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Meet AquaIMPACT in Aquaculture Europe 2023 in Vienna! We will contribute with plenary presentations, scientific presentations, booths and host a public Final Conference in AE2023 conference. Meet our researchers and discuss about the latest results and the future of aquaculture.   Final Conference, open to public Monday 18th September. 13:30-17:00 AquaIMPACT (Breeding & genomics / nutrition & genetics) Final Conference (open to all). Read more   Plenary presentations Antti Kause. …

AquaIMPACT organised a webinar series together with AQUA-FAANG covering different aspects of genomic applications in aquaculture. Recordings are now publicly available! Genomic editing & future advances – Future advances of using genomics in breeding programs Disease resistance & immune response – European Seabass case study Using genomics now and in future in aquaculture – Pedigree-based and genomic selection in aquaculture breeding

This time the focus for the newsletter is on genomic selection in aquaculture. AquaIMPACT is a major effort to integrate the fields of fish breeding and nutrition to increase the competitiveness of EU’s aquaculture of Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, gilthead sea bream and European sea bass, to ensure food and nutrition security, and to satisfy consumer demands for high-quality seafood with limited environmental impact. During the last four years, AquaIMPACT …

Savon Taimen, established in 1967, is a leading Finnish fingerling provider of rainbow trout. Savon Taimen and its subsidiaries form a group of fish farming companies producing salmonid fingerlings for aquaculture and for re-stocking purposes. The group of companies consists of two parent companies. Hanka-Taimen Oy and its subsidiaries are specialised in hatchery operations and fingerling and smolt production. Savon Taimen Oy and its subsidiaries focus on fry production and …

The Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh (UEDIN) undertakes basic and applied research focused on the genetics and health of farmed animal species, developing biotechnological innovations for the livestock and aquaculture industry. The active and expanding Roslin Aquaculture Genetics research group aims to improve selective breeding of finfish and shellfish via a broad range of genetics and genomics approaches. The Roslin Institute is equipped with state-of-the-art genomics and bioinformatics …

Our result shows that genomic selection can be accurately implemented with much lower number of SNP markers than is currently available by many genotyping services. This was demonstrated by genomic evaluations of survival against infection of Flavobacterium columnare bacteria in rainbow trout. The creation of SNP panels consisting of 3,000-7,000 informative SNPs would be one way to reduce genotyping costs and to adopt genomic selection in more broodstocks worldwide.   …

Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) is a non-profit public research organisation operating under the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Luke is the leading Finnish research institute in the bioeconomy sector, providing scientific information and new innovations for the industry. Luke’s Breeding and Genomics group is an international top-quality group in developing and applying genetics, genomics and statistics in commercial animal breeding programmes and in developing breeding value estimation methods …

Flavobacterium columnare is the etiological cause of columnaris disease, which predominantly manifests itself as ulcerations of the gills and of the skin. Mortality due to columnaris disease is especially high in young fish in warm water, reducing fish welfare and causing significant losses to aquaculture industry. We validated the usefulness of genomic selection for survival to columnaris disease in rainbow trout, and implemented the methods in the commercial broodstocks with …

Sea food is a healthy food choice. An average person living in the EU consumes 24 kg (live weight) of fish or seafood per year and this is 3.3 kg more than in the rest of the world (EU Facts and Figures, 2022). Sea food consumption has increased for centuries, and the world food fish consumption in 2030 is projected to be 18% higher than in 2018 (FAO, 2020). Aquaculture …

Aquaculture is becoming an increasingly attractive source of food production. Growing at a 2.2% rate from 1990 to 2020 to reach an outstanding sum of 90 million tonnes per year, it has gained popularity for its sustainability and high-quality seafood production. An EU project, AquaIMPACT, is supporting this growth by looking at the fish gut microbiota, the community of living microorganisms that harmoniously inhabit the fish gut. The keys behind …