European seabass

• 20 years of modern breeding
  
• Moderate sophistication
  
• SMEs
  

Main breeding traits

• Growth 
  
• Shape
  
• Sex ratio
  

Pedigree tracing by genotyping

Important R&D challenges

• Enhance production: diseases, FE, fillet%
  
• Enhance breeding: non-lethal ways of improving FE and fillet%, markers for disease
  
• Need for genomics for next level of breeding for disease