"They experience no abnormal behavior, they feed properly..." ...and they float upside down. Good work, professor! Next on the list: injecting nightcrawlers with myostatin to turn them into an inexpensive form of shark bait...

In one of the ALIEN movies(#3 maybe), there is an alien/human hybrid that looks whitish in color and nasty and deformed looking. Thats what these trout remind me of. In the movie they killed the alien, I hope they do with those fish as well.

Why doesn't someone try to figure out how to genetically engineer common sense into more people.

i think we should immediately begin injecting the good professor with this stuff and see how he likes it. this kind of thing is not natural and should be illegal!

all that i can say is WTF thats just WRONG!

eww.

This must be a joke, right?

I want to see a heads up match between one of these and a normal standard rainbow trout. Put them both in serpate, but similar tanks, feed them the same, put the same current through the tank and then see which one grows more efficiently pound per x amount of feed. You may very well end up having the rainbow trout variety of asian carp that will eat other fish out of house and home. Or you would have one ugly fish that only a mother could love......much like the carp, and I love catching those.

I'll pass, but I'm really curious to know who's been funding this guy for all these years.

Thet is the worst looking fish I ever saw. Guess it's time to go witness 'em launching fireworks at the sea lions at Bonneville while training my Labs. I don't know which is more offensive.

Franken-fish. Looks like it's on steroids. Probably tastes like fish pellets.

I wonder what kind of corn would grow if you buried that thing in the garden?

precisely why i don't eat farm raised fish. eeewwww grosss!

i don't know how he can look so satisfied with himself when he looks at that fish... and can someone tell him that trout floating on their sides/back is NOT normal behavior?

if they release that to the wild we'll have mad fish disease on top of all the other diseases out there(swine flu, bird flu) fish are fine leave them alone... if your worried about over fishing patrol the oceans a little better.. just my thought.

Yep the dead fish are kinda a turnoff on the whole idea, someone needs to mention to the grad student that at this point rocking them in the current isn't gonna do much good--- has he not noticed the lethal effect of farmed salmon on wild fish?

Based on those abs, I'd think this fish was an extra from MTV's "Jersey Shore."

This is no different that what modern food production does with corn, soy beans, pigs, chickens, cattle, milk, etc. etc. etc. If any of this bothers you, you can join the Slow Food movement and/or purchase meat/produce from local Community Supported Agriculture organizations.

I like my fish like my athletes. Juiced up and ready to play. WHo eats salmon, taste like ?????. Unless your like me and love salmon (wink at my wife).

Utterly disgusting. Are we talking trans-gendered fish here? These "scientists" should be ashamed spending so much time, money and effort to produce that sickening specimen that looks like it's been floating belly up in some backwater eddy for a week. And all we need is for that thing to somehow escape into the natural environment. What a waste when so many other thngs coul dbe worked on ike whriling disease.

I prefer my potaoes on the out side of my fish dinners.

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