Over a period of several years, Nofima researchers and partners have developed a promising method for sterilising salmon – an outcome that means they can’t interbreed with wild salmon should they escape from farms, as well as potentially improve their meat quality, and reduce disease and mortality rates.
There are several ways to sterilise salmon, such as triploidisation and gene editing. However, triploid salmon have been rejected as an option in Norway due to welfare issues and the use of gene modified salmon in production is still not permitted…