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Doubts by the origin of cobias
Posted On 27 Feb 2016
There is no certainty that the sightings of cobias reported in Colombia and Panama by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, headquartered in the latter country, are related to those that escaped last August from one of the cages of the OceanFarm company, located 9 miles from the coast of Jaramijo, in Manabi.
The presence of this species concerns the scientists of that institution, who last week warned about the potential “far-reaching effects on fisheries and marine ecology in the Eastern Pacific” the cobia would supposedly cause in Ecuador.
One of them, Ross Robertson, in an interview with BBCWorld, cataloged these fish as “an unusual type of predators,” because they prey on smaller fish, crustaceans and molluscs. (I)
