Growth hormone transgenic Coho salmon exhibit significantly greater growth rates than selectively bred Coho salmon, in a variety of production conditions and experimental designs, according to emerging research from the Pacific Science Enterprise Centre.
Despite a number of challenges that still need to be overcome, genome sequencing has a growing range of practical applications in aquaculture and, as costs come down, it is going to be increasingly widely used.
In the second part of the feature, Professor Ross Houston, who is currently involved in using gene editing to improve resistance to diseases in salmon, explains the barriers – technical, regulatory and ethical – that need to be overcome before such techniques …
The benefits that salmon farmers obtain by sourcing their stocks from cutting-edge breeding programmes are chronically undervalued, according to a new study.
