Opportunities for Environmental Applications of Marine Biotechnology Proceedings of the October 5-6, 1999, Workshop (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Social and Regulatory Aspects of the Marine Environment
Social and Regulatory Aspects of the Marine Environment
Pages 154-160
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I hasten to add that we cannot and should not assume the vast burden of publicizing what biotechnology has done and might do; however, it is important to make known more widely the accomplishments and promises of marine biotechnology. I was shocked earlier when I heard about severely damaged corals and reefs.
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Therefore, because I find the HGP and its social implications interesting, I will read articles or watch programs that deal with these topics. However, people who have not been introduced to these topics probably would focus on subjects of more interest to them and skip right by anything to do with the HGP.
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Such a project might involve setting up a focus group whose membership would consist of the major stakeholders people who manage beaches, tourist promotion agencies, local fisheries, public health officials, and citizens from local communities. This focus group could be presented with a scenario of a major oil spill and be asked to consider different options of dealing with it, including bioremediation.
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The major reason for attempting these two steps would be to create a stable and straightforward regulatory path for developers who would like to introduce a new application based on biotechnology into the marine environment. Therefore, I suggest that it would be timely for agencies interested in sponsoring scientific research in marine biotechnology to also sponsor social science research that would cast light on the regulatory barriers that might hinder introductions of materials into the seas.
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Even if we do not have the scientific knowledge to fulfill the familiarity criteria, it is safe to assume that the technology push will sooner or later result in the introduction of GMOs into the open marine environment. So instead of saying, "No, no, it is not going to happen, nobody is going to do it without proper preparation, we are not going to allow it to happen," we should assume that it will happen; perhaps not in the United States or other Western nations, but somewhere.
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As a result of these importations, some of the diseases that had devastated the shrimp aquaculture industry in several Asian nations were imported for the first time to Central America and the United States, where they caused heavy damage. International Awareness l understand from Dr.
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1998 Federal and state regulations relevant to uncontained applications of genetically engineered marine organisms. In: Zilinskas RA, Balint PJ, eds.
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