World Record Trout Caught in Canada.

[Huntbear]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/biotechfishing?npu=1&mbid=yhp

48-Pound Trout: World Record or Genetic Cheat?

In an age of biotechnological juicing, not even the easygoing pastime of fishing is free from controversies over artificial enhancement.

On September 5, Saskatchewan fisherman Sean Konrad caught a 48-pound, world-record rainbow trout. The fish came from Lake Diefenbaker, where trout genetically engineered to grow extra-big escaped from a fish farm nine years ago.

The previous world record was held by Sean’s twin brother Adam, who pulled a 43-pound, 10-ounce rainbow trout from Lake Diefenbaker in 2007. That catch sparked online debate over the legitimacy of Lake Diefenbaker’s farm-born, genetically-engineered rainbows. Technically known as triploids, they’re designed with three sets of chromosomes, making them sterile and channeling energies normally spent reproducing towards growth.

In 2007, on a message board of the International Game Fish Association, the angling world’s record- and ethics-keeping body, some fishermen argued that triploids were unnatural, as divorced from the sport’s history as Barry Bonds’ home runs were from Hank Aaron’s.

The IGFA refused to make a distinction between natural and GM fish. Neither would they distinguish between species caught in their traditional waters and those introduced into new, growth-friendly environments, such as largemouth bass whose extra-large ancestors were imported from Florida to California in the 1960s.

But to purists, there was a difference between transplantation and outright manufacture.

The Konrad brothers’ response on the message board was curt: “Stop crying and start fishing.”

Now they’ve caught another record-breaking trout. Or have they?

[ICEMAN]

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[Big D]

Here's the photo.

[BigGoonTuna]

great, now we're gonna be seeing this picture on every fishing board for the next 2 years claiming someone caught it in this state, just like the last one.

[yelp]

Here is his brother's trout caught in 2007 same lake.  Twins with two monster trout out of the same lake.. That is cool.   

[GoldTip]

Helluva fish either way.  Fish has lived and breathed and ate in those waters for 9 years?  Close enough to natural to me.

B&C and P&Y don't distinguish between deer taken in Texas on low fence ranches where northern deer genes have been introduced either.

[couesbitten]

Huge fish! The guy looks like Stifler from American Pie.

[jackelope]

48-Pound Trout: World Record or Genetic Cheat?

genetic cheat. natural course of a fish's life is to breed, causing them to lose weight. a triploid does not breed...no weight loss, no nothing. they eat and eat and eat. it's been morphed by a lab. it;s a mutant fish.

 

[KimberRich]

Huge fish! The guy looks like Stifler from American Pie.

   Definitely looks like the Stiffmeister!!!

Huge fish!  But genetically designed to get huge..  Like Barry Bonds.  So maybe put an asterisk next to the fish like they should do next to the Home Run record! 

[ICEMAN]

I like my picture better... swimming pig...

[deaddog]

I like my picture better... swimming pig...

Me too Iceman, hey that water pig aint one of those lab made mutant pigs is it? and if it is, does the bacon taste the same?

[Huntbear]

Probably tastes like Turkey Bacon.... no taste at all, 

[Alpine Mojo]

If I was reeling in a fish like that, would I worry if it met some purists' approval of naturally born or native bred?    HELL NO!!!

So like the boys said...  “Stop crying and start fishing.” 

[Alchase]

Those two brothers are fishing fools. They fish all the time and they have figured out how to catch the biggest fish consistently. If anyone deserves a world record it would be someone who has put the time and effort to perfect their skill.
Sure beats little Freddy with his spiderman fishing pole catching one of the dock in Pine Lake on Power Bait 

[Alchase]

I like Iceman's fish, everything tastes good with bacon