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and they're going to release them into the everglades?
TL;DR they're trying to use alligator DNA to make catfish more resistant to infections in fish farms. >

Exactly - they'll be "nearly identical to the farm-raised catfish sold in grocery stores".
Unless they aren't. >

Life, uh, finds a way. >

Bob Ross as a geneticist:  "Happy little accidents" >

I always wondered, growing up, where my dad got that quote from.. >

Mom said I was a happy accident. Dad told me I was planned. Either Dad is trying to spare my feelings in some way or it is a testament to how poor my parent’s communication was back then. I find both explanations equally plausible. >

Schrödinger's pregnancy? >

Schrödinger's condom (the pregnancy was observable). >

Southerners must be looking forward to going catfish noodling in hard mode. >

Time to level up >

'Bama finally got smart enough to science and this is what they did >

Wait til they figure out how to reverse the deleterious effects of inbreeding >

Mother of God >

Yeah, she can bang the son of God. >

Can we call them Ali-cats for short? >

I will have one Cattigator >

Coming up, valued customer!  Have you signed our liability waiver and non-disclosure agreement already or should I bring that right over to you? >

Sounds like a direct to video horror movie plot >

Never go back to alligator-catfish lake >

Transgenic, not hybrids. Maybe that word is too complicated for Alabama? >

I ain’t eatin no woke TRANS fish!!!
/s if you haven’t figured that out yet. >

But Marrying your first cousin is a tradition >

Russia is the Motherland, Germany is the Fatherland, and Alabama is the Kissin' Cousinland. >

Dear God, they didn't mix in any raptor DNA did they? >

No, just the complete DNA of a frog to fill in the holes >

Wait, really? >

Sharktapus has entered the chat. >

Those movies are worth the watch just for the terrible CGI. >

i loved drink watching mega shark vs giant octopus. lol. >

I'm on board. Alligator taste better than catfish lol. >

As an ex Cajun my first thought was hungry >

Hillbilly Frankenstein. >

I for one welcome our catigator overloads. >

You say sterile but nature always finds a way. >

163 comments and not one of you called it a Gatfish. >

When they can engineer them to carry a glock, I'll call them gatfish... >

Same thing with salmon and eels >

Definition of "hybrid" - The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially the offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties, species, or races.
As u/jungles_fury noted, the genetically modified catfish are not hybrids. >

Half cat alligator half fish🎵🎶 >

The article mentioned catfish being sold in grocery stores "nationwide" but that's not really the case. I mostly lived in Oregon and D.C. and you generally only find it at Southern BBQ restaurants, though seafood shops sometimes have it. To be clear, I have always lived in very urban areas, so I don't know what's going on in rural areas. But because of logistical supply channels, I would be very surprised if there was much catfish.
I saw this on google:

Texans consume more catfish than residents of four other southern states combined. The study concluded the residents of Texas then consumed nearly 109 million pounds of catfish a year. That’s more than the residents of Alabama (30 million), Arkansas (18 million), Louisiana (28 million) and Mississippi (18 million) combined (94 million pounds). >

Having been to Texas a few times, I knew they weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. But this really confirms my suspicions. Do they not have any other non-garbage fish in Texas? >

Still half asleep, I read this as "alligator-crawfish hybrid"... >

Just imagine the canasta solos >

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. >

I wouldn't want to be noodling for catfish when one of those showed up. >

Shit, have you seen how big a catfish can get already!? >

So long as they are also domesticated. If you can't pet them then you shouldn't be making them in a lab. >

Do people not watch sci-fi movies????? >

Did anyone immediately think of the Catgators from Avatar: the Last Airbender that were kept as pets by the Foggy Swamp Tribe of waterbenders? >

There is no Catagators in Ba Sing Se