![]() While some of the most damaging forms of industrial fishing have been outlawed over the years, a combination of continued overfishing, habitat destruction, and warming oceans has dramatically reduced salmon populations. Open-ocean fishing for wild species is no longer sustainable it hasn’t been for a long time. And they could offer a way out of the deadly spiral of overfishing that is decimating wild fish stocks. Those salmon, grown and marketed by a company called AquaBounty Technologies that was founded by Entis, could be coming to U.S. The result was a genetically engineered superfish that grew nearly twice as fast, on less food, than conventional salmon. ![]() This genetic code acts like an “on” switch to activate the growth hormone. ![]() They had also figured out a way to add a growth hormone from Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), plus a fragment of DNA from the ocean pout ( Zoarces americanus), an eel-like creature that inhabits the chilly depths off the coast of New England and eastern Canada. Fletcher and Hew, it turned out, had not just been putting antifreeze proteins into Atlantic salmon.
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