Atlantic salmon

• 40 years of modern breeding
  
• High sophistication
  
• Large or highly specialised companies
  

 
Main breeding traits

• Growth 
  
• Deformations
  
• Fillet color
  
• Disease resistance
  

Pedigree tracing by separating families

Important R&D challenges 

• Enhance production: diseases, FE, adaption to novel diets
  
• Enhance breeding: sequencing, avoidance of sib testing
  
• High need for genomics for next level of breeding