Their parents were the hundreds of hybrids that grew quickly, like brook trout, but held the sleek appearance of Arctic char, with pink-orange bellies, Foster said.

Here's the bigger surprise: Injecting the male cells into female salmon sometimes worked, too, prompting five female salmon to ovulate trout eggs. That's a scientific first, Yoshizaki said.

Yes they can. Not only that, but the hybrid offspring can inherit the turbo growth genes and grow at a remarkable pace, outcompeting both natural salmon and transgenic salmon for food.

An angler fishing near Algoma on Sunday caught a 12.46-pound pinook salmon, a wild hybrid of a pink salmon and a chinook salmon. The fish is a Wisconsin record and was naturally-reproduced ...

Genetically modified salmon can breed with wild trout to produce a new fast growing fish that can harm natural species, scientists have warned. By Richard Gray and Richardgray 29 May 2013 • 7:15am ...

John 'Kid' Corbett caught this 23.5-inch landlocked salmon on Skaneateles Lake. He said the spots on the fish's head could fool some into thinking it's brown trout.

The authors used fertile AquAdvantage ® Salmon and mated them with brown trout in the laboratory to produce hybrids. The hybrids had characteristics expected of conventional inheritance from ...

Dr Darek Moreau, from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, said: " [Under hatchery conditions] the transgenic hybrids grew faster than the wild salmon, wild trout and wild-type hybrids.

Researchers from Canada say that there is a risk of GM salmon mating with the closely-related brown trout species to produce a hybrid fish.

SALMON stocks in Norway are under threat from a deadly parasite being spread by record numbers of a trout-salmon hybrid. The fear is that the hybrid fish, which carry the parasite but remain ...