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Timo
20-09-2007, 11:43 AM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00209/Salmon_209684a.jpg

Great salmon escape could turn wild fish into ‘couch potatoes’.

They are an identical species, but while one is lean and incredibly fit, the SAS of the fish world, the other is an obese, idle creature, a couch potato with fins. When the two interbreed, the results can be a genetic disaster.

Such a disaster looms, according to experts, after the escape of more than 100,000 farmed Atlantic salmon over the past six months on the West Coast.

Full storey by Melanie Reid;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2477632.ece

Ian
20-09-2007, 11:51 AM
brilliant! lazy fish! ha ha