Genetically Engineered Salmon

[Falconian]

www.salmonnation.com › Fish - Cached - Similar

Salmon grow during the warmer months, so the normal cycle takes 36 months for a salmon to grow. This genetically altered salmon will be full grown in 18 months because they grow during the colder months also. I hope this isn't allowed, and if it is allowed, the FDA should require the proper labeling that this fish is genetically altered, but that hasn't been decided yet. Yum.

[Falconian]

www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/business/26salmon.html - Add to iGoogle

Maybe this link will work

[Lord_Byron]

I was wondering where this came from. I guess this explains it.

[PGY Tiercel]

Considering that I have generated transgenic animals (those with new genes put inserted) and currently am working on an adenoviral gene therapy project, I'm tilted a bit the other way. Depending on how it was made, I really don't see any big deals. The genes they've used are natural and occur in other closely related fish species. And if they've really been working in this for 10yrs they've had plenty of time to determine if anything else has been altered. To me the concern would be a fool-proof way to keep it from getting out into the wild where it would likely change the natural balance.

[Pete Segaard]

But will it ever be as tasty as Blinky?

[h2oville rocket]

http://www.salmonnation.com › Fish - Cached - Similar

Salmon grow during the warmer months, so the normal cycle takes 36 months for a salmon to grow. This genetically altered salmon will be full grown in 18 months because they grow during the colder months also. I hope this isn't allowed, and if it is allowed, the FDA should require the proper labeling that this fish is genetically altered, but that hasn't been decided yet. Yum.

I'm reading an excellent book right now that deals with this topic. You might be interested.

"Four Fish" by Paul Greenberg- discusses the changes in the fishing industry as it moves from wild catch to farmed, especially for salmon, cod, sea bass and tuna.

I'm moving back and forth between that and Johnny Winter's biography so I won't synopsize the fish book for fear of talking about albino fish that swam in the ponds at Woodstock or something but the section on salmon is enlightening- I had no idea so many fish were farmed or what that entailed. Greenberg doesn't necessarily see this as a bad thing, either. Its a good read.

[NWLB]

I saw a bumper sticker two weeks ago, protesting fish farms. Strange world.

Mostly I am just thinking how cool the neon colored fish at Wal-mart are.

[h2oville rocket]

By the way, all four fish i mentioned can be hunted legally with a bow and arrow.

[Pete Segaard]

By the way, all four fish i mentioned can be hunted legally with a bow and arrow.

In all 50 States, or just Ohio?

[h2oville rocket]

By the way, all four fish i mentioned can be hunted legally with a bow and arrow.

In all 50 States, or just Ohio?

Not sure but scoring a bowshot tuna in Ohio has been darn near impossible- I think I got one once but it all leaked out of the arrowhole in the can before I could eat it.

[MarkL]

Speaking of genetically engineered fish, can anybody explain this catch?



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_sp3575

... I say hoax. We'll see.

[Tech83]

Seriously..... what could this all lead to...... I just not sure what to make of some things.



Could it lead to.........

[h2oville rocket]

I only get that familiar with rainbows. Or a nice brown trout.