The over-all goal and vision for project
- to produce rainbow trout strains with genes responsible for innate resistance to bacterial and parasitic diseases
- to reduce environmental impact, reduce drug application, improve fish welfare, increase production and improve farm economy significantly by securing disease resistant trout in Danish (and later international) aquaculture
- secure sustainable fish production - made possible by use of new technology
- to elevate the Danish export of trout eggs with inherent disease resistance and increase the world market share – based on branding of disease resistant trout
Objectives
In order to reach these aims our specific objectives of the project are:
- Identify breeding lines carrying genes encoding innate resistance towards bacterial and parasitic pathogens
- Identify genes or gene markers correlated with innate resistance against the main diseases in rainbow trout farming
- Map genomic location of resistance genes in rainbow trout
- Apply genotyping results to select disease resistant trout strains
- Bring resistant rainbow strains to the market