I took the "could" out of the headline. For the simple reason that "could" was included to quell fear.Or to create the perception that this threat will not come to pass. And that my friends is utter nonsense.We have already seen that GMO have posed a threat to our real world. Let me give you just one example, though there are more, this one will be plenty sufficient to make the point: SUPERWEEDS: A long predicted problem for GM crops is here After a decade of intensive genetically modified plant cultivation, weeds have emerged that are resistant to the most popular herbicide.Therefore, there is no reality in using the word "could" to describe the potential for threat. There is a guarantee that GM salmon will pose a threat.
A genetically modified salmon swims behind a non-genetically modified salmon. A new study is the first to show that GM fish that breed with other species have a competitive advantage over their parents.
Genetically modified Atlantic salmon that were cross-bred with wild brown trout had offspring that grew faster than the GM salmon, and outcompeted other fish for food, potentially posing a risk to wild fish species, a new study has found.
Therefore, these GM abominations will wipe out the wild fish. I am quite certain the GM company looks at this as beneficial. Think about it as wiping out your competition.
“Our results identify this new avenue for potential environmental impacts, and make it clear that extra vigilance might be required when producing GM species in areas where they could come into contact with closely related species,” said researcher Krista Oke, now a biology PhD student at McGill University. “It shows that there needs to be really stringent safeguards to ensure that GM fish are sterile and that they don’t escape.”
What this should show, very clearly is that this is a very bad idea.Brown trout is a species that sometimes breeds with salmon. While cross-breeding between salmon and trout occurs infrequently in the wild — at a rate of only about one per cent — previous studies have found that when farmed salmon escape from hatcheries or fish farms into the wild, the rate increases to as high as 41 per cent, the researchers said.“That’s important because if GM salmon were present in the wild, it would probably be because they had escaped from aquaculture,” Oke said. The researchers used GM salmon eggs and sperm, which had been engineered to grow quickly and exhibit risk-taking foraging behaviour, from the Prince Edward Island fish farm owned by AquaBounty Technologies Inc. It is the U.S. company seeking approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its fast-growing GM salmon.Related: Transgenic trout: Six pack abs and muscular shoulders