Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Salmon spawn baby trout

Just when you think you've seen it all. Japanese researchers have found a way to spawn baby trout from salmon. This could have applications for declining stocks of various fish species. Expect a lot of debate on the ethics of this science though.

Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish.

Link to story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_sc/trout_from_salmon