Health & Welfare
Martec and Xelect partner on spotted rose snapper genetics program
Costa Rica's Martec has partnered with Scottish genetics company Xelect to ramp up production of spotted rose snapper through modern techniques.
Health & Welfare
An estimation model identifies genetic variances across mating combinations for stress resistance traits and families with heightened stress tolerance.
Health & Welfare
Costa Rica's Martec has partnered with Scottish genetics company Xelect to ramp up production of spotted rose snapper through modern techniques.
Health & Welfare
To combat white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in white shrimp, Corporación Centro de Investigación de la Acuacultura de Colombia (CENIACUA) initiated a selective-breeding program to develop resistance in shrimp.
Responsibility
Natural factors, institutional support and a big appetite for fish have all contributed to the growth of aquaculture in Ghana, where about 80 percent of all farmed fish is tilapia.
Health & Welfare
Since 2001, Moana Technologies has worked toward providing domesticated, genetically improved and specific pathogen-free (SPF) black tiger shrimp to farmers in Asia. Based in Hawaii, USA, Moana built a breeding base on wild-caught broodstock from seven locations in Asia.
Health & Welfare
A research partnership focused on Atlantic salmon selective breeding aims to improve growth and resistance to amoebic gill disease in Tasmanian salmon.
Health & Welfare
Traditionally, Australian farmers relied on wild broodstock to source black tiger shrimp larvae, but substantial progress has been made in the domestication and selective breeding of Australian P. monodon.
Health & Welfare
Although the application of selective breeding and genetics can yield dramatic results, the use of genetically improved stock varies widely among aquaculture sectors. Virtually all Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout producers use improved stock, while use of genetically improved tilapia varies widely.
Health & Welfare
Collaborative work at Great Southern Waters has established a closed, genetically diverse breeding population of hybrid abalone. The breeding strategy is to produce and improve commercial stocks with the required hybrid traits by understanding the inheritance of those traits in the pure species and the hybrids.
Aquafeeds
Biotechnology offers a potential avenue to overcoming the negative traits of seeds and enhancing feed performance to improve fish health.
Health & Welfare
Although selection in fish is progressing rapidly, slower adaption to captivity over several generations can limit animal welfare problems.
Health & Welfare
The farm operations and hatchery at Aquamarina de la Costa in Venezuela are based on broodstock and larvae of the species Litopenaeus vannamei.