Ocean pout live in frigid waters from Labrador in Canada to North Carolina and have evolved a blood protein that serves as antifreeze. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Ocean Pout: These pretty cool fish, literally, produce a protein that acts like antifreeze in the blood, letting them thrive in icy waters.

It's a transgenic fish, the first genetically engineered animal under review for the U.S. food supply. Embedded in every cell of its body are genes from the Chinook salmon and the ocean pout fish ...

Genetically modified fish spark debate 01:35. ... AquaBounty produced the fish by altering Atlantic salmon with genetic material from Chinook salmon and Ocean Pout.

ALBANY, Ind. — After touring a land-based fish farm that is preparing to raise genetically engineered salmon, U.S. Senator Todd Young is ready to eat. But he'll have to wait, even though these ...

Yes, a drug — a Chinook Salmon/Atlantic Salmon/ocean pout genetic construct that “medicates” fish to help them grow faster. But the issue is much larger than this narrow definition.

They also added a so-called promoter gene from ocean pout fish which turns the growth gene on. Sylvia Wulf: They eat and eat and eat. And so they grow faster, not larger, faster.

The pout's promoter gene basically makes sure the Chinook growth gene never gets shut off. Voila: a mega-fish. So why did AquAdvantage take so long getting to market?

Ocean pout live in frigid waters from Labrador in Canada to North Carolina and have evolved a blood protein that serves as antifreeze.