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Telegraph: The researchers fear that plans to farm a new type of GM salmon that grows faster than normal salmon may result in some of the animals escaping into streams and rivers.
They conducted a study to examine the impacts that such an escape would have on natural habitats.
They found that the GM salmon, which have been developed by a Canada firm and are expected to be given approval for sale as food in the US, could mate with wild brown trout.
This resulted in a "hybrid' species that grew faster......
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GM salmon can breed with trout and harm ecosystem, warn scientists
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 29th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation