One Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty-Eight. Firmly Refused

Although Qin Shiou was a little annoyed by the smiling people, he took them to the fishing ground. After all, they were guests of the Ministry of Fisheries and their Newfoundland Fisheries Alliance.

The water quality of the Daqin Fishing Ground immediately attracted these people. They praised it on board the boat. When the boat arrived at the pier, the shallow water was clear and sunny. grassland.

Tai Li asked enthusiastically: "Qin, the aquatic plants and seaweeds in your fishing ground are growing really well. What kind of plants are you planting? How are you managing them? Can you tell me some secrets?"

Qin Shiou shrugged helplessly, and said, "Maybe you also know that my fish farm invited Professor Saunders as a technical guide. All of this was done under his guidance, so I can't help."

Immediately, a technician nodded and said: "Professor Sanders is a leading figure in Canadian marine biology. I didn't expect Mr. Qin to hire him. This is really amazing. As far as I know, many large biological companies have not hired him." .”

Literati look down on each other, and the same is true for scientists. As the saying goes, there is no first in literature, and there is no second in science. Hearing this technician's praise of Professor Sanders, Bledsoe, the chief technical expert of abtx company, was a little unhappy, and said: "Sander Professor Si does have some strength in the traditional breeding industry, but he lacks in ability in the new era of genetically modified technology."

The technician didn't respond, he should know who Professor Bledsoe is, he smiled dryly, shut his mouth honestly and left the pier.

Qin Shiou felt that Bledsoe was a little too narrow-minded. He knew Professor Sanders' ability. The old professor was not only great in knowledge, but also in his personality. From him, he could indeed see the quality of Taishan Beidou in the scientific world.

In addition, he didn’t like the genetically modified technology, so he said: “There is a saying in China, it’s called the art of slaying dragons, and this is a story about someone who learned the superb skill of slaying dragons, but there are no dragons in the world. So no matter how superb his dragon slaying ability is, what's the use of it?"

Bledsoe, with a 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 , Let mankind at least take a big step forward in the civilized world!"

Qin Shiou smiled teasingly and said: "There is a saying in China that it is easy to tear your eggs when you take big steps. Therefore, it is better for human beings to take small steps in the civilized world."

Bledsoe looked at him straight for a while, and said, "I think Mr. Qin doesn't want to raise Shuiyou salmon, does he?"

Qin Shiou shrugged and said with a smile: "Of course, my fishing ground stocked a lot of salmon.

And they grow great, I don't want to add competition to them. "

As he said that, he found a group of Atlantic salmon with his sea god consciousness, and controlled them to surface and swing left and right, revealing their fat and plump bodies, deliberately letting them show off their might on the water.

Quentin Statham came up to smooth things over. He 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 ground, and it is impossible to complete the reproduction of this kind of fish."

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

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

But more are migratory Atlantic salmon, that is, the kind raised in fisheries. This kind of fish grows in rivers and seas. Hatching must return to the freshwater river, and then grow in the sea. The mother body used by Shuiyou salmon is them.

Qin Shiou just doesn't want to breed genetically modified Atlantic salmon. What's the use of growing big? There is so much uncertainty that if these salmon were to multiply in the fishery, it could even be the cause of the extinction of the original Atlantic salmon -- according to the study. Atlantic salmon with king salmon are much better at surviving in the wild than common Atlantic salmon.

Bledsoe said: "No, you don't worry too much. All our fry are processed and are parthenosterile. They don't need to go into freshwater to reproduce."

Indeed, the prerequisite for the FDA to approve the sale of this genetically modified salmon is to require abtx to conduct genetic processing on all genetically modified salmon, resulting in parthenogenesis and sterility, so as to prevent them from accidentally mating with wild salmon and contaminating the genes of wild populations.

However, the mystery of genes is beyond the control of human beings so far. Who knows what accidents will happen in the natural state? And, who can be sure that these fish are actually genetically edited for reproduction? What if some of them still have the ability to reproduce?

If the FDA and the U.S. government are really not worried about this kind of high-quality salmon, they should be allowed to farm in the U.S. instead of only allowing adult fish to be produced in Panama and fish eggs to be produced in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

So far, for twenty years, this fish has only been allowed to be farmed in the unlucky Panama, and because of the size of the Panama fishery, abtx can only produce about 100 tons of salmon a year at most, compared to the 200,000 tons of Atlantic salmon imported by the United States every year , this number is very small.

In order to gain more market share in the Atlantic salmon market, abtx has been sparing no effort to promote the legalization of genetically modified fish. The FDA passed the market access review for Shuiyou salmon a year ago. The reason why they only came to Canada now is that Because Canada has just been persuaded to add a large farm.

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

This is also one of the reasons for Qin Shiou's dissatisfaction. Yankees are easy to calculate. What is the difference between this and dumping electronic waste in other countries? Genetically modified salmon are farmed and processed in foreign countries, and only the fish meat enters the United States in the end. Even if there is a problem, all the problems can be solved by removing it from the shelves, and will not pose a threat to their biological chain.

But what about Canada? FDA lacks an environmental risk assessment for Canada and Panama, and believes that due to the protection of land facilities in Panama and Canada, the chance of salmon escaping is very small, so it will not affect the US environment.

Some things really get more disgusting the more you know, but all North American fishermen know the trickiness of Shuiyou salmon. Qin Shiou doesn't believe that anyone is willing to take the risk to raise this kind of fish. It would be okay if all major supermarkets and fish markets were open to it. Now it is the government that allows market access, and the government will not buy fish. Only fools will raise this kind of fish. (To be continued.)

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