INCREASING EMBRYO SURVIVAL IN FARM-REARED ATLANTICS THE FOCUS OF US RESEARCH

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Greg Lambert, Freshwater Production Manager at Cooke Aquaculture USA, says he finds it "refreshing that Dr. Heather Hamlin and PhD candidate LeeAnne Thayer have chosen to address a specific issue important to the industry, rather than, as often happens, doing their own thing and then wanting the industry to apply the findings."The two researchers have been exploring the causes of reduced survival rates of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) embryos. Under Hamlin's direction at University of Maine's School of Marine Sciences, Thayer has been doing the research for her PhD thesis, exploring the possibility of a correlation between maternal plasma hormone and calcium concentrates and embryo survival and also, if environmental contaminants could be playing a role in reduced survival.