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Jay Rockefeller: “My bill seeks to prevent the release of GE salmon and other marine fish into the wild until we have enough scientific…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2011
My bill seeks to prevent the release of GE salmon and other marine fish into the wild until we have enough scientific evidence to show that the GE fish can be produced without risk to our Nation's wildfish stocks and aquatic environments.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Aims to halt GE fish release until proven safe for wild fish stocks.

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