The main objective of this study was to compare the growth performance and economic analysis of farmed and wild Nile tilapia fingerlings. For this fingerling were produced from four Nile tilapia strains obtained from different areas. Seventy-five mixed-sex fingerlings per strain with mean body weight 8.03±0.13 g were randomly selected and stocked in hapa in triplicates at a stocking density of 5.7fish/m3 and reared for 90 days. The fish were fed three times a day with 30% crude protein diet at a feeding rate of 5% body weight.
Body weight samples were taken bi-monthly. Five fish were slaughtered for fillet sample for approximate composition analysis. The results showed that the Farmed strain had (P<0.05) the highest mean values of final body weight, weight gain, specific growth rate, protein efficiency ratio, and best feed conversion ratio than the Koka and Ziway strains, but comparable with Chamo strain. The Chamo strain had (P<0.05) the highest crude lipid and the lowest crude protein among the tested strains. The Farmed strain also had (P<0.05) the highest profitable strain than the rest. In conclusion, the Farmed strain had the best performed strain with better profitability strain followed by the Chamo strain.