[Thanks to Professor Li Kangmin for the message below. Note, in Message 38, "200 years" should be '20 years". Also, I remind you that all of the messages posted are available on the searchable website https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Biotech-Room2-L (note, you do not need to log in to read them). To see the messages sorted by date (latest on top), see https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1211&L=Biotech-Room2-L&O=D&H=0&D=1&T=1 ...Moderator]. My name is Li Kangmin, Emeritus Professor of Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences (CAFS), China. Here is the information on GM fish in the pipeline in China: China conducted the first transgenic fish research in 1983. The research team led by Zhu Zuoyan (a senior researcher of the Institute of Hydrobiology, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences [CAS]) transferred successfully fish growth hormone gene into fertilized eggs and in 1984, developed the world's first batch of transgenic fish. On this basis, they confirmed that the integration, expression, gonad transfer, the growth-promoting effect of its expression product of the exogenous growth hormone gene in receptor fish and they established a theoretical model of transgenic fish research. However, transgenic fish research for breeding is involved in molecular biology, genetics, developmental biology, physiology, aquaculture science and ecology and other disciplines. It is difficult to further deepen the research in many laboratories after the initial attempt, now there are only a few labs to continue in China, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and so on. In recent years, he cultivated the common carp family of "all-fish" growth hormone gene; with its growth rate that is 42% faster, feed conversion ratio 18.5% higher, of which he got completely independent intellectual property rights. He clarified some related molecular biological mechanisms, set up a model, created the experimental system of the ecological safety, developed successfully the transgenic fish with ecological safety, and established an efficient farming mode of transgenic fish, thus to provide a sufficient scientific and material reserve for commercialization of the first transgenic fish. Zhu Zuoyan has therefore developed GM fish for nearly 30 years, but so far we have not seen any GM fish commercialized in market. I don't think any government will dare commercialise the GMO crops or animals without considering the oppositions. That is why the gene-altered fish is still not commercialised on market in China, maybe in next five years, I'm not sure. Li Kangmin, Emeritus Prof Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, No. 9 Shanshui East Road, Wuxi 214081, China e-mail: li_kangmin (at) yahoo.com.cn [To contribute to this conference, send your message to [log in to unmask] For further information on this FAO Biotechnology Forum, see http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the Biotech-Room2-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=Biotech-Room2-L&A=1