Can fish live in salt lakes?

I assume this large lake in Haiti so near the sea is salt walter, can anything live in such bodies? Can they be seeded with saltwater fish for fish farming or has evaporation overtime raised the salt level too high for that? The island (on both sides of the border with the DR) has several large lakes like this.

Distinguish between salt lakes and hypersaline lakes. Many salt lakes, especially those with sporadic connection to the ocean, do have a fish population. The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest salt lake, has a thriving sturgeon population.

Hypersaline lakes, on the other hand, with salt concentrations well above ocean levels, generally have fauna devoid of fish, with abundant microorganisms and often Artemia, the brine shrimp, which tolerates higher salinity than most multicellular organisms.

The largest lake in Haiti is the salt water Lake Azuei. Currently, there is an active program to restock it with fish

The Salton Sea had Orangemouth Corvina, Tilapia, Sargo and Gulf Croaker. It’s getting awefully salty out there though and, as far as I can tell, there are only Tilapia in the sea. Not sure how long they’ll last.

Utah’s Great Salt Lakeis generally identified as “too salty for fish” – its normal inhabitants are brine shrimp (and, presumably, whatever brine shrimp eat). But for a period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Utah was getting a LOT of precipitation and the GSL was rising, the salinity near several of the fresh-water creeks was getting so low that there were actually fish living in the lake. Didn’t last, though.

I thought tilapia were freshwater fish? Seems I’ve seen people raise them in man made fish farms that I thought were freshwater. Or can they do both?

Tilapia isn’t just one species, it’s the common name for over a hundred, plus the different hybrids that have popped up between them. Technically they’re fresh water fish, but they’re pretty tough and can handle brackish water, a mix of salt water and fresh.

One of them, the Blackchin Tilapia has breeding groups living off the coast of Hawaii.
http://www.hawaiisfishes.com/fish_of_month/fish_of_month.htm