[ShareTompkins] “What Will The World Inherit From GE Salmon?”

[A Wilson]

Independent Science News has just published “What Will The World  
Inherit From GE Salmon?” by Dr. Gerry Goeden.

Article Synopsis: Ten percent of Norwegian salmon rivers no longer  
have any wild salmon populations, and Norwegian wild salmon as a whole  
have declined by 80% since the 1970s. This disappearance of wild  
salmon is not limited to Norway, it is a global phenomenon. The  
explanation is not only the standard one of overfishing. Instead, it  
is primarily a consequence of the escape in massive numbers of salmon  
from fish farms. These escapees are artificially boosting official  
estimates of wild populations but at the same time are chauffeuring  
wild salmon populations to extinction. The mechanism is that well-fed  
but genetically uniform and ultimately maladapted farmed fish are  
mating with wild fish and swamping the native gene pools. Canada and  
AquaBounty have well advanced plans for a GE salmon to enter the  
market. What would be the impact of GE salmon on wild populations?

Dr. Goeden, a marine biologist, succinctly summarizes the scientific  
issues behind a little known yet major threat to wild fisheries. His  
analysis raises many vital ecological and social questions: What  
implications does the salmon research have for other farmed and non- 
farmed fish? What would be the impact on food security and human  
health of a world empty of wild salmon? With the elimination of wild  
salmon, who would control the world’s supply of salmon?

Read Dr. Goeden’s full article at: http://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/what-will-the-world-inherit-from-ge-salmon/

For more on GE Salmon see:

The AquaBounty Salmon: Will the World’s First Commercial GE Animal Be  
an Albatross? (ISN 2010)

Genetically Engineered Salmon: Deficient, Deformed, and Dangerous to  
You and the Environment (Food and Water Watch, 2013)

Center For Food safety: GE Fish



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Apologies for cross-posting

Allison Wilson, PhD
Science Director
The Bioscience Resource Project

phone: 1 (607) 319 0279
a.wilson at bioscienceresource.org
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