- Trout Unlimited decries "genetically engineered" salmon (we reported on them a month ago): http://bit.ly/bh9X0y #
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In characteristic form I’m going to side with the Scientists.
The issue isn’t about wild salmon, the issue is about feeding humans. TU can froth about the indignity and potential damage to wild stocks, but they lack the budget and oversight to fix more than a couple of streams – and then only temporarily.
Reversing the decline of a watershed takes hundreds of years, and you cannot claim victory with a single year’s return that’s larger than the year prior. Restoration requires generations of oversight, not merely adding a few boulders or dumping a truckload of spawning gravel, and claiming “all better now.”
The amount of salmon consumed by the world’s population has been on a steady increase for many years, in part due to all the press associated with Omega-3′s and a series of kindred medical findings.
During the same time period wild salmon have been in steady decline worldwide, for a variety of reasons and many are merely conjecture. Under the circumstances, with restoration being some ways out (regardless of the inability of TU’s budget to handle more than a couple rivers – and then only marginally), restoration is not an option – given the double digit (12%) increase in salmon consumption worldwide.
The end result is preordained. Some amorphous blob of genetically altered stem cells grown in-vitro, never tasting salt water nor ever possessing fins, that Gorton’s will be laser-carving daily to restock fish sticks.
In between then and now, they’ll screw all manner of things – from fish borne viruses that infect wild fish via proximity to their penned cousins, genetically modified escapees that may be viable – and introduce foreign material into the wild DNA, and every other concievable means of damaging those few “real” fish that are left.
Under the circumstances I take a dim view of TU’s silly meddling, the issue is so much larger than them it’s a mockery, akin to my legislature burning daylight to ban swearing in grade schools …
kbarton10(Quote)
Right. Aside from yelping, TU’s got no power. The lady pushing a cart down the supermarket aisle has 100% of the power. I pay close attention to anyone who has 100% of anything.
Pete(Quote)
See, I can’t even tell anymore if this is satire or what.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Not so sure about satire anymore, not easy to tell in the USA, but it sure is entropy.
Pete(Quote)