Aqua Bounty is developing advanced-hybrid salmon, trout, and tilapia designed to grow faster than traditional fish. AquAdvantage® Salmon (AAS) reach market size twice as fast as traditional salmon. This advancement provides a compelling economic benefit to farmers (reduced growing cycle) as well as enhancing the economic viability of inland operations, thereby diminishing the need for ocean pens. AAS are also reproductively sterile, which eliminates the threat of interbreeding amongst themselves or with native populations, a major recent concern in dealing with fish escaping from salmon farms. As demonstrated in the growth chart on the left, the AquAdvantage® Salmon grow faster and reach mature size earlier than standard salmon, but they do not grow to be larger. Mature AAS are indistinguishable from their conventional counterparts