“…The native fish species are in the ranking of the most produced fish in Brazil (SAINT-PAUL, 2017). However, tilapia is the leading fish-farmed species in Brazil representing 57 percent of the total national farming (PEIXEBR, 2020;MARQUES et al 2020). Boosting the production of native species in the country, Brazilian research institutes have focused on improving technologies that enable greater production of native fish, such as matrinxã (GOMES et al, 2020), surubim and its hybrids (FANTINI et al, 2020), silver catfish (BALDISSEROTTO; RADÜNZ-NETO, 2004;MARTINELLI et al, 2013;POLI;SCHVEITZER;NUNER, 2015;ROCHA et al, 2017, tambacu (REIS NETO et al, 2020CARDOSO et al, 2020) 116 Cavalli et al ROCHA et al, 2012), pink shrimp (WASIELESKY Jr. et al, 2018), among others.…”