A biotechnology company is upgrading a defunct fish farm where it plans to grow AquAdvantage Salmon — the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption as food.
The company is building a 250-metric ton (551,156 pounds annually) production unit in Rollo Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is upgrading the former Bell Aquaculture fish farm in Albany [Indiana] to increase production to 1,200 metric tons (2,645,547 pounds) a year.
"Both of these facilities must be approved by the FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration) prior to their initial stocking with AquAdvantage Salmon, but we anticipate both to be operational in 2018 with a first harvest of commercial production in late 2019," the company reported.
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