What Will Happen When Genetically Engineered Salmon Escape Into the Wild?

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In late 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the greenlight to AquaBounty, Inc., a company poised to create, produce and market an entirely new type of salmon. By combining the genes from three different types of fish, AquaBounty has made a salmon that grows unnaturally fast, reaching adult size twice as fast as its wild relative.
Never before has a country allowed any type of genetically engineered animal to be sold as food. The U.S. is st In order to answer that question, we must first look back on how we as a nation arrived at this point. Historically, the U.S. has enjoyed a rich bounty of seafood from the ocean. When I lived in Alaska, I always loved the late summer months when wild salmon would fill the rivers, making their way to spawning grounds. Fresh, wild salmon filets were delicious and abundant. And they still are.
Unfortunately, outside of Alaska, our poor management of an enormous fishing industry and important habitat has depleted fish stocks all along our coasts. Salmon species, in particular, are sensitive to environmental changes. The development and industrialization of our coast has polluted and dammed the rivers they depend on to breed. Although salmon used to be abundant on both the east and west coasts, large, healthy populations of salmon now exist mostly in Alaska.
Instead of fixing the environmental problems we have created or investing in the protection and recovery of our existing wild salmon resources, some have decided to create a new, genetically engineered fish that brings a host of its own problems and further undermines the sustainability of our food supply.
The genetically engineered salmon that the FDA approved will undertake a journey that stretches halfway around the globe in order to arrive at your dinner table. AquaBounty plans to produce the salmon eggs in a lab on Prince Edward Island in Canada, fly them to Panama to be raised, slaughtered and filleted and then bring them back to the U.S. so they can be sold to your family. How many tons of greenhouse gases are emitted during that 5,000-mile trip?

http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/10/genetically-engineered-salmon-escape-wild/

 


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What will happen? About the same thing that happens when elk and red stag cross escape into the wild, like in Idaho a few years ago. We have not heard much. If money is involved we will likely hear nothing about the salmon again.
 

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What will happen? About the same thing that happens when elk and red stag cross escape into the wild, like in Idaho a few years ago. We have not heard much. If money is involved we will likely hear nothing about the salmon again.

Where at in Idaho. I will be there in October
 

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I think they tried to wipe them out. Ya, I would have shot one to. I don't remember the location, but I think it was a veterinarian who owned the operation. People were very concerned when it happened, but not a word since. Not that I am aware of anyway. I never did see any pictures, but I guess the whole idea was to increase antler size. It would be interesting to know what the result is today.
 


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Nothing will happen. Those super fast growing fish would have to catch enough food that doesn't want to be caught to sustain this double fast growth. They WON'T be able to do it and will die. They may last a year or two, but after that the wild type or natural salmon will take over. 'Course this is just my opinion.
 

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It's a Triploid fish. The same version of the rainbows that escaped into Lake Diefenbaker and allowed the Konrad twins to smash rainbow trout records left and right.
 

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If they can make it i certainly wouldn't be opposed to them putting the in Sakakawea.
 

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What will happen? About the same thing that happens when elk and red stag cross escape into the wild, like in Idaho a few years ago. We have not heard much. If money is involved we will likely hear nothing about the salmon again.

This sounds like a win for science. Seriously, sign me up!
 


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I think they will probably adapt and eventually mutate to have laser beams shooting out of their eye balls and grow bat like wings…subsequently rising to the top of the food chain and taking over the entire globe…or they might just die
 


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It's a Triploid fish. The same version of the rainbows that escaped into Lake Diefenbaker and allowed the Konrad twins to smash rainbow trout records left and right.

If that's the case they'd all be sterile. They could have an impact on the wild salmon as long as they live, competing for food and such.
 

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whatever on salmon ---- lets get some tigers stocked in DL. 2inches to 2 pounds in 6months. Floridian strain is just for the eatin --otherwise its nort nort
 

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http://billingsgazette.com/news/fea...cle_ddc83410-8ec0-5e01-9164-bd05b956f578.html

I think this is the escape I was thinking of.

There are a number of senarios with the trout One big problem is they could get on the spawning grounds and eggs could be sterile. That could knock the heck out of the wild population for many years. The wild gene pool could adsorb them with little affect, but always retain some genes. They could starve as said. They could outcompete natural trout. No one knows. It's Russian roulette.
 


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