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Aquaculture of salmon

Frankenfish (genetically modified salmon) comes alive!

Environment

A genetically modified Atlantic salmon may soon be available in supermarkets. The company behind it insists it’s more environmentally sustainable.

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Schooling Salmon

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Protecting Pacific Salmon

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Salmon Farming: The Down Side

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Trouble in the Hatcheries?

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Fishy Tale

Farm fed or wild? Transgenic or unmodified? “Four Fish” author Paul Greenberg says that though the government may approve AquaBounty’s genetically modified salmon, it is failing to protect the environment for wild salmon stocks.

Good Fish, Bad Fish

Farmed salmon have long been on the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s list of fish to avoid. But now, a new fish-farming operation is claiming to have cleaned up the way that salmon are farmed.

Sacramento Salmon Crash

Less than a third of the King Salmon native to the Sacramento River in California made it home to spawn last spring, so fisheries managers are looking at canceling this year’s season.

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Debate Over Farmed Salmon Grows

Don Genova reports the controversy over salmon raised in ocean pens in British Columbia has grown beyond environmentalists and Native tribes to researchers and, now, consumers. Restaurants are changing their menus and the debate is spreading south into the United States.

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Salmon Farming

Many critics of ocean fish pens continue to raise concerns about pollution from fish waste, disease, and fish escapes. But the public is eating more farmed fish than ever and British Columbia is set to lift a seven year ban on new fish farms. Cheryl Colopy reports.