We measured body size corrected eye size in 4,000 salmon from six common garden experiments conducted under artificial and natural conditions, in freshwater and saltwater environments, in two countries. However, the impact of domestication on eye size has not been studied. Atlantic salmon breeding programmes were established in the early 1970s, resulting in genetic changes in multiple traits. In offspring of escaping fish and any hybrid progeny, such unintentionally altered traits may reduce fitness in the wild. The results suggest that future breeding programmes selecting for feed efficient fish will likely also result in faster-growing fish that regulate their feed intake, retain a higher proportion of ingested nutrient, and have reduced maintenance costs, all of which are expected to reduce feed costs and environmental loading without impacting production.ĭomestication leads to changes in traits that are under directional selection in breeding programmes, though unintentional changes in non‐production traits can also arise. Maximum metabolic rate and aerobic metabolic scope did not differ between FCR phenotypes. FCR efficient fish also had higher retention of protein, lipid and energy and lower rates of minimal metabolism. High DWG and low DFI were strongly correlated with FCR efficiency and DWG and DFI were also correlated. This study identified high and low FCR phenotypes in farmed saltwater Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and examined how the following physiological traits were correlated with FCR: daily feed intake (DFI), daily weight gain (DWG), protein, lipid and energy retention, and whole-animal metabolic oxygen consumption rates (including minimal and maximal metabolic rates and aerobic metabolic scope). To enable selection for improved FCR, it is important to understand how FCR differs within a species and what factors might also be associated with FCR efficiency as potential drivers. By improving FCR within a species, feed intake can be reduced for the same amount of growth, thus reducing feed costs and environmental impacts. income and cost.įeed conversion ratio (FCR) is the ratio between feed intake and weight gain. The context analysis is considered as the first step in building simulation model to quantify the impact of systems interfaces on the entire farming economics, i.e. The context analysis is a well-known method within systems engineering methodology to illustrate and extract critical interfaces. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the context of offshore fish farming and explore quantitative descriptions of its reinforcement and leveraging behaviours. escaping, stress-related disease) and leveraging behaviours (Biofouling-cleaning, Deterioration-maintenance) and all influenced by fluctuating and harsh environmental loads and conditions. It is a combination of reinforcing behaviours (Loads, cage deformations, welfare issues, e.g. The dynamic operational behaviour of each farming concept is quite complicated. These technological innovations are mainly targeting to innovate new farming concepts that dynamically stable, reliable and compatible with offshore environmental loads and conditions. Huge technological innovations are rapidly evolving toward developing competitive Offshore fish farming. The in-land and nearshore fish farming is facing capacity limitation and onshore push-out regulations. The complexity of developing profitable model that represent the offshore fish farming concepts and operations is related to the dynamic relationships among five main processes : fish welfare and growth process (eating, swimming, growing, ,, infection, ,, sea-lice growth, , escaping ), the production process (supply, storage, feeding, control the artificial conditions, energy consumption ), farm assets (stability, deterioration, bio-fouling ), farm services (net cleaning, infection treatment, maintenance), and the farm site and its environmental loads and conditions (waves, current velocities, water temperature, salinity rate, diseases, access-ability). The design concepts shall ultimately aim to increase the production rate (at least reduce losses) and cut-down the operating cost (energy, cleaning and maintenance), besides ensuring the environmental compatibility to withstand the harsh loading and operating conditions.
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