Article updated: 12/4/2012 11:09 AM

Fast-growing fish may never wind up on your plate

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This 2010 photo provided by AquaBounty Technologies shows two same-age salmon, a genetically modified salmon, rear, and a non-genetically modified salmon, foreground. Salmon that's genetically modified to grow twice as fast as normal could soon show up on your dinner plate — if the company that makes the fish can stay afloat.

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Salmon that's genetically modified to grow twice as fast as normal could soon show up on your dinner plate. That is, if the company that makes the fish can stay afloat. After weathering safety concerns, Aquabounty was poised to become the world's first company to sell fish whose DNA has been altered to speed up growth. But the FDA has still not approved the fish, and Aquabounty is running out of money.