Raising standards of coastal fish farms in S’pore with tilapia, the ‘chicken of the sea’

Heng Heng Fish Farm owner Yeo King Kwee (centre) with his son and farm co-owner Alvin Yeo (left) and daughter Albee Yeo, who works in the media industry. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): In the 1990s, fish farmer Yeo King Kwee would take his three children around the island to catch tilapia in longkangs (drains). The family’s catch did not become fried fish for dinner. Not yet, at least.

Yeo would take the fish – which come in orange-pink, white and black – to his farm off Lim Chu Kang and let them breed in the waters of the West Johor Strait.