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POLICE used a
search warrant on
Oct. 24 to investi-
gate the apartment
of a North
Vancouver woman
whose son is charged
with an execution-
style murder.

The woman, Farkhondeh
Nicou, isthe mother of Michael!
Caster, 19.

Caster and Jon Moroury, 18,
are in custody and charged with
the planned =o murder—oof

me Mohammad Mirhadi in a
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theatre on Feb. 28. They are
scheduled for a preliminary
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News Reporter
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An environmentalist worries the fish story
unfolding at a West Vancouver lab could
mae conclude with the demise of wild salmon.

Buta federal Department: of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
B spokesman makes the ongoing experiments scem far less sinister.
The controversy centres on experiments in genetics conduct-
ed at the laboratory, which is being tansterred frond DFO"s sole
jurisdiction to a consortium that includes private sector business

J es, universities and the DFO.
David Ellis, who prepared the report Nes Fess: the Salmon
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Wild stocks at risk due to
genetic tests in seaside
lab, says environmentalist

nies that the genetically altered tish will be used in fish farming
businesses. “Phere, they may escape, interbreed with the wild pop-
ulation and destroy wild stocks,

The provinee’s Sdmon Aquaculture Review says that “trans
genie” fish have their genetic composinion altered through the
injection Of JNA from other salmon, other species or a combi
nation of the no.

“Lhate to see this place become a research tacility for some
thing that is gomy to destroy our wild salmon,” Ellis said

“Ithey pot out and interbred with our wild fish, they would

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Cariboo keeper in a controversial shootout to decide a B.C. college semi-final game on Saturday at BCIT. See stories page 37.

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z ears are justified,

Davis said the goal of the geneti
fish thar grow taster and are more ase resistant.

Researchers have successtilly made fish grow faster, but Davis
said work continues on making them sterile and more resistant to
disease.

the research, which has been done by
be continued when the consortia takes over.

Davis said the experimental fish are kept ina quarantined faeil-
ity, behind lock and kev. Drains underneath the fish have a spe-
cil traps so they cent escape

“We are doing things in very carctilly controiled conditions

> research is to create sterile

DFO at the facility, will

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