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  • Salmon spawn baby trout in experiment

    09/13/2007 12:07:15 PM PDT · by decimon · 20 replies · 360+ views
    Associated Press ^ | LAURAN NEERGAARD
    WASHINGTON - Papa salmon plus mama salmon equals ... baby trout? Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish. Idaho scientists begin the next big step next month, trying to produce a type of salmon highly endangered in that state — the sockeye — this time using more plentiful trout as surrogate parents. The new method is "one of the best things that has happened in a long time in bringing something new into conservation biology," said University of Idaho zoology professor Joseph...