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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Friday to genetically modified salmon that grow about twice as fast as normal.
The FDA lifted an alert which
Prevented AquaBounty from importing its salmon eggs to its Indiana facility, where they would be grown before being sold as food. The agency noted the salmon has already undergone safety reviews, and that it lifted its alert because the fish would be subject to a new regulation that will require companies to disclose when a food is bioengineered.
Compliance with the disclosure regulations will start showing up in 2020 and becomes mandatory in 2022.
As one might expect, the FDA is under suit by various groups opposed to the sale of the fish.
Called AquAdvantage, the fish is Atlantic salmon modified with DNA from other fish species to grow faster, which the company says will help feed growing demand for animal protein while reducing costs.
The fish are bred female and sterile in containment tanks to help allay fears about them entering the environment.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday March 11 2019, @04:59PM
If they're raising the fish in holding ponds, I find it hard to see how it could possibly be economic. Salmon are carnivores. Normally they take about five years to reach maturity. (Google says 3 to 8 years to maturity, I assume that varies by species/variety.) There have already been complaints about "fish farmers" dredging places and taking all the fry so that they never have a chance to grow up, to feed their fish. If I'm eating farmed fish, then I prefer to choose tilapia or some other vegetarian, but that won't give you the omega-3's that salmon are high in.
Also, every herder I've heard of has occasional escapees.
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