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...Pacific Northwest. Subsidized by the states of Oregon and Washington, the nine-hour trip costs only $44 for coach, and you can buy segments (Portland to Seattle costs $21). With current schedules, you need to stay overnight in Seattle, but that means you can sight-see and sample local salmon washed down by a tangy microbrew. You can bring your bike along, at least as far as the Canadian border, stowing it on one of the Cascades' bicycle racks ($5 extra; reserve ahead), so you can tool around cycle-friendly Portland or Seattle...
...SCARY SALMON...
Thanks for the story about genetically modified salmon [SCIENCE, March 6]. My family usually eats salmon every week, so we're accustomed to the seasonal taste and texture variations of wild salmon. Our experience with farm-raised salmon initially fooled us; the fish looks fine, but the meat is mushy and lacks flavor. Who's going to monitor the taste and nutritional value of factory fish? I hope the government will look very carefully into the aftereffects these transgenic fish may cause and the implications for the public, who will probably have little choice but to eat them. JOHN ANDERSON...
...this so-called blue revolution may not reach U.S. shores for a while. Although gene scientists in the U.S. have been tinkering with a variety of marine creatures--not only salmon and trout but also carp, catfish, tilapia and shrimp--these efforts are drawing criticism similar to that directed at genetically modified foods. Opponents, who complain about the fertilizers and other pollutants released into coastal waters by the fish farms, are especially concerned about the potential impact on the gene pool. They note that domesticated fish regularly escape from their pens into the wild and breed with native stocks, upsetting...
Fearing a consumer backlash, New Zealand King Salmon, a major producer of Chinook salmon--the largest Pacific salmon--announced last week that it was suspending its gene-modification experiments. Entis, by contrast, believes he can win acceptance of his supersalmon through public education. "We have to show we have nothing to hide," he says...