Escapees and Genetic Dilution by Michael Baker https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1 Answer the questions posted in the Padlet with relevant examples given to support your answers! en-us 2017-12-05 08:35:32 UTC 2025-11-15 01:35:14 UTC hello@padlet.com What is Genetic Dilution? michael_baker2 https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213182508 2017-12-05 08:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213182508 Why is Genetic Dilution an issue? michael_baker2 https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213182612 2017-12-05 08:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213182612 How can escapees from fish farms cause Genetic Dilution? michael_baker2 https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213183022 2017-12-05 08:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213183022 How can we manage Genetic Dilution if we can't stop escapees? michael_baker2 https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213183198 2017-12-05 08:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213183198 Genetic dilution https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213191823 The process occurring when domestic farmed fish with low variations between individuals interbred with wild fish of the same species. Leading to the subsequent off spring having a lower variability when compared to the pure wild strain.]]> 2017-12-05 09:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213191823 Issues https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213192908 farmed fish have a higher fecundity and survival rates forcing a crash due to increase In population]]> 2017-12-05 09:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213192908 Genetic dilution is an issue as the farmed fish are breeding with the wild stocks which are creating offspring that are more susceptible to disease. https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213193681 2017-12-05 09:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213193681 Their behaviour would be different as there is no flight response to predation as their is no natural predators in fish pens. https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213194611 2017-12-05 09:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213194611 There palatability will affect them because they will be fed on other foods in a farm and will not eat the same food when they are in the wild. https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213194796 2017-12-05 09:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213194796 Introduction to new diseases https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213196203 2017-12-05 09:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213196203 Issues https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213200922 habitat destruct of spawning beds reducing reproduction of wild stocks. also feeding of the eggs of the wild stocks reducing the survival rate. ]]> 2017-12-05 09:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213200922 Tilapia https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213202176 http://www.ciba.res.in/Books/epublication%20no%2028.pdf]]> 2017-12-05 09:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213202176 Issue https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213208177 introduction of non native and invasive species when the fish escape into somewhere that they are not found in the wild]]> 2017-12-05 10:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_baker2/k0uo9d19j1/wish/213208177