Aquaculture
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When building scenarios, we take into account main driving forces and restrictions.


The main driving forces in aquaculture breeding are:
- Minimize environmental impact
- Use of sustainable feed resources
- Safety and consumer acceptability
- Acceptable price
- Maintain animal integrity


The main restrictions are:
- Limit in increase of inbreeding/generation to 0,5 to 1 % per generation (FAO)

Based on these starting points, two following two extreme scenarios for aquaculture breeding in 2020 were designed:


Two Scenarios for Aquaculture Breeding in 2020

 1. High production, low cost 2. Niche markets for exclusive species
Breeding Industry
  • Few large companies dominate world market
  • Few species reared in big volume at low price
  • Higher number of breeding companies per species
  • Many species are reared for smaller markets (regional, organic, labelled)
Reasons for the Situation
  • Higher production volume and external investment of 2 or 3 companies per species
  • This gives access to latest scientific
    innovations (genomics, proteomics) to produce the best performing animals
  • Consumers ask for diversified species with specific traits
  • Consumers are willing to pay for extra-value products
Breeding Goals
  • Growth
  • Processing performance and flesh quality
  • Disease resistance
  • Growth
  • Quality (body shape, flesh quality)
  • Survival and disease resistance
Breeding Methods
  • Up-to-date selection methods, incl. genomics and biotechnologies
  • Few lines per species
  • Monosexing/sterilisation by triploidy
  • Cloning
  • Multitrait selection
  • Few lines per species
  • Monosexing/sterilisation by triploidy
  • Cloning