It’s a bad headline. Technically it’s always been legal to eat GMO salmon. What hasn’t been necessarily legal was selling and serving it for human consumption.
Somehow, a line of excess has been crossed between the place where it was not illegal to sell deathly poisonous spoiled olives (though one could get sued), and this. It is the country’s fault for letting “those who meddle with us for ‘our own good’” have the helm. Just because you SAY you are going to be a watchdog, doesn’t mean you aren’t a wolf....