The FDA is set to decide this year whether to approve the modified fish, which grows twice as fast as the natural variety.
If the salmon is approved, it would be the first time the government allowed such modified animals to be marketed for human consumption.
Young argued that the modified fish would compete with wild salmon in his state. Other critics have labeled the modified salmon a "frankenfish" that possibly could cause allergies in humans and eventually decimate the wild salmon population.
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