Selection and Breeding Programs in Aquaculture

Although aquaculture as a biological production system has a long history, systematic and efficient breeding programs to improve economically important traits in the farmed species have rarely been utilized until recently, except for salmonid species. This means that the majority of aquaculture production (more than 90 %) is based on genetically unimproved sks. In farm animals the situation is vastly different: practically no terrestrial farm production is based on genetically unimproved an...