SciShow: Tank to Table: How Scientists Make Bigger, Tastier Seafood

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishow to start streaming "Curious Minds: Global Food Supply." Use the promo code ‘scishow’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free! Humans have been eating seafood for thousands of years, but some animals don’t grow very fast, and others taste pretty gross for at least part of the year. To solve these problems, scientists sometimes turn to genetics. If you eat seafood, odds are good that you’ve encountered at least one of these experiments on your plate! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.pnas.org/content/103/35/12957 https://fisheries.tamu.edu/files/2019/01/SRAC-0190.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/1548-8640%281966%2928%5B142%3AGOABXC%5D2.0.CO%3B2 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1203/a2af97978251544521d1d88f6d0556c0873d.pdf https://phys.org/news/2013-12-hybrid-catfish.html https://sfaas.auburn.edu/research/aquaculture/the-hybrid-catfish-initiative/ https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/0405223-channel-catfish-molecular-markers.html https://fisheries.tamu.edu/files/2019/01/SRAC-0190.pdf https://www.houstonpress.com/restaurants/before-you-eat-that-oyster-do-you-know-about-its-huge-gonad-9485834 http://wsg.washington.edu/oysterstew/popup/1986popup.html https://theoystersmyworld.com/tag/tetraploid-oysters/ http://www.fao.org/3/y5720e/y5720e0c.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3348941/ https://projects.sare.org/sare_project/fw15-035/ https://isaaa.org/resources/publications/pocketk/17/default.asp https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animals-intentional-genomic-alterations/aquadvantage-salmon-fact-sheet https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144860900000522 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d896/636f0f69294410791ae3e7bc0d21c65c0cbf.pdf https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-sustainable-seafood Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kisokaido54_Godo.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/feeding-fish-at-fish-farm-ros7ary3njvoynkfr https://www.videoblocks.com/video/dead-salmon-in-creek-rr2y-kk https://www.videoblocks.com/video/catfish-resting-at-the-bottom-on-the-aquarium-at-the-zoo-bu3cvla-7jisp9mcp https://www.videoblocks.com/video/deep-fried-fish-balls-4dvvfd9sgil50uwtr https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/seamless-pattern-with-fishes-gm1156805085-315428098 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/texture-of-catfish-caviar-for-the-background-gm1165389911-320655060 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/fish-eggs-hatch-hd-smxjvcpamjp2ths9k https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-shot-of-a-captured-alaska-king-salmon-gm157290497-3722657 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ready-to-eat-oyster-gm1163375147-319424274 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/oyster-gm1017526552-273624656 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/leaping-atlantic-salmon-salmo-salar-migrating-to-their-spawning-grounds-on-the-river-gm906020566-249809625 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pearls-inside-an-alive-oyster-gm864278132-143322633 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/delicious-raw-fresh-oysters-close-up-gm1132507804-300248795 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WHSA_Ocean_Pout.jpg


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