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There are numerous concerns swimming around the AquaAdvantage salmon, a genetically modified fish that could become the first ever GE protein to receive market approval. Many of these are environmental (Could it escape and breed in the wild?) as well as health-based (What are the long-term effects of consumption?), and they remain in spite of last year’s preliminary approval by the Food and Drug Administration and reassurances by AquaBounty Technologies, which developed the AquaAdvantage.

byJeff Wells, Reporter