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Oct 27, 2016

AquAdvantage salmon: climate-smart aquaculture

Climate change is real. The impacts on wild harvest fisheries and marine aquaculture are already being felt. Little did the scientists creating a faster growing Atlantic salmon in 1989 realize that their innovative work using the new tools of molecular genetics enabling gene transfer would lead to a potential solution for enhanced seafood production in a rapidly changing and increasingly unpredictable climate. Read the article. This article was originally published in the European Aquaculture Society special issue of Fish Farming Expert magazine.