Thursday, October 27, 2011

New Brunswick's Salmon farming industry opposed to GM fish

The opposition of the aquaculture industry to genetically modified salmon is continuing, New Brunswick's Salmon farming industry has come out and said "Our position is very clear, short and simple we do not support the commercial production of genetically modified salmon," said Nell Halse, chairwoman of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association. She went on to say "We wouldn't even entertain changing that position unless two things happen: The regulatory bodies would have to declare it a safe product we don't have that today and second is that there would have to be market demand, and we don't have that today, for sure." Read more ...

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