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If you are a fish consumer, it is almost certain that you eat seafood produced in aquaculture such as salmon, sea-bream, sea-bass, turbot and mussels. On average every person in European Union (EU) consumes 5.5 kg of seafood from aquaculture production per year  [1] . Mussels are the most produced species in the EU followed by trout, salmon and oysters; but the total output of European aquaculture represents only 1.5% of the global production. Given that 57% of farmed fish consumed in the Europe is imported, the European Commission (EC) now wants to encourage the growth of aquaculture production in all member states and aquaculture appears as one of the five strategic areas in the "Blue Growth" designed by the EC, which includes also the development of coastal tourism, biotechnology, mining seabed and ocean energy  [2] . Decisions relating to aquaculture, even if they are made through the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), unlike as it happens with fis...

No? But may you will if you eat salmon. By now, you’ve probably heard that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever genetically engineered animal for human consumption.  It’s an Atlantic salmon modified for fast growth with genes from two other edible fish, and it has been — and will undoubtedly continue to be — a lightning rod for all the issues associated with genetically modified foods.  There’s safety, there’s escape into the environment and there’s labeling: a trifecta of discord.  ... On both of those issues, there will always be some doubt. Safety can’t be proved (we can only infer it from absence of harm so far), and any containment system can fail.  So the questions aren’t “Is it safe?” and “Could they escape?”  The question is whether the risk in those two areas is outweighed by the benefits. ... So let’s talk about the benefits.  According to AquaBounty, the advantages are that the fish reaches market weight...