Genetics Week: Hatchery Hack: How to put a $-value to your broodstock
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Editor's Note 
 
Welcome to our Genetics Week. This newsletter contains new and evergreen stories on breeding and genetics, beneficial for your business. At the end of the week, we have part 1 of a new webinar series coming up, HI Advantage: Applied Genetics series.
- Seyitan Moritiwon, Associate editor
 
TOP STORIES 
 

NOAA study detects bitter crab disease earlier using genetics

A NOAA Fisheries study has shown that genetics enable earlier detection of a lethal disease in Tanner and snow crabs. Scientists used sensitive genetic detection methods to examine crabs collected during the NOAA Fisheries annual bottom trawl survey in the eastern Bering Sea from 2015 to 2017 and estimated the annual prevalence of bitter crab disease. 


Xelect marks 10 years of success in aquaculture genetics

Aquaculture genetics company, Xelect Ltd., is celebrating 10 years of its genetic selection program.  The company started out as a spin-off from the University of St Andrews, founded by then director of the Scottish Oceans Institute, Prof. Ian Johnston, and his PhD student, Tom Ashton.


 
 
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Hatchery Hack: How to put a $-value to your broodstock

Whether during business planning, valuing your business for sale, or calculating insurance value, at some point every hatchery will be asked to put a dollar value on their broodstock. This is often where the debate begins, not only because each of these valuations is entirely different, but also because there is no agreed-upon market price for broodstock in our industry. » Read More...
 
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New catfish hybrid wants to be the “poultry of aquaculture” in the Philippines

The evolution of catfish restarted in the Philippines with Hito Central Philippines’ launch of the hybrid, Hityan, “a more culture-friendly catfish strain,” in Q1 2024. Owner Joel Sims told Hatchery International that the catfish industry in the Philippines was long overdue for diversification. “Hityan, a hybrid of three Clarias species, is an attempt to solve this and create a genetically fresh line of broodstock for our Filipino catfish growers.” » Read More...
 
 
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Benchmark Genetics studies disease resistance in whiteleg shrimp

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Novo Holdings completes acquisition of Benchmark Genetics

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Salmon genetics expert Serap Gonen joins Benchmark as genomics lead

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Hatchery International launches new webinar series on applied genetics

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Events 
 

42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference

April 29-May 2, 2025
Santa Cruz, California
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International Seaweed Symposium 2025

May 4-9, 2025
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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