AquaBounty Technologies is a biotechnology company, engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of products that improve aquaculture productivity.

Products

The company is most famous for its creation and patenting of the AquAdvantage® Salmon

Genetically modified salmon

Genetically modified salmon is an Atlantic salmon, modified by adding a growth hormone regulating gene from a Pacific Chinook salmon and a promoter from an ocean pout to the Atlantic's 40,000 genes. These genes enable it to eat year-round, instead of only during spring and summer...

 (AAS) a sterile Atlantic salmon

Atlantic salmon

The Atlantic salmon is a species of fish in the family Salmonidae, which is found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and in rivers that flow into the north Atlantic and the north Pacific....

 female with a Chinook salmon

Chinook salmon

The Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, is the largest species in the pacific salmon family. Other commonly used names for the species include King salmon, Quinnat salmon, Spring salmon and Tyee salmon...

 gene that can grow to market size in half the time of conventional salmon. The company also produces antifreeze proteins; and conducts research and development programs related to the commercialization of cryo preservatives

Cryopreservation

Cryopreservation is a process where cells or whole tissues are preserved by cooling to low sub-zero temperatures, such as 77 K or −196 °C . At these low temperatures, any biological activity, including the biochemical reactions that would lead to cell death, is effectively stopped...

and the antifreeze gene constructs.