Giant Genetically Modified Salmon Coming

Genetic modification takes a step away from agricultural crops such as corn and soy and turns its focus to creating salmon for human consumption. The stress from over fishing and the long maturation growth of salmon (taking as long as three years to fully develop) proved the ideal target to allow the continuation of high production and consumption behavior.

The genetically modified salmon, called AquAdvantage, has been implemented with genetic material from an eel-like species called ocean pout that grows all year round. The splice in genetic makeup allows the salmon to reach full size in 18 months. Being genetically modified, the GM salmon is sterile, and hopes to offer a safe way to breed in fish farms without the threat to the refined genes to become integrated into the ecological gene pool.'

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