to expand the article. Suppafly 22:08, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In east Africa, the terms "nile perch" and "tilapia" are use interchangeably. Should this relationship be referenced here?
 * Added that info - also at Nile tilapia. Dysmorodrepanis 12:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

incomplete/unclear sentence: Darwin's Nightmare is highly controversial...
"'Darwin's Nightmare' is highly controversial, however, to those who consider the introduction of Nile perch beneficial. They accuse the documentary of deliberately implying causalities that do not actually exist. Even among critics of the introduction, the focus on spectacular but only loosely correlated recent issues - the neglect of the actual ecologic and economic upheaval caused by L. niloticus proliferation in Lake Victoria - most of which happened in the 1960s and 1970s prior to introduction."

Is it just me or is this sentence incomplete and unclear? I can't complete the sentence but here's a clean up of the text:

''To those who consider the introduction of Nile perch beneficial "Darwin's Nightmare" is highly controversial. They accuse the documentary of deliberately implying causalities that do not exist as well as the criticising its focus on spectacular but only loosely correlated recent issues.''

I cannot figure out what the second half says, and maybe even the last sentence of my edited version should be deleted as it is not backed up by examples. Moaltmann (talk) 19:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree that last sentence is a bit unreadable, I went to the discussion page to see if there were more clues. The bit "...most of which happened in the 1960s and 1970s prior to introduction." I didn't quite get either. Prior to the introduction of the fish? I thought the article says they were introduced in the 1950s, so that would be after, wouldn't it? You could probably shorten the sentence then put a citation needed marker on it. Rentrustic (talk) 09:44, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 (ACST) —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC). hes doesnt want her out ther alone now i dont wanna be inlove! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.2.17.139 (talk) 21:06, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Have added "to the" instead of the dash. IONO whether he editor actually wanted to say this, but having followed the Lates case as well as the brouhaha around the movie, it seems accurate: native fishermen and foreign biologists alike noted that something big was going on there, long before Russian cargo planes did or did not do telegenic weapons-for fillet'o'fish round trips.
 * In a nutshell, what had happened in the 1960s/1970s was that the local human population got displaced from its place at the top of the lake's trophic web by L. niloticus. The lakeshore residents had used the lake's cichlids as mainstay protein source for millennia, and this balance was upset within half a generation. The movie focuses on the consequences which are so-so - and hence the movie has to dramaticize to make its point. The process that led to these consequences was crass enough to require no such exaggeration. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 18:13, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

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from horizontimes.com
"The Nile Perch was first introduced to Lake Victoria in 1954. It was used as a way to counteract the drop in native fish caused by over-fishing. It was actually counterproductive and caused the extinction of more than 200 fish species! Yikes!" Carlm0404 (talk) 19:29, 25 March 2020 (UTC)