Super salmon or 'Frankenfish'? anyone see this on the news?

Legend60 · **Joined:** Sat Dec 25, 2010 4:07 pm **Posts:** 123

anyone catch this on news last night? pretty amazing,interesting yet frightening at same time, For the first time a news group was allowed into the fishery located in the jungles of Panama somewhere (they wouldnt disclose) and to report on the engineered fish

check out the photo you gotta see of the size difference between a natural fish and this engineered one at the same age wow!! big difference,probably be good for us fishermen like us though means bigger/stronger fish..lol

anyhow you really oughta check this out

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39265727/ns ... da-decide/

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Stoty · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:47 pm **Posts:** 200

Yikes!
I'm not too sure about genetically altered animals..... plants are one thing....

Moosebunk · **Joined:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:15 pm **Posts:** 42

Microbiology waaay over my head.

"Whether the public will have an appetite for it is another matter?"

Natural vs Unnatural diet? Heck, most consume and breathe so much altered crap nowadays anyway, super salmon should still be deemed pretty good for ya. lol.

steve-hamilton · **Joined:** Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:40 am **Posts:** 1776

Background: Chinook

Foreground: Atlantic

looks about right.

polliwogg · **Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:26 pm

I saw this about 10-15-20 years ago but I think it was a chinook that would go over 100lb. They were going to put them in L.O. Hard on the tourist industry when people when swimmers get eaten by salmon, wait for the movie. DO-DUM _____DODUM _______DUDOM__DODUM_DODUM

Stoty · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:47 pm **Posts:** 200

Isn't the picture of two Atlantic's?

Quote under it says "A genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon (background) alongside an Atlantic salmon of the same age (foreground)."

steve-hamilton · **Joined:** Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:40 am **Posts:** 1776

well, not two atlantics, one is a aquaadvantage salmon.

but in REALITY, based on the growth, you can easily show an atlantic and a chinook, same age, apples to apples, and they would exhibit that difference in size.

Stoty · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:47 pm **Posts:** 200

I guess that's why they put the growth hormone of the Chinook into the Atlantic.... lol

myot · **Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:36 pm

So its kind of like giving that pensilnecked geek in highschool a few cycles of good steriods

Jeremy Green · **Joined:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:28 pm **Posts:** 213

a Triploid fish of any species is able to be produce without modifying any part of the DNA,

these triploid fish are created by destroying the reproductive parts of the fish, it has no ambition to ever reproduce and puts all its energy to just growing.
aside from eating nearly double what its natural brother or sister, it would have no adverse side effects on the wild salmon populations, and you would almost never see the fish on a migratory run up river.
these fish tend to live a few years longer than their natural migrating brother or sisters.

a triploid chinook salmon could possibly reach the 100 pound mark.

~Jeremy

walleye5 · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:07 pm **Posts:** 37

lake diefenbaker in sask. has triploid rainbows that grow to 60 plus pounds. I know the brothers that currently hold a record 62 lb. one. WE HAVE HAD LARGE ONES ON THERE but lost them. I fish there as my friend lives out there and there is a huge fish farm on the lake. tons of rainbows. I myself dont agree with stocking such fish but fish farming is ok. imagine the bait they need to survive. mmm triploid walleye. thats a thought.

Gone Fish'in · **Joined:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:42 am **Posts:** 1047

steve-hamilton wrote:

Background: WalleyeWonder

Foreground: Gone Fish'in

looks about right.

Fixed....

steve-hamilton · **Joined:** Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:40 am **Posts:** 1776

hahahahah, nice.

Maple · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 9:44 am

This is old news.

These fish have been around for over a decade. The main Aquabounty facility is in Prince Edward Island, which I toured many years ago to investigate the procedure. They are intended to be raised under land-based conditions for human consumption.

Being sterile, they are big, and there's no reproduction for a number of reasons. There's no need for addition of growth hormones in culture, as metabolically, they make more efficient use of supplied nutrients.

Canadian application for approval of their distribution was protested in the spring of 2011 by a handfull of animal rights people. Their release is still to be approved by the FDA, which will happen eventually.

I'm sure they're delicious.

http://www.aquabounty.com/products/products-295.aspx

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