Intrexon Corporation, which has majority ownership of US-based GM salmon farmer AquaBounty Technologies, used its working capital to buy 1.5 million shares of common stock in the salmon company for a price tag of about $5 million (€4.1 million).

This is 41 percent of the shares Aquabounty announced earlier this week. Aquabounty was looking to raise $12 million (€9.8 million) through a new public offering of 3.7