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Press Association: Farmed salmon should be sterilised to prevent them breeding with wild fish and introducing genetic weaknesses, experts have urged.
New research shows that while salmon bred in captivity for food consumption are genetically different from their wild relatives, they are just as fertile, potentially damaging wild populations if they escape and breed with them.
Millions of salmon escape from fish farms each year, and can get into wild spawning populations where they can reproduce and introduce......
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Sterilise farmed salmon to stop breeding with wild fish, researchers say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 10th, 2014
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