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mmaunderlast Sunday at 4:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

They’ve bred more docile salmon, according to the article. Getting that DNA into wild populations would be problematic I’d imagine.


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Animatslast Monday at 7:27 AM

That's surprisingly easy. It's been done for chickens. All that was necessary was to put groups of chickens in cages, and keep only the cage groups that were the best egg-layers. After only a few generations, chicken-on-chicken violence was way down.

LoveMortuuslast Monday at 7:17 AM

>docile salmon

Hmm… that made me think of domestication, do you think we could ever have salmon as pets? What’s their character like? More like dogs or cats?

fragmedelast Monday at 2:52 AM

If those salmon are too docile, just give them cocaine.

https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gi...

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