Innovation & Investment
Increasing integration of various disruptive technologies into aquaculture practices will improve productivity and sustainability.
Health & Welfare
This study, involving more than 10 years of research on selective breeding, has shown that selective breeding can create considerable phenotypic divergence in rainbow trout lines when targeting a specific pathogen.
Intelligence
The history of shrimp farming in Ecuador, including technical development, genetic improvement, mangrove reforestation and sanitary barrier implementation.
Intelligence
More R&D and investment is needed to address various ongoing issues in shrimp farming, including genetic improvement, nutritional requirements and feed ingredients, health management and other issues.
Health & Welfare
In eight genetic improvement programs in seven different countries, growth improvements have been constant in all programs, with annual improvement rates between 5 and 12 percent. Improvements in survival rates are less predictable and less consistent.
Health & Welfare
This article from Australia’s CSIRO details the "race" to breed oysters genetically predisposed to resist Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS), a disease that is harmless to humans but so lethal to oysters that it can kill more than 90 percent of a crop of millions of animals within days.
Responsibility
A new breeding program for genetic improvement of red tilapia was established at the Fish Research Center (FRC), Suez Canal University, in Ismailia, Egypt. It aims to improve the growth rate of the fish and to provide significant benefits to tilapia farmers.
Health & Welfare
The authors are exploring alternative models for shrimp breeding that address genotype-environment interactions with solutions that could advance breeding in South and Central America.
Responsibility
Genetic improvement breeding programs for carp in a number of Asian countries have delivered genetically fast-growing strains to farmers and producers.
Health & Welfare
Breeding efforts at Aquatec Genearch Aquacultura in Brazil have centered on specific pathogen-free white shrimp lines imported from the United States.
Health & Welfare
Genetic improvements are designed to modify plants or animals for greater production performance in such targeted areas as growth or disease resistance.
Health & Welfare
A variety of external and internal tags have been developed over the past several decades to enable researchers to monitor aquatic animals.
Health & Welfare
A study of hybrid tilapia breeding represents the minimum scale needed for achieving successful, in-house selective breeding.
Health & Welfare
Aquaculture often fails to enhance productivity and competitiveness with genetic improvement, perhaps due to uncertainty over which methods should be used.
Health & Welfare
Critical to the success of genetic improvement and the breeding program at OI is the use of specific pathogen free (SPF) shrimp stocks.