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In reply to the discussion: FDA Quietly Pushes Through Genetically Modified Salmon over Christmas Break [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)I remember we had lost all the wild salmon up north they could not migrate for spawning and were very over fished in the sea. They removed some dams,release a lot of hatchlings and seemed to bring that resourse back.
What I wonder is the rapid hormone caused growth rate. Those fast grow salmon will eat more. I hope they don't take necessary food from another species.
Then they need plenty of fat reserves to migrate upstreams to spawn. What if they are to thin and die from lack of energy before they spawn.
It already seems like pen raised salmon have an anemic color and taste compaired to wild salmon.
This could be the same as releasing our domestic breeds of cows back into the wild. They would never make it in the wild due to the changes from breeding.