Gilthead seabream

• 15 years of modern breeding
  
• Moderate-high sophistication
  
• Large companies and SMEs
  

Main breeding traits

• Growth 
  
• Shape
  
• Lipid deposition
  

Pedigree tracing by genotyping

Important R&D challenges

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