http://www.stuff.co.nz/4134511a11.html GE fish owners treated 'like criminals'
Christchurch fish owners say they are being treated "like criminals" by Biosecurity New Zealand after officials destroyed genetically engineered (GE) tropical fish at their home yesterday.
Cashmere tropical-fish owners and breeders Tristan and Carissa Clements said they were surprised when Biosecurity officials told them their brightly coloured zebra danio fish were illegally genetically engineered.
Five Biosecurity officials and two security guards visited them yesterday to kill about 20 fish.
A total of 300 tropical fish from five Christchurch properties were destroyed.
Officials said the fish were "humanely euthanased".
Biosecurity was told of the GE fish after members of the public saw them for sale on an internet auction site.
Other danio species kept on properties with GE fish were also killed.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4134511a11.html
GE fish owners treated 'like criminals'
Christchurch fish owners say they are being treated "like criminals" by Biosecurity New Zealand after officials destroyed genetically engineered (GE) tropical fish at their home yesterday.
Cashmere tropical-fish owners and breeders Tristan and Carissa Clements said they were surprised when Biosecurity officials told them their brightly coloured zebra danio fish were illegally genetically engineered.
Five Biosecurity officials and two security guards visited them yesterday to kill about 20 fish.
A total of 300 tropical fish from five Christchurch properties were destroyed.
Officials said the fish were "humanely euthanased".
Biosecurity was told of the GE fish after members of the public saw them for sale on an internet auction site.
Other danio species kept on properties with GE fish were also killed.