Word: triploids
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...farmed, fish are not subject to continuous government inspection. About eight therapeutant drugs and some 30 other chemicals are allowed in the cultivation of fish, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and antibiotics are used extensively even in the genetic restructuring of some species. For instance, the triploid oyster, still in the experimental phase, is rendered sterile with antibiotics and thus does not go through an uneatable mating phase; it is harvestable all year. On the other hand, wild fish are vulnerable to parasites, PCBs and a host of other pollutants...
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