Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. Millions of modified fish have escaped into the Atlantic from offshore farms in Europe and America. And the new strains are mating with wild salmon, polluting their gene pool and producing hybrids that can't survive in the open ocean. There's certainly a link between the decline of our wild salmon and the escape of these farm-bred fish. They are kept in huge pens in the open ocean off the coast of New Brunswick and the coast of Maine in the States.
Wild salmon are muscular and built to make a long voyage into the ocean and back.
But over the longer term the farm fish can't survive in the ocean and neither can the offspring of wild salmon and farm fish. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is compiled for educational use only.