John Carlos Garza, a geneticist based a day’s drive south in Santa Cruz, has become a key figure in California’s effort to preserve its decimated salmon stocks. Using the latest genetic techniques, he and his team decide which individual fish should be bred together.
To Save Its Salmon, California Calls In the Fish Matchmaker
January 15, 2016
Biologists are using genetic techniques to reduce inbreeding.
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