re: Auburn Creates New Hybrid Catfish

Great, now your catfish on your plate will eat your hushpuppies before you get them.

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Alligator-Catfish Hybrid

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Serious dark horse contender for weird shite that ends the world right there

We already farm both traditional channel catfish and a hybrid catfish that’s a cross between a blue catfish and channel cat. Those hybrids are sterile too. What we do is pick out female channels that are ready to spawn, inject them with hormone to make them release the eggs and 3 days later squeeze the eggs out of them into a pan, take a male blue cat and cut the testes out of him and run it through a strainer to get the sperm and use that to fertilize the eggs.

This Auburn hybrid isn’t feasible unless they’re allowed to keep the reproductive gene in the fish. No farmer has the time money or tech to edit genes on millions of fish to farm them commercially. It will have to be able to naturally reproduce

I hope they can do it. Traditional channels have a lot of disease issues and survival percentages make it much harder to make money farming channels these days. Hybrids we face grow faster and are more disease resistant but the quality of the filets isn’t as good. They’re mushier in texture than a channel filet and it has cost the industry sales.

A new hybrid that is disease resistant that maintains the filet quality of a channel cat would be awesome

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Can Hannah noodle the hybrids?

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There are rules.


And I would wood

Thank you. That Hannah is some cute. Could be my granddaughter but i still appreciate a country girl who can fish and clean ‘em too plus gorgeous to boot.

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Is it Tigers, War Eagle, or Gatorfish?

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Plainscats

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One fear that came up during the experiment was the risk of a genetically modified super-fish escaping from farms and disrupting neighboring ecosystems. To prevent this, they used the CRISPR gene-editing tool to remove a catfish gene associated with reproduction. They replaced it with the alligator gene. With these genes swapped, the hybrid catfish are unable to reproduce.

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*Laughs in Jurassic Park*

They people that do this... Auburn, Harvard, anywhere else... are fools. This is stupid arrogance. And sooner or later, we'll pay for it.