Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling people, although Qin Shiou was a little annoyed by these people, he still took them to the fishing ground, after all, this is a guest of the Fisheries Department, and it is also a guest of their Newfoundland Fishery Alliance.

The water quality of the Daqin Fishery attracted these people for the first time, and they praised each other on the boat, and the boat drove to the dock, and the shallow water area went forward, the water quality was clear and the sun was shining, and you could see the dense seaweed on the bottom of the water, like a grassland.

Tai Li asked with great interest: "Qin, the growth of aquatic plants and seaweed in your fishing grounds is really good, what kind of plants are you growing?" How do you usually manage it, can you tell me some secrets? ”

Qin Shiou shrugged his shoulders and looked helpless, and said: "You may also know that my fishing farm invited Professor Sanders to do technical guidance, and all of this was done under his guidance, so I can't help it." ”

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

Hearing the technician praise Professor Sanders like this, ABTX's chief technologist Bledsoe was a little unhappy and said: "Professor Sanders does have some strength in the traditional breeding industry, but in the new era of genetically modified technology, the ability is lacking. ”

The technician didn't respond, he should know who Professor Bledsoe was, and with a dry laugh, he honestly shut his mouth and left the docks.

Qin Shiou felt that Bledsoe was a little too cautious, Professor Sanders's ability he understood, the old professor was not only great in knowledge, but also in his personality, and from him he could indeed see the quality 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. It's called the art of slaying dragons in the air, this is a story, about someone who learned the superb ability to slay dragons, but there are no dragons in the world at all, so no matter how superb his ability to slay dragons, what is the use? ”

Bledsoe is highly intelligent. I immediately understood the meaning of his words, and said a little angrily: "Mr. Qin, do you think genetically modified technology is useless?" This is the most promising technology in the 21st century, and the emergence of this technology has allowed mankind to take at least a big step forward in the civilized world! ”

Qin Shiou smiled teasingly and said: "We also have a saying in China, which is called that it is easy to pull eggs when you take a big step, so it is better for human beings to take small steps in the civilized world." ”

Bledsoe looked at him straight for a moment and said, "I think." Mr. Qin doesn't want to breed water-quality salmon, does he? ”

Qin Shiou shrugged and smiled: "Of course, my fishing grounds are stocked with a lot of salmon, and they grow very well, I don't want to add competitors to them." ”

As he spoke, he used his Poseidon consciousness to find a group of Atlantic salmon, controlled them to surface and swayed left and right, revealing their fat and plump bodies, and deliberately let them show off their might on the water.

Quentin Statham came up to play the round. 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." It is not possible to complete the reproduction of this fish. ”

Atlantic salmon is divided into two types, terrestrial and migratory, the former lives in freshwater waters throughout its life, and its original habitat is the northern Atlantic, that is, northeastern North America, the British Isles, and the coast of Scandinavia in Europe.

Land-based 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, and there are some in Shenbao Lake, which is quite precious freshwater fish.

But more often than not, it's the migratory Atlantic salmon, which is farmed in fisheries. This fish grows in the river and grows in the sea, hatches and returns to the freshwater river, and then grows in the sea, and the mother body used by the water salmon is them.

Qin Shiou just doesn't want to breed genetically modified Atlantic salmon, what's the use of growing big? The uncertainty is too great that if these salmon thrive in the fishing grounds, it could even lead to the extinction of the original Atlantic salmon – according to studies, the king salmon are far more viable in the wild than the common Atlantic salmon.

"No, you're too worried, all of our fry are treated and are parthenogenesis, so they don't need to go into freshwater to breed," Bledsoe said. ”

Indeed, the FDA approved the sale of the genetically modified salmon only if ABTX required all genetically modified salmon to be genetically treated to create parthenogenes and sterility 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, and who knows what accidents will arise in the state of nature? And, who can be sure that these fish are really gene-edited for reproduction? What if several of them still have the ability to reproduce?

If the FDA and the U.S. government really weren't worried about the salmon, they should be allowed to farm it in the U.S., rather than just allowing the adults to be produced in Panama and the eggs to be made in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.

For 20 years, the fish has only been allowed to be farmed in the hapless city of Panama, and because of the size of the Panamanian fishery, ABTX can only produce a maximum of about 100 tons of salmon per year, a very small number compared to the 200,000 tons of Atlantic salmon imported by the United States each year.

ABTX has been working tirelessly to legalize genetically modified fish in order to gain a larger share of the Atlantic salmon market, and the FDA approved the market access for the salmon a year ago, and they are only now coming to Canada because they have just persuaded Canada to add a large farm.

As for the continental United States? The FDA and the Department of Fisheries prohibit farms from farming genetically modified salmon, and in their environmental impact assessment report for GM salmon, they require that salmon be produced and processed "outside the United States" so that the threat to the U.S. environment is minimized.

This is also a reason for Qin Shiou's dissatisfaction, the Yankees are calculating, what is the difference between this and dumping e-waste in other countries? Genetically modified salmon are farmed in foreign countries, processed in foreign countries, and finally enter the United States only for fish, and even if there is a problem, one removal from the shelves can solve all the problems and will not pose a threat to their biological chain.

But what about Canada? The FDA lacks environmental risk assessments for Canada and Panama and considers that the chances of salmon escaping are very small due to the protection of land-based facilities in Panama and Canada, and therefore have no environmental impact in the United States.

There are some things that the more you know, the more disgusting it becomes, but the cats in the salmon all over North America know that Qin Shiou doesn't believe that anyone is willing to take the risk of breeding this fish. If the major supermarkets and fish markets were open to its access, it would be okay to allow market access, and now it is the government that allows market access, and the government will not buy fish, so a fool will raise this kind of fish. (To be continued......)