Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Farm salmon pose clear reproductive threat to wild gene pools

Farm salmon pose clear reproductive threat to wild gene pools - University of East Anglia (UEA)

 Farmed salmon show full reproductive potential to invade wild gene pools and should be sterilised - according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

This is particularly interesting the light of the recent escape of some 230,000 farmed Salmon in Bantry Bay.

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