Forty years of farmed salmon ... and one genetic mystery
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 23:21
in Biology & Nature
It’s known that escaped fish from Norwegian salmon farms can interbreed with wild salmon, and thus must have changed the genetic and physical makeup of the country's famed wild salmon stocks. But how much? Biologists are trying to answer this question by breeding special fish families to determine the exact genetic differences between farmed and wild salmon stocks.