Breeding & genetics

Benchmark Genetics is one of the main suppliers of salmon ova for land-based production facilities – both RAS and flow-through – around the world. This has given them a unique insight into how the sector is developing, a…

Tilapia farmers in Vietnam will soon have access to a new source of fingerlings, following the opening of a GenoMar Genetics subsidiary in the Southeast Asian country.

Several aquaculture initiatives aim to reverse the decline of the Totoaba, a fish species that is only found in Mexican waters and has nearly been fished to extinction.

Eight urban aquaculture projects are among the 12 projects chosen to receive a share of $23 million in funding from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA).

Trout farmers are being offered an "affordable one-stop genetic broodstock health check", following the launch of a new service from Xelect.

Plans to create a pure breeding line of the rare and highly prized gold barramundi have been revealed by scientists at James Cook University (JCU).

Producing tilapia in marine environments offers a number of advantages over traditional freshwater farming of these fish – saltwater is more readily available in most countries, escaped fish are less likely to become inv…

Breeding oysters that are resistant to one of the costliest diseases affecting the oyster farming sector is one step closer, thanks to the work of scientists from Nofima.

Tilapia living in crowded aquaculture ponds or small freshwater reservoirs adapt so well to these stressful environments that they stop growing and reproduce at a smaller size than their stress-free counterparts.

Wild broodstock are still widely collected – both for aquaculture and for restocking purposes – but ensuring the health and welfare of these mature finfish requires careful capture and transport procedures.

Indian scientists have expressed high hopes of developing the commercial aquaculture of picnic sea bream (Acanthopagrus berda), following a major research breakthrough.

World Heritage Salmon (WHS), which aims to produce Atlantic salmon in a former mine in Norway, has entered into a five-year contractual agreement with Benchmark Genetics.

Rudi Ripman Seim (39) has been promoted to head of production Norway and global fish health at Benchmark Genetics, as the company looks to develop genetic lines of salmon that are suitable for offshore and land-based pro…

Genetirate, a biotechnology company focused on increasing the growth rates in commercial aquaculture species, has been acquired by IMV Technologies.

Heterosis, the well-known concept of “hybrid vigour”, has been utilised to improve fitness-related traits – like growth, fecundity and disease resistance – in a number of cultured aquatic species over the years.

The first commercial-scale hatchery-produced grey mullet to have been produced in India have now been sent out to fish farmers in three states.

After five years of extensive research and breeding trials, Genomar introduces new disease-resistant strains of tilapia.

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.