Thuesday the 8th of October in Silfurberg A at 13:15

Dr Jonas Jonasson, Head of Production Benchmark Genetics

Mature fish in general in fish farming causes poorer quality at harvest and downgrades the product getting a lower price on the market. Farming of fertile salmon can cause a threat to wild populations if salmon escape before or during maturity and mate with wild populations.  Using sterile salmon that will not mature in farming can prevent this as well as inhibiting maturity in farming increasing quality of the salmon product. In this talk, data will be presented for farming sterile all female triploids salmon in sea cages as well as discussing different R&D approach to mass produce sterile diploids in the near future.