Acronym COMPETUS
Category
Aquaculture
Title Genetic improvement of farmed sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax: Strain testing and response to selection Programme FP6
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP6 - SMEs-Co-operative Research Contract
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Specific Research Activities for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Béatrice Chatain Coordinator email beatrice.chatain@ifremer.fr
Coordinator institution
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France)
Institutions involved
NA - Ardag Agricultural Cooperative Society Ltd (Israel) ,
NA - Ecloserie Marine de Gravelines (France) ,
INRA - French National Institute for Agricultural Research (France) ,
SYSAAF - French Poultry and Aquaculture Breeders Association (France) ,
IOLR - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (Israel) ,
NA - Italian Experimental Institute Lazzaro Spallanzani (Italy) ,
LPDS - Les Poissons du Soleil (France) ,
MEDFRI - Mediterranean Fisheries Research Production and Training Institute (Turkey) ,
NA - Tinamenor SA (Spain) ,
UNIUD - University of Udine (Italy) ,
NA - Viveiro Vila Nova SA (Portugal) ,
Start year 2005 End year 2008 Funding (€) € 953,540 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/17633/it Summary "Since several years, overproduction of sea bass and sea bream in Europe has provoked a severe diminution of retail price of commercial size fish and producers have seen their profit margins decreasing dramatically. In such a depressed and saturated market, optimization of production processes is not anymore sufficient to recover the narrow profit margin of industrialists. Genetic selection should give the opportunity to acquire a sustainable competitiveness, with the possibility to supply the market with seeds improved for a simple but economically sensitive criterion: growth rate, which remains one of the main breeding goals of fish farmers. Nevertheless, today, the Mediterranean aquaculture industry is not yet deeply involved in such programs. It seems that not enough critical information regarding efficiency of breeding programs or necessary means to set them up, has reached the sector decision makers. The aim of Competus is to fill this gap providing to the participating SMEs, this lacking information, i.e.:- Performance comparison (based on measurement of several traits of commercial interest) of the 3 geographic and genetically differentiated wild sea bass populations. - Assessment and comparison to a control line, of the genetic progress of two 1rst generation selected sea bass populations derived from classical individual selection and optimized individual selection (called PROSPER).- A detailed description of the studied selection approaches and their associated costs.
At the end of the project, participating SMEs will have the basic information necessary to evaluate the opportunity to implement such programs in their own facilities and adequate fish to start with. Competus will also test the PROSPER selection strategy developed for small to medium-scale breeding programs and that was exclusively used in French aquaculture up now. Here, it will be described to fish farmers of other EU members or associated states."
Keywords
Genetic;
Selective breeding;
Broodstocks;
Seabass;
Fish;
Marine Region
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
73
Azov Sea (GSA 30)
46
Corsica Island (GSA 8)
58
Southern Ionian Sea (GSA 21)
47
Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
55
Algeria (GSA 4)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
64
Crete Island (GSA 23)
63
Marmara Sea (GSA 28)
56
Alboran Island (GSA 2)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
71
South of Sicily (GSA 16)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
59
Black Sea (GSA 29)
51
Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1)
69
Gulf of Gabes (GSA 14)
66
Cyprus Island (GSA 25)
65
North Levant (GSA 24)
67
Levant (GSA 27)
53
Northern Spain (GSA 6)
49
Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
70
Malta Island (GSA 15)
72
Gulf of Hammamet (GSA 13)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
57
Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3)
52
Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1)
75
Northern Tunisia (GSA 12)
68
South Levant (GSA 26)
54
Balearic Island (GSA 5)
50
Sardinia (east) (GSA 11.2)
31
Marine Region Map
