- Transgenic salmon do not grow larger than ordinary salmon, just faster. This allows fish farmers to be more productive, and use less feed per fish.
- Escaped farmed salmon (large fish) have been found to mate successfully only 3% as often as wild salmon.
- Transgenic salmon must be proven sterile before the FDA will approve their use.
- "Muir and Howard, the Purdue scientists who proposed the "Trojan Gene Hypothesis," did not study transgenic salmon. They designed a mathematical model based on the behavior of Japanese medaka, a small, freshwater fish that matures in 56 days and breeds daily until it dies. Salmon take three, five and even ten years to mature and most breed only once in their lifetimes. Sterile salmon do not breed at all." (Biotechnology Industry Organization, 2004)
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