Golden Fishery

   Reached out and didn't hit the smiling people. Although Qin Shiou was a little annoyed with these people, he still took them to the fishing ground. After all, this was a guest of the Department of Fisheries and a guest of their Newfoundland Fisheries Union.

The water quality of Daqin Fishing Ground attracted these people for the first time. They praised them on the boat. The boat drove to the pier and walked forward to the shallow water area. The water quality was clear and the sun was shining. Grassland.

  Tali asked enthusiastically: "Qin, the growth of the aquatic plants and seaweeds in your fishery is really good. What kind of plants are you planting? How do you usually manage them? Can you tell me some secrets?"

  Qin Shiou shrugged and looked helpless, and said: "Maybe you know that my fishery hired Professor Sanders to do technical guidance. All this was done under his guidance, so I can't help."

A technician immediately nodded and said, "Professor Sanders is a leading figure in Canadian marine biology. I didn’t expect Mr. Qin to invite him. This is really amazing. As far as I know, many large biological companies don’t invite him. ."

Literati are lesser than scholars, and so are scientists. As the saying goes, literature is not the first and science is no second. Hearing this technician praise Professor Sanders like this, Bledsoe, ABTX’s chief technical expert, was a little unhappy, and said: “Sund Professor Si does have some strength in the traditional breeding industry, but in the new era of genetically modified technology, his ability is lacking."

  The technician didn't respond. He should know who Professor Bledsoe was, and he closed his mouth and left the dock with a dry smile.

  Qin Shiou felt that Bledsoe was a little too cautious. He understood the abilities of Professor Sanders. The old professor was not only knowledgeable. As well as his personality, he can indeed see the qualities of Taishan Beidou in the scientific world.

In addition, he did not have a good impression of genetically modified technology, so he said: "We have a saying in China, called the art of slaying dragons in emptiness. This is a story about someone who has learned the superb skill of slaying dragons, but there are no dragons in the world. So his ability to slay dragons is superb. What's the use?"

Bledsoe's high IQ suddenly understood what he meant, and said angrily: "Mr. Qin, do you think genetically modified technology is useless? This is the most promising technology in the 21st century. The emergence of this technology , So that mankind has at least taken a big step forward in a civilized world!"

  Qin Shiou smiled teasingly and said: “We in China have a saying, it’s easy to pull eggs when one step is too big. Therefore, it is better for human beings to take small steps in a civilized world.”

   Bledsoe looked at him straight for a while, and said, “I think Mr. Qin doesn’t want to breed Shuiyu salmon?”

  Qin Shiou shrugged and smiled: “Of course, my fishery stocks a lot of salmon, and they grow very well. I don’t want to add competitors to them.”

  Speaking, he used Poseidon consciousness to find a group of Atlantic salmon. Control them to emerge from the water and swing left and right, exposing their plump and plump bodies, and deliberately let them show off on the water.

  Quentin Statham came up to round up the field and said with a smile: "Of course Qin doesn't want to raise this kind of fish, because there is no large river near his fishing grounds, so he can't breed this kind of fish."

  Atlantic salmon is divided into two types, land-swimming type and migratory type. The former lives in freshwater waters for life. The original habitat is the northern Atlantic Ocean, namely northeastern North America, the British Isles, and the coast of Scandinavia in Europe.

  The land-swimming Atlantic salmon is a relatively stable genetic variability. A world-wide farmed fish with high nutritional value. It is rich in protein and polyunsaturated fatty acids, and has a good therapeutic effect. There are some in Lake Shenbao, which are quite precious freshwater fish.

  But more are migratory Atlantic salmon. That is, this kind of fish is raised in the fishery. This kind of fish grows in the river and grows in the sea. The hatching needs to return to the freshwater river, and then to grow in the sea, and the mothers used by the aquatic salmon are them.

  Qin Shiou just doesn’t want to breed genetically modified Atlantic salmon. What's the use of growing up? The uncertainty is too great. If these salmon multiply in the fishing grounds, it may even cause the extinction of primitive Atlantic salmon. According to research, Atlantic salmon with king salmon is far more viable in the wild than ordinary Atlantic salmon. .

   Bledsoe said: "No, you are worrying too much. All of our fry have been processed and are partheno-infertile. They do not need to enter freshwater to breed."

  Indeed, the prerequisite for the FDA to approve the sale of this genetically modified salmon is to require ABTX to genetically process all genetically modified salmon, causing parthenosexual and sterile conditions to prevent them from accidentally mating with wild salmon and contaminating wild population genes.

  However, the mystery of genes is beyond human control so far. Who knows what accidents will happen in the natural state? Moreover, who can be sure that these fish are indeed gene-edited in terms of reproduction? What if a few of them still have the ability to reproduce?

  If the FDA and the U.S. government really don’t worry about this kind of water-quality salmon, they should be allowed to farm in the United States instead of only allowing adult fish to be produced in Panama and the roe to be manufactured in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

So far, for two decades, this fish has only been allowed to be farmed in the hapless Panama. Because of the scale of the Panamanian fishery, ABTX can only produce about 100 tons of salmon each year, compared to the 200,000 tons of Atlantic salmon imported by the United States each year. , This number is very small.

ABTX has been sparing no effort to promote the legalization of genetically modified fish in order to gain more share in the Atlantic salmon market. The FDA passed the market access review for water-quality salmon a year ago. The reason why they have only come to Canada now, It is because Canada has just been persuaded to add a large-scale breeding farm.

  As for the continental United States? The FDA and the Department of Fisheries prohibit the farming of genetically modified salmon. In their environmental assessment report on genetically modified salmon, they require salmon to be produced and processed "outside the United States" so that the threat to the US environment will be minimized.

  This is also one of the reasons for Qin Shiou’s dissatisfaction. The Yankees are good at calculating. What is the difference between this and dumping e-waste in other countries? Genetically modified salmon are cultivated and processed in foreign countries, and the only thing that finally enters the United States is fish meat. Even if there is a problem, a single removal can solve all the problems and will not pose a threat to their biological chain.

   But what about Canada? The FDA lacks an environmental risk assessment of Canada and Panama, and believes that because of the protection and obstruction of the land facilities in Panama and Canada, the chance of salmon escape is very small, so it will not have an impact on the US environment.

  Some things are really disgusting the more you know, but all the fishermen in North America know that the tricky salmon is. Qin Shiou does not believe that anyone is willing to take the risk to breed this fish. If all major supermarkets and fish markets are open to its access, it is okay for the government to allow market access, and the government will not buy fish, so fools will raise this fish. (To be continued~^~)