Do Not Mess With Fish 91

and you thought fish were fun! well Terry Bradley, a professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island did not, he thought they were food! Professor Bradley said ‘Belgian blue cattle have a natural mutation in myostatin causing a 20 to 25 percent increase in muscle mass, and mice overexpressing myostatin exhibit a two-fold increase in skeletal muscle mass, but fish have a very different mechanism of muscle growth than mammals, so we weren’t certain it was going to work.’ Luckily for Professor Bradley, it did work, the rainbow trout’s enhanced muscle mass is between 15 to 20 per cent higher than that of a standard fish, thanks to Professor Bradley’s research into the inhibition of myostatin, a protein that slows growth, which means that the increased muscle mass will have commercial benefits in that larger fish can be grown without increasing the amount of food they need, I can hear it at the local chippy now, 'two super trout and chips to go please!'