Year-round production of atlantic salmon ova and selective breeding the key to success at icelandic hatchery

摘要

These are the first lines of the Immigrant Song written by Led Zeppelin over 30 years ago. Some say they wrote it about Iceland after one of their tours. It also describes Stofnfiskur's unique position in the world ova market, using the natural geothermal heat and abundant fresh water in Iceland to produce disease free-salmon eggs year-round in a country native to Atlantic salmon. Worldwide, salmon farming continues to gain momentum, a fact reflected in the global production of 1,257,000 tons in 2005. Many countries now have the ability to transfer smolts into the sea more or less year-round. This is done by using recirculation facilities with high rearing temperatures (12-16°C) and light manipulation to trigger smoltification.,