AQUATIC TERMINATORS

A troubling new study from the National Academy of Sciences indicates that genetically engineered salmon will not only consume all the food needed by other species of salmon, but will even gobble up members of their own schools. Scientists documented inter-fish relations between genetically engineered (GE) salmon and normal coho salmon in closed tanks with varying levels of food input. Total war erupted, as the frankenfish gobbled up all the food and then started attacking each other. At study's end, there were only one or two GE fish left in tanks that originally held 50 fish. The GE mutants were engineered to grow twice as fast as normal salmon, but in the gene-splicing process, it seems their drive for food and aggressiveness have also increased. The GE fish would ostensibly be raised in enclosed nets on salmon farms on the coasts, but there is great concern for what could happen when these GE salmon escape from their pens. As a note, hundreds of thousands of factory farmed salmon have escaped into the wild in the Northwest, just in the past few years, when floating pens were torn apart by storms or sea lions.

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