founded 1991 1 headquarters maynard massachusetts 1 key people ronald l. stotish president & ceo website aquabounty.com aquabounty technologies is a biotechnology company based in maynard massachusetts united states . the company is notable for its research and development of genetically modified fish . 2 it aims to create products that aim to increase the productivity of aquaculture . 3 contents 1 products 2 finances 3 references 4 external links products edit the company has developed hybrid salmon trout and tilapia designed to grow faster than traditional fish . their hybrid atlantic salmon incorporates a gene from a chinook salmon which bears a single copy of the stably integrated form of the opafp ghc2 gene construct at the locus in the eo 1 line ocean pout aka eel . 4 aquabounty has patented and trademarked this fish as the aquadvantage salmon a sterile atlantic salmon female that can grow to market size in half the time of conventional salmon . 5 the company also produces antifreeze proteins ; and conducts research and development programs related to the commercialization of cryo preservatives and the antifreeze gene constructs . 3 finances edit in 2012 a new york times article reported the finances of aquabounty were not in good shape and the company had to reduce staff from 27 to 12 . 6 in march 2012 aquabounty raised us 2 million in new capital but this would only last until the end of the year . 6 georgian investor kakha bendukidze owned 47.6 % of the company s stock before selling to american synthetic biology firm intrexon in october 2012 . intrexon put up 500 000 in bridge financing and offered to buy the rest of the company . 5 7 intrexon acquired majority ownership of aquabounty in 2013 . 8 references edit a b company & history . retrieved 2011 03 18 . http www.democracynow.org 2016 5 20 headlines canada approves sale of genetically modified salmon a b aquabounty technologies company overview . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 2011 03 18 . staveley jane p. 25 august 2010 . environmental assessment for aquadvantage salmon pdf . retrieved 2012 10 03 . a b pollack andrew december 21 2012 . engineered fish moves a step closer to approval . the new york times . a b pollack andrew 21 may 2012 an entrepreneur bankrolls a genetically engineered salmon . the new york times retrieved 3 october 2012 delays put question mark over gm salmon as development company receives bid . fishupdate.com . december 10 2012 . jacob bunge 15 december 2015 firm bets on biotech that changes how food is produced . the wall street journal retrieved 30 january 2016 external links edit official website v t e genetic engineering genetically modified organisms crops maize mon 810 mon 863 starlink list of varieties of genetically modified maize potato amflora rice golden rice soybean roundup ready soybean vistive gold tomato flavr savr cotton bt cotton other apple arabidopsis brinjal canola papaya rose smartstax sugar beet tobacco trees wheat mammals mouse knockout mouse oncomouse enviropig herman the bull knockout rat other animals insects fish glofish salmon bacteria and viruses ice minus bacteria hepatitis b vaccine oncolytic virus processes inserting dna agrobacteria biolistics electroporation genetic transduction lipofection microinjection transfection types recombinant dna transgenesis cisgenesis uses in agriculture genetically modified food controversies pharming companies basf bayer dow agrosciences dupont pioneer monsanto syngenta in humans and diagnostics gene therapy genetic enhancement in research gene knockout gene knockdown gene targeting related articles transgene detection of genetically modified organisms genetic pollution genetic engineering in fiction human enhancement reverse transfection transhumanism regulation regulation of the release of gmos regulation of gmos in the european union regulation of gmos in switzerland cartagena protocol on biosafety geography us hawaii new zealand europe similar fields synthetic biology cloning stem cell research biology genetics biotechnology bioethics this fishing related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aquabounty technologies & oldid 739768596 categories genetically modified organisms in agricultureaquaculturebiotechnology companies of the united statestechnology companies established in 1991companies based in middlesex county massachusetts1991 establishments in the united statesfishing stubshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipediaall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 16 september 2016 at 21 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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