Taiwan Tilapia

Fish flesh of Taiwan Tilapia is obtained by cutting laterally from the gill, along the spine to the fish tail. Fish skin is also peeled off. The flesh is then cleaned, packaged, and rapidly frozen at low temperature for storage. We do not use carbon monoxide to process the frozen fillets , and so unlike other brands, the appearance of fish flesh is not so shiny red. However, this can show the natural and fresh status of fish flesh.

The underground spring water in Shoufeng Township in Hualien is clean and copious that has long been used to cultivate Tilapia, giving a total cultivating area about 300~500 hectares. In presence, Tilapia is mostly cultivated in the traditional way. To improve the Tilapia product image, we cooperate with Li Chuan Farm in Shoufeng Township introducing new management methods, to cultivate the fish in underground spring water using branded feeding stuffs until the fish weighs about 1kg. We then continue the cultivation at our Hualien factory using treated clean sea water from the Pacific Ocean for more than one month to get sea water Taiwan Tilapia , before the fish is then harvested and processed.

The selected tilapia fingers are cultivated with feeding stuffs of special ingredients, without using drugs, antibiotics or growth regulators. Tilapia grown under such strict management and clean environment is specially named Taiwan Tilapia' in order to be distinguishable from the traditionally cultivated Tilapia.

In tradition, Tilapia is bred under the agropisciculture . As fish is roughly cultivated in regulators pond, breeders usually use antibiotics, and growth enhancement drugs to control diseases and parasites, and enhance growth that cause residual drugs to remain in the fish. The fish flesh sometimes even stink and so incurs consumers' doubts about its quality.

Taiwan Tilapia is a specified brood of Tilapia , which is bred under strict management procedures in clean breeding environment