The largest DNA survey of fish ever attempted, a $9.1-million GEN-FISH project, was launched Monday in Windsor.
Think of it as a genetic criminal database, only for each of Canada’s more than 200 native fish species.
“This field is just exploding,” GEN-FISH co-lead Daniel Heath said of environmental or eDNA research. “Certainly to our knowledge nobody else is trying to develop eDNA markers for every fish species in the country.”…