Minutes, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee, Working Group on Aquatic Biotechnology and Environmental Safety : September 28, 1994.

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[1994]
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    Vi. Effects on Ecosystem Structure and Processes from V.B.1 optionally Assess type and magnitude of interactions from V.D. NO between GMOs (both accidentally escaped GMOs Could and their descendants) and other organisms in accidentally escaped GMOs the accessible ecosystem(s). or their descendants function as a keystone species? Be sure to consider the following interactions: -predator-prey Assessment -competitive, symbiotic, and parasitic; and not possible -indirect. YES Be sure to consider the following other organisms: -conspecifics of and species closely related to the GMO: Accidental escape of GMOs -rare, threatened or endangered species, and functioning as keystone or - species caught by sport or commercial “singularly important fisheries species is likely to substantially alter ecosystem ; processes in ways that would Interactions assessed not have occurred if GMOs had not escaped. Lack of necessary information or methods prevents reliable Assess potential for above interactions of GMOs to adversely alter structure or processes of the accessible ecosystem(s) in ways that would not have occurred if GMOs had not accidentally escaped. GO TO VI.B Manage Risk of Alteration GO TO VI.B of Ecosystem Processes Manage Risk of Alteration of Ecosystem Processes - trigger losses of diversity in species, genetic information, or habitats; -decrease the predictability of the state of the aquatic ecosystem, complicating actions aimed at resource protection and EXIT utilization such cena oe management; -permanently alter the ecosystem to a STANDARDS degraded state for both long-term sustainability and human utilization. EXIT STANDARDS Adverse alterations Adverse alterations are clearly impossible are possible Is the scale of the research YES experiment(s) small enough that accidental escape of all GMOs would fail to trigger any adverse alteration of structure or processes?
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