Salmon Ova

Salmon

Overview

We provide the global Atlantic salmon industry with robust and disease-free salmon eggs every week of the year. Our products are the result of long-term breeding programs and intensive innovation, focused on solving our clients’ challenges and opportunities. Today, we are operating in-house programs for three strains in Norway, Iceland, and Chile mainly produced at land-based facilities to ensure the industry’s highest levels of biosecurity.

Products

Why choose our salmon genetics?

We are delivering ova world-wide every week of the year, produced in several locations and geographies

We ensure the highest levels of biosecurity for the welfare of our animals and quality of our product

Product portfolio adapted to systems, customer demands and challenges

Comprehensive in-house breeding program and R&D competences using the latest genomic technologies

Our production is certified according to Global Good Agricultural Practices (GLOBAL G.A.P.), European Forum of Farm Animal Breeders (EFFAB), ISO, and Organic (Debio/Tun) certifications. Besides, Benchmark Genetics Iceland is certified according to the RSPCA (Freedom Food) standard for export to the U.K. You find our certificates here

Salmon ova

Norwegian origins

The three strains we are operating all have their origins from some of Norway’s most prominent salmon rivers. They were collected and domesticated for farming in the mid 70” and early 80”. Since then they have undergone significant genetic development through systematic breeding and selection. The breeding programs’ structure, where the males are selected directly from the breeding nucleus, ensures a higher genetic gain per generation than by selection from dissemination lines.

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The Benchmark Genetics way

Conventionally, broodstock has been produced in the sea and only transferred to land in the very last period before spawning for temperature and light manipulation to induce maturation.

Such a production strategy is associated with risks for the producer as the broodstock spends one year more in the sea than the commercial salmon. Risks of losses caused by diseases, the introduction of pathogens, attachment of sea lice, and risks of escape are all associated with production in the sea.

Healthy salmon gills

Adapted to your production systems

Whether we’re talking sea- or land-based farming, we provide solutions for each.

Our product concepts SalmoPrime, SalmoBoost and SalmoRobust are targeted for sea-farming and offers high genetic potential for freshwater and seawater growth performance, strong resistance to specific diseases including IPN and CMS, and high robustness in our customer’s typical farm environments.

 

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