Cloning fish for aquaria trade

[Vitaliy]

YEP


what do u do for a living?

A bit random, heh, I am a college student majoring in history and philosophy as a minor.

 

[ewurm]

A bit random, heh, I am a college student majoring in history and philosophy as a minor.

Philosophy? Lots of money in that. You are an excellent candidate to post on this thread, however.

 

[davo]

if you were to buy land to raise Zebra Plecos, it would probably have to be in brazil.

yea and i think they have enough land use problems as it is at the moment, hence the MST, so i'll go for fish farms then. but spose if you did buy the land and got to the point where they wernt endangered in the wild then they wouldn't need the ban, but fish farms would be better for everyone i reckons.

 

[FlammingWoodChuck]

I think if we clone fish it should be more of food fish. Help Defeat World hunger

 

[ewurm]

yea and i think they have enough land use problems as it is at the moment, hence the MST, so i'll go for fish farms then. but spose if you did buy the land and got to the point where they wernt endangered in the wild then they wouldn't need the ban, but fish farms would be better for everyone i reckons.

The only problem with that is some fish, like the Zebra Pleco, are difficult to breed. This could make it financially impossible to farm them. Cloning may eventually be cheaper.

 

[ewurm]

I think if we clone fish it should be more of food fish. Help Defeat World hunger

It takes somewhere on the order of 10lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of beef. I think cloning food is probably not a cost effective option. That is the main reason hungry people don't eat, cost.

 

[Princley]

Vitaliy

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[davo]

lol, most of your beef will come from brazil anyway, at least s. america. if not theyre growing the soya beans to make your cattle grow fatter and quicker. maybe brazil should breed a zebra pleco/cow hybrid. i understand the impracticalities and impossibilities of this, but you know, would save a lot of problems lol

 

[magellan]

To all the mad scientists out there....Clone away !! keep lab animals off of the endangered list...perhaps a little genetic engineering ...i'd like a 16" nurse shark variant...lol

 

[ewurm]

I'd like a Zebra Arowana!