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Recent Articles
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Center for Food Safety: Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful (5th November 2020)
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FoE: Largest U.S. Retailers Reject Genetically Engineered Salmon Ahead of Potential First U.S. Sales (1st September 2020)
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CBAN: GE Fish
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SeekingAlpha: Intrexon: The Public Markets' Theranos, Parts 2-8 (27th April 2016)
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Center for Food Safety: Lawsuit Challenges FDA's Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon (31st March 2016)
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FDA: FDA takes several actions involving genetically engineered plants and animals for food (19th November 2015)
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AquaBounty Technologies ("AquaBounty Technologies: Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 December 2014 and Notification of AGM (25th February 2015)
Reports that during the 2014/15, Aquabounty expanded its international commercial efforts with the commencement of the process to gain approval for the importation of its GM salmon eggs for local field trials in Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and China (in addition to its current site in Panama).
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EcoJustice: Environmental groups take federal government to court for permitting manufacture of genetically modified salmon in Canada (20th January 2014)
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Canada Gazette: Significant New Activity Notice No. 16528 (23rd November 2013)
Approval for commercial production of AquaBounty's GM salmon eggs on Prince Edward Island.
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada: SUMMARY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND INDIRECT HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF AQUADVANTAGE SALMON (23rd November 2013)
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Food and Water Watch: GE Salmon Growing in the Dark in South Dakota (25th October 2013)
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Food&WaterWatch: Response to FDA consultation on AquaBounty's GM salmon (26th April 2013)
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PR Watch: FDA Ready to Approve Frankenfish Despite Fishy Science (19th March 2013)
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Norwegian Develoment Fund: Genetically Engineered Salmon Fast-Growing Hype (30th January 2013)
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Norwegian Development Fund: Genetically modified salmon - a fast growing hype (29th January 2013)
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Friends of the Earth: "Fatally flawed" FDA assessment to unleash genetically engineered salmon (21st December 2012)
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Center for Food Safety: Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forward With GE Salmon Approval (21st December 2012)
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Friends of the Earth Press Release: Major U.S. Environmental Groups Call for Full Environmental Review of Genetically Engineered Salmon (8th November 2010)
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Letter to FDA from US environmental groups (8th November 2010)
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Center for Food Safety (US): GM fish
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Canadian Biotechnology Action Network: Biotech gets fishy with GM salmon (October 2010)
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Alaska legislators letter to FDA (1st October)
Legislators in Alaska warn the FDA that "There is a very real fear that genetically modified salmon could wreak havoc on populations of wild salmon". They are also concerned about potential negative effects on the Alaskan economy, potential risks to public health and lack of rigorous scientific scrutiny.
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Oslo & Paris Convention (OSPAR): Background document for Atlantic salmon (2010)
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ICSF Report: Aquaculture and its genetic resources (December 2009)
Includes sections on GM fish.
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Le Curieux-Belfond et al. (2008) Factors to consider before production and commercialization of aquatic genetically modified organisms
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North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO): Williamsburg Declaration
NASCO states: "In view of the current lack of scientific knowledge on the impact of transgenic salmonids on wild salmon stocks, the use of transgenic salmonids should be considered a high-risk activity. There should be a strong presumption against any such use".
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Dunham (2004) Status of genetically modified (transgenic) fish
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WWF: The status of wild Atlantic salmon: a river-by-river assessment (May 2001)
