• AquaBounty CEO Ron Stotish, the company that applied with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market genetically modified salmon, speaks to reporters in 2010 in Rockville, Maryland. The FDA on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States. AquAdvantage Salmon was created Massachusetts-based AquaBounty. | AP
    AquaBounty CEO Ron Stotish, the company that applied with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market genetically modified salmon, speaks to reporters in 2010 in Rockville, Maryland. The FDA on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States. AquAdvantage Salmon was created Massachusetts-based AquaBounty. | AP

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WASHINGTON – A genetically engineered animal for human consumption was approved by U.S. regulators for the first time, allowing AquaBounty Technologies Inc. to begin marketing its faster-growing salmon — a creation critics have dubbed “Frankenfish.”

The Food and Drug Administration cleared AquAdvantage Salmon, which has added genes that allows the fish to more quickly expand to produce more flesh. It’s a victory for AquaBounty after a two-decade struggle to be able to sell the animal to farmers.

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