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The main goals of this session are to present an overview of the recent advances in fish breeding procedures, the state of the art of genetic knowledge in marine fish species and the potential of application of genetic technologies to improve carcass and flesh quality and disease resistance. These different topics will be discussed and the main future orientation of the EU producers will be defined during the round table discussion.

Pierrick Haffray has managed selection programs for 14 French SME members of the French Union of Poultry and Aquaculture Breeders (SYSAAF) since 1991 for rainbow and brown trout, turbot, sea bass and sea bream. He is involved in the improvement of the procedures of selection with definition of new traits, automation of genotyping, on-farm sperm cryopreservation, optimisation of triploidisation and use of spawning inducers.

 Contact details: haffray@beaulieu.rennes.inra.fr