A Biotechnology company, AquaBounty Technologies engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of products using biotechnology to increase the productivity of aquaculture. In the late 1980s, AquaBounty Technologies developed first genetically modified animal, AquAdvantage salmon (Varela 2013, Greenberg 2014). AquAdvantage salmon defined as genetically-engineered Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) which have a rapid-growth phenotype.
This salmon contain a single copy of the stably integrated α form of opAFP-GHc2 at α locus in the EO-1 α line. OpAFP-GHc2 is a recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) compose of regulatory sequences from an ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus) antifreeze protein (AFP) gene and protein-coding sequence …show more content…
AquAdvantage Salmon reach to full, adult size twice as quickly as conventional ones. For example, altered salmon can grow to "market weight" of as much as 13 pounds in two or three years, whereas it takes three to four years for natural salmon (Peterson 2010)., Genetically engineered salmon eggs are produced within an AquaBounty facility situated in Prince Edward Island, Canada and fish are raise to market weight at an AquaBounty farm in Panama. There are some difference between AquAdvantage Salmon and non-transgenic salmon. Transgenic salmon have increased metabolic rate, oxygen consumption, feeding motivation, utilization of lower quality food, utilization of larger prey, accelerated growth to sexually-mature size etc. but reduced initial energy reserves, tolerance to low oxygen availability, thermal optimum range, schooling tendency, reduced anti-predator response, reduced disease resistance compared to non-transgenic wild salmon (Staveley …show more content…
On the other hand, risks are three fold: food safety (toxicity or allergenicity may be appear from any of the new genes incorporated into the salmon), environmental (crossbreeding, colonization and extinction of native salmon) and socio-economics (fast-growing salmon need more fish meal that are prepared from natural prey fish come from less developed region; more fish need to make fish meal and increasing aquaculture cost) (Varela 2013). According to the senator of Alaska, Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, approval of will be risky and threat for wild salmon (Peterson
This salmon contain a single copy of the stably integrated α form of opAFP-GHc2 at α locus in the EO-1 α line. OpAFP-GHc2 is a recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) compose of regulatory sequences from an ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus) antifreeze protein (AFP) gene and protein-coding sequence …show more content…
AquAdvantage Salmon reach to full, adult size twice as quickly as conventional ones. For example, altered salmon can grow to "market weight" of as much as 13 pounds in two or three years, whereas it takes three to four years for natural salmon (Peterson 2010)., Genetically engineered salmon eggs are produced within an AquaBounty facility situated in Prince Edward Island, Canada and fish are raise to market weight at an AquaBounty farm in Panama. There are some difference between AquAdvantage Salmon and non-transgenic salmon. Transgenic salmon have increased metabolic rate, oxygen consumption, feeding motivation, utilization of lower quality food, utilization of larger prey, accelerated growth to sexually-mature size etc. but reduced initial energy reserves, tolerance to low oxygen availability, thermal optimum range, schooling tendency, reduced anti-predator response, reduced disease resistance compared to non-transgenic wild salmon (Staveley …show more content…
On the other hand, risks are three fold: food safety (toxicity or allergenicity may be appear from any of the new genes incorporated into the salmon), environmental (crossbreeding, colonization and extinction of native salmon) and socio-economics (fast-growing salmon need more fish meal that are prepared from natural prey fish come from less developed region; more fish need to make fish meal and increasing aquaculture cost) (Varela 2013). According to the senator of Alaska, Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, approval of will be risky and threat for wild salmon (Peterson