It sounds like a science-fiction scenario: engineer a fish with a gene for growth hormones to accelerate maturation and create a giant “super fish.” Freakish as it may seem, for more than a decade, corporations and researchers in the U.S. and abroad have engineered human and other foreign growth genes into salmon, trout, and numerous other fish species in an attempt to make “super fish.” Their incentive, of course, is to create a more profitable fish by taking a commercially viable fish, genetically engineering it to grow bigger faster, thereby bringing more seafood to the market in less time.
