{"id":1212,"date":"2014-02-19T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2014\/02\/19\/fishboost-for-aquaculture\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:32:39","slug":"fishboost-for-aquaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/aquaculture\/fishboost-for-aquaculture\/","title":{"rendered":"FISHBOOST for aquaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nofima, along with research, industry and NGO partners from nine European countries, will address the cost benefits of implementing selective breeding in aquaculture production for six species &#8211; Atlantic salmon, common carp, European sea bass, gilthead sea bream, rainbow trout and turbot.<\/p>\n<p>The launch meeting was opened by Professor Trygve Gjedrem from Nofima, who pointed out that in 2010 only 10% of world aquaculture production was based on genetically improved stock from family based breeding programmes, which he said was a shame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we will find some answers to what it takes to increase the 10%, and guide aquaculture producers to implement selective breeding in their production\u201d, says Anna Sonesson from Nofima, coordinator of the project.<\/p>\n<p>A mixture of low and high-tech approaches will be developed, including aspects of social science, to move the breeding programmes of the six fin fish species to the next level. This step-change advance to the next level means facilitating balanced and sustainable breeding programmes covering a wide range of traits, breeding tools and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The five year comprehensive research project is funded by the European Commission through the 7th research framework programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A European project, FISHBOOST, which aims to advance European aquaculture to the next level, was launched this week at the Norwegian institute, Nofima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}