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Science 13 September 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5588, pp. 1797 - 1799
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5588.1797
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TRANSGENIC SPECIES:
Engineered Fish: Friend or Foe of the Environment?

Erik Stokstad

With the world's fish consumption rising, transgenic fish might alleviate pressure on wild stocks. But researchers worry that genetically engineered fish, if they escaped, could wreak ecological havoc. Most scientists say they simply don't yet understand enough about the potential ecological impacts to approve of raising even sterile transgenic fish in the seas, as some producers propose.

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