Breeding salmon for growth or resistance to sea lice in cold waters may have little effect if the offspring grow up in warmer waters.

NewTechAqua is a EU-funded project will test and develop new solutions for European aquaculture.

AquaIMPACT is a EU-funded research project that integrates breeding and nutrition to increase the competitiveness of the EU's aquaculture of Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, gilthead sebream and European seabass, to ensure food and nutritional security and to satisfy consumers' demands for high quality seafood with limited environmental impact.

European fish breeders can now integrate tools and technologies developed in FISHBOOST into their breeding programmes.

Just before Christmas, Prof. Emeritus Trygve Gjedrem will celebrate his 88th birthday by closing the office doors for one final time, leaving Nofima in Norway after a long life spent in the service of science. What inspired him to keep going for so long?

Never has the survival of juvenile cod been as high at the food research institute Nofima. Systematic improvements in all aspects of management have made a difference.

At this land-based research station at Sunndalsøra with fresh water, seawater and recirculated water, we can carry out biological and technological experiments along the complete aquaculture value chain.

The centre and its associated marine facility are designed for breeding cod, but also offer outstanding facilities for other types of trials with cod and other marine species.

The European research project FISHBOOST will advance European aquaculture to the next level. Nofima is coordinating this FP7 project.

We do research and provide services for the development and operation of aquaculture breeding programs, where the use of genomic information plays a central part.