Wild fish stocks safety questioned if GE salmon egg hatchery gets go ahead

If the new GE salmon egg hatchery is approved by Environment Canada, they are unsure if wild stocks can be protected. This admission was outlined in internal records could stymie efforts by American company AquaBounty Technologies to produce and sell the first GE animal that people can eat. In the internal report that was released under the access to information law that was prepared last year, Environment Canada concluded that the narrower oversight option while “easily enforceable by inspecting shipments at the port of export” in Canada “falls short” of meeting Canada’s legal obligations under Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) “because it does not fully consider potential effects within Canada.” Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.