atlantic salmon
- n fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh
- n found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning
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- Tests show no signs of ISA virus in Washington’s salmon
Recent tests of salmon from Washington’s waters show no signs of a fish virus that can be deadly to farm-raised Atlantic salmon. Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus was not detected in tissue samples taken from more than 900 wild and hatchery-produced Pacific chinook, coho, sockeye, chum and steelhead, as well as farm-raised Atlantic salmon, according to a [...]
June 12, 2013 - Issaquah Press - Panama expects benefits from world's first GM salmon
Panama's researchers have played a key role in creating a rapidly growing salmon that may soon become the world's first commercially sold genetically modified (GM) animal. The US's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ruled the consumption of GM salmon to be as safe as conventional Atlantic salmon, and is now analyzing public comments on its environmental impact as the final part of the ...
June 11, 2013 - Environmental News Network - International Meeting in Ireland Fails to Prevent Escalating Salmon Fishery at Greenland
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) is disappointed that the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) has been unable to stop factory sales of wild Atlantic salmon in Greenland and has also failed to put a limit on Greenland’s subsistence fishery through negotiations held last week in Ireland. (PRWeb June 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6 ...
June 10, 2013 - PRWeb