[AnotherUnixGeek]

leave the freaking salmon alone, please.

Why the salmon in particular? We certainly haven't left the cattle, pigs or poultry alone - they've been genetically modified by us using artificial selection through all of man's recorded history.

Go engineer something useful.

This is useful. It could make cheap seafood and meat easily available to every person in the world eventually. Farming of genetically modified salmon would also mean an end to overfishing of wild salmon.

[the invisib1e hand]

This is useful. It could make cheap seafood and meat easily available to every person in the world eventually. Farming of genetically modified salmon would also mean an end to overfishing of wild salmon.

ummm...unhmm....so what? Is cheap seafood somekind of birthright? Most nations have more beaches than we do, and fishing traditions that go back millenia. And, what, we need "create" salmon for them?

You know what? The world has its head up its ass, that what. The "educated" world, that is.

[Smokin' Joe]

...they've been genetically modified by us using artificial selection through all of man's recorded history.

It is one thing to work with enhancing existing traits through interbreeding, another to create new traits in a lab. The natural combinations will work or not, but there may be unintended and undesireable consequences of direct genetic manipulation.