Breeding & genetics

The aquaculture industry could soon be producing Pacific bonito, a small tuna species, after wild-caught specimens were able to successfully spawn in an RAS.

Adam Taylor, founder of the largest tilapia producer in Africa, sees huge scope for improvements in the sector - in particular driven by advances in nutrition and genetics.

Genetic rewiring could have driven an evolutionary explosion in the shapes, sizes and adaptations of cichlid fish, in a breakthrough that could be significant for tilapia breeding programmes in aquaculture.

FirstWave Group, Africa’s largest tilapia producer, recently signed a partnership agreement with Xelect to develop local high-performance tilapia breeds.

After decades of frustration, one of the least well-known elements of the aquaculture industry, frog farming, could be poised for growth.

The offspring of salmon that have been bred to be more resistant to sea lice may not be so resistant in warmer waters, according to new research by Nofima.

The multibillion-dollar marine aquarium trade has a mixed reputation, with many specimens being captured from the world’s coral reefs. However, a number of pioneers are now farming marine ornamentals – offering hope for …

A change in business model seems to be paying off for Europe’s best-known tilapia breeder.

Armed with a homemade submersible cage and a determination to start farming a species that was in decline in the wild, veteran trout farmer Jeff Tuerk decided to establish the North America’s only lake whitefish farm.

Different families of lumpfish show marked differences in lice grazing, cataract prevalence and size, pointing to the possibility of breeding fish that are more effective at the removal of sea lice from farmed salmon, ac…

A brand-new aquaculture facility has been opened in the New Zealand port of Tauranga as part of a $13 million algal biotechnology research project.

Plans to establish a hatchery to produce brackish water finfish species including Asian seabass, milkfish and pearl spot for on-growing by Indian aquaculture companies have been announced this week.

A new study has revealed the scale of hybridization taking place between native and introduced tilapia in Tanzania.

Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in cultivating red signal sea cucumbers as far as the juvenile stage in captivity for the first time.

Desmond Chow, the founder of Singapore Crawfish, is so convinced that crayfish aquaculture is ripe for investment that he’s spent the past two years, and considerable amounts of his own capital, developing a range of cra…

Plans to establish a shrimp broodstock multiplication centre in Indonesian have been announced by Hendrix Genetics today.

One of the most comprehensive studies of wild Atlantic salmon genetics, which aims to gauge the impact of any interbreeding between wild and escaped farm-raised salmon, has been launched today.

The fledgling oyster farming industry along the Texas Gulf Coast has a promising outlook for 2021 and beyond.

When considering ongoing genetic improvement efforts in tilapia culture, comparisons with the development of the modern chicken industry often present themselves.

Benchmark's tilapia genetics company Spring Genetics has signed a five-year broodstock agreement with oe of Africa's leading tilapia producers, Lake Harvest Group.