Florida farms tilapia, too, which is delicious... and the other day I saw a bag of whole scaled tilapia farmed in the Amazon. I have had the South American tilapia and it tastes great too.
But I avoid the Chinese tilapia, as it is often super-fishy and mushy. Apparently they don’t let the fish get very old before harvest, or else they can’t survive long enough in sewage to grow up, lol.