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.

A collaborative project between Norway and India has discovered markers for genes that control resistance against the bacterial disease Aeromoniasis in rohu carp. Aeromoniasis is a devastating disease that affects aquaculture of this and many other carp species throughout the world.