The AquAdvantage salmon, reared from the eggs of wild Atlantic salmon, sports some extra genes from the Pacific Chinook salmon and an eel, the ocean pout.
Samples in 1999 from fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River's Hanford Reach show that four-fifths of the females spawning there apparently began life as males.
The Delta is a tidal estuary, with changing salinity that has produced a diverse ecosystem including the Delta smelt, a small fish found only there, and the Chinook salmon.
Though poor ocean conditions have been blamed for a nosedive in chinook salmon in Alaska this year, sockeye have done well, not only in the Columbia, but in Canadian and Alaskan rivers as well.
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It is a fast-growing North Atlantic salmon that contains a new Chinook salmon growth hormone gene and a DNA regulatory sequence that keeps the gene turned on all year instead of only during the warmer months, as in nature.
The AquAdvantage salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies of Massachusetts an Atlantic salmon modified with a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon so it grows to maturity faster had been winding its way through the federal approval process for 17 years.
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Head to Chinook's at Salmon Bay, about a mile from Ballard Locks, for everything under the sea: Dungeness crab, prawns, oysters, mussels, calamari, clams, and of course, salmon.
The finding could provide an important clue in sorting through the complex reasons for the general decline of Northwest salmon runs, although the Hanford's wild fall chinook run is among the healthiest.
Although the 668, 000 chinook caught off Oregon and California in 2005 contributed less than 1% to America's salmon consumption last year, the council's decision is bad news for the 1, 200 or so fishing vessels along the west coast, and for their small ports.
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