The use of sterile fish would prevent this situation. Triploidy, whereby the individual retains the genetic material using discarded during fertilisation, is the most feasible method to produce ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Upon an otherwise unruly landscape of choppy sea and craggy peaks, the salmon farms that dot many of Norway’s remote fjords impose a neat geometry. The ...

Interbreeding between escaped farmed salmon and their wild counterparts is a major headache for the aquaculture industry. Now Norwegian fish farming companies are raising one million sterile salmon in ...

Sometimes IDFG stocks sterile fish because it wants to have more control over the numbers of fish, so as to meet the fisheries management goals it has for that waterway. An example would be stocking ...

Editor’s Note: The video attached to this article was edited to correct a reference to Lake Austin. We regret the error. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The City of Austin is ...

A new technique for mass-producing sterile fish might one day be used to stop genetically modified fish breeding with each other or with their wild relatives, should they escape from fish farms. At ...

FROM Norway to Canada, farmed Atlantic salmon are escaping in such large numbers that they are a threat to the local salmon. This could be prevented by making the farmed fish sterile. But there is a ...

A PhD project has investigated the use of sterile salmon in aquaculture as a means to prevent escaped farmed salmon interbreeding with wild salmon. The study used a method known as triploidy to induce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The City of Austin is releasing 350 sterile grass carp into Lake Austin this week to help control the spread of ...

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