There’s been an angry tempest about so-called “Frankenfish” — that is, genetically engineered ones — lately. Environmental and consumer activists are stirring up a big angry bouillabaisse over Waltham, Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies‘ effort to get federal regulatory permission to market a genetically engineered version of the Atlantic salmon, which incorporates a gene from the Chinook salmon that would give it the ability to grow to market size in half the time that it would take a natural, unaltered Atlantic salmon to mature, according to AquaBounty’s website. “In all other respects, AquAdvantage Salmon are identical to other Atlantic salmon,” the company says.
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