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First to see up close and actually taste this mysterious fish. fda scientists rule as safe as food from conventional atlantic salmon. this is what they call franken fish. >> beautiful salmon. >> reporter: the difference. size. this is a 1-year-old salmon dwarfed by a salmon of the same page. they merge the dna of three fish into one. taking dna from a chinook salmon and eel to produce a salmon that grows fact from birth. >> get to market ten months before any salmon out there. >> reporter: the fish are ready for market and the company awaits fda approval. have we gone too far. >> a whole anoth...

Frankenfish. fish that are a cross between three species bred to grow faster. yummy. >> it could end up on your plate in the near future. as you might expect there is some serious opposition out there to eating dinner that's been engineered by scientists. abc's jim avila has more. >> reporter: behind padlocked gates and barbed wire fences in panama grows what could be a landmark change in what we eat. shades of jurassic park where movie scientists played with dinosaur dna. here actual scientists grow a dna altered salmon, producing the first bio-engineered meat on track for human consumption. ...

There's a reason that animals were created and supposed to stay exactly how they are. no cross-pollination here. interesting, little chance a salmon could escape and breed. and if that happens, if they bred with some of the other wild fiduciary, that could disrupt everything. but there's -- if the frankenfish got together with other fish. freaky fish! >> chaos. nothing wrong with a freak every now and then. i knew willis would enjoy that. still to come, getting ready for the end of the world. as the countdown to the end of the mayan calendar draws near, we'll meet a man who is making sur...

>> this is what they call franken fish. >> this is a beautiful, healthy atlantic salmon. >> reporter: the difference. size. this is a 1-year-old salmon dwarfed by a salmon of the same page. they merge the dna of three fish into one. taking dna from a chinook salmon and from a sea eel fro deuce an atlantic salmon that grows fast from birth. >> get to market ten months before any salmon out there. >> reporter: the fish are ready for market and the company now awaits final fda approval, but have we gone too far. >> it's a whole other section of the grocery store for the technology that we think i...

There's a reason that animals were created and supposed to stay exactly how they are. no cross-pollination here. interesting, little chance a salmon could escape and breed. if that happens, bred with wild fish they could disrupt everything. but there's -- if the frankenfish got together with other fish. freaky fish! >> chaos. a freak every now and then. i knew willis would enjoy that. still to come, getting ready for the end of the world. as the countdown to the end of the mayan calendar draws near, we'll meet a man who is making sure he is ultra prepared, maybe even a little weird. >> a...