由IGENE生物技术公司(马里兰州哥伦比亚)研究出的酵母将产生对池养大麻哈鱼和虾有益的玫瑰色色调。在鱼池中养育这些具有天然粉红色鱼虾花费大而且麻烦。而想买无粉红色的大麻哈鱼和虾的顾客很少。以IGENE公司的酵母(它是通过常规突变和筛选技术使其含有天然虾青素的方法得到的)作为日粮增补剂,可能是扩大池养大麻哈鱼和虾的市场的一种廉价的方法。现在该公司已同纽约水族馆(纽约州的纽约城)签署了一项协议,水族馆将通过试验确定酵母内的其他营养成分对鱼生长率及健康的影响,以及使鱼适当着色的所需 Yeast, developed by IGENE Biotech (Columbia, Maryland), will produce a beneficial rosy hue of pond-raised salmon and shrimp. Raising these natural pink fish in ponds is expensive and troublesome. And few customers want to buy pink salmon and shrimp. Using IGENE’s yeast, which is obtained by conventional mutagenesis and screening techniques that contain native astaxanthin, as a dietary supplement may be an inexpensive way to expand the pool of cultured salmon and shrimp markets . Now the company has signed an agreement with the New York Aquarium (New York City, NY) that the aquarium will experiment to determine the effects of other nutrients in the yeast on fish growth rate and health as well as the proper coloring of the fish