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Salmon with a Side of Genetic Modification: The FDA’s Approval of AquAdvantage Salmon and Why the Precautionary Principle is Essential for Biotechnology Regulation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Slyck, Van Kara, M. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | INTRODUCTION Over the last thirty years, once abundant wild salmon populations in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have declined to a mere fraction of their historic levels. As of 2016, salmon populations in Washington State’s Columbia River region are either failing to make any progress towards recovery or showing very little signs of improvement; Puget Sound salmon are only getting worse.1 In the Gulf of Maine, salmon populations dropped from five-hundred spawning adults in 1995 to less than fifty adults in 1999.2 Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, were first designated as “endangered”3 in November 2000—the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) expanded the listing nine years later to include critical habitat along the coast of Maine as a result of little improvement to the population’s numbers.4 In the Pacific Ocean, FWS classified four significant salmon species as endangered for protection under the Endangered Species Act |
| Starting Page | 311 |
| Ending Page | 311 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 41 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2451&context=sulr |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
