Genetic options for the control of invasive fishes were recently reviewed and synthesized at a 2010 international symposium, held in Minneapolis/ St. Paul, MN, USA. The only option currently available ‘‘off-the-shelf’’ is triploidy, which can be used to produce sterile males for a release program analogous to those widely and successfully used for biological control of insect pests. However, the Trojan Y and several recombinant options that heritably distort pest population sex ratios are technologically feasible, are at or are close to proof-of-concept stage and are potentially much more effective than sterile male release programs. All genetic options at this stage require prolonged stocking programs to be effective, though gene drive systems are a potential for recombinant approaches. They are also likely to differ in their current degree of social acceptability, with chromosomal approaches (triploidy and Trojan Y) likely to be the most readily acceptable to the public and least likely to require changes in legislative or policy settings to be implemented. Modelling also suggests that the efficacy of any of these genetic techniques is enhanced by, and in turn non-additively enhance, conventional methods of pest fish control.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Biological control, Daughterless, Genetic control, Insect, Recombinant, Triploidy, Trojan Y
Research Division:	Environmental Sciences
Research Group:	Environmental management
Research Field:	Environmental management
Objective Division:	Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards
Objective Group:	Environmental policy, legislation and standards
Objective Field:	Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Bax, NJ (Professor Nicholas Bax)
ID Code:	89690
Year Published:	2014 (online first 2013)
Web of Science® Times Cited:	53
Deposited By:	IMAS Research and Education Centre
Deposited On:	2014-03-12
Last Modified:	2017-10-06
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