Breeding & genetics

With the salmon farming industry under increasing pressure to negate the impact that escapees have on wild stocks, John Taylor and Herve Migaud from the University of Stirling look at the production of sterile salmon through an triplody.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming roho labeo.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming channel catfish.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming bighead carp.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming silver carp.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Eucheuma seaweed.

New studies of cod genes show that as much as 75 per cent of marine proteins can be replaced by plant proteins in feed for farmed Atlantic cod without triggering stress genes.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Chinese river crab.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax Linnaeus).

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming common carp (Cyprinidae).

The crawfish or 'crayfish' industry is continuing to grow in certain areas of the world. This article looks at the life cycle, burrow requirements, molting and nutritional needs of two specific species - the red swamp crawfish and the white river crawfish.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus Valenciennes).

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming American cupped oyster (Ostreidae).

It's known that escaped fish from Norwegian salmon farms can interbreed with wild salmon, and thus must have changed the genetic and physical makeup of the country's famed wild salmon stocks, says the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Pacific cupped oyster (Crassostrea gigas).

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming mrigal carp (Cirrhinus mrigala).

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming milkfish - from sourcing fry to marketing milkfish globally.