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Greenpeace International  Genetically Engineered Fish - New
Threats to the Environment  Publication - 5 January, 2005 This
briefing examines the development of genetically engineered (GE)
fish, which could soon be produced on a commercial scale.
Download document  Executive summary: There are many GE fish
under development, often engineered with growth hormones to make
the GE fish grow faster enabling them to reach marketable size
at an earlier age. * There are numerous concerns over the
welfare and environmental impact of these unhealthy, fast
growing fish. * The techniques of producing GE fish are crude,
and generally involve the random insertion of DNA into the fish
genome.This process may disrupt the tightly controlled network
of DNA in the fish. Current understanding of the way in which
genes are regulated is extremely limited, and any change to the
DNA of an organism at any point may well have effects that are
impossible to predict or con