A Real Fish Tale - Sightline Institute

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Over the holiday season, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an administrative finding that may remove one of the last obstacles before the agency approves the sale of genetically modified salmon in grocery stores. Here’s how we got to this point. In 1995, AquaBounty Technologies, a Massachusetts biotechnology company, filed an application with FDA to allow its engineered salmon as the first genetically modified animal into the American food supply. The company had patented AquAdvantage Salmon, a sterile Atlantic salmon female containing a Chinook salmon growth hormone gene, along with a DNA sequence from an ocean pout, a fish resembling an eel. The combination of genetic material allows the modified salmon to grow year-round, reaching market size within 18 months, about twice as fast as conventional salmon.

The Pike Fly, with its furry head and feathered tail, stirs up some allure in the water. The current streams through its tail and creates an illusion