Optimizing the health and husbandry of aquatic life.

Build robust healthy populations with feed, environmental, husbandry and smoltification research studies, across a variety of species.

Healthy production of aquatic species is impacted by dozens of variables and parameters; finding the right combination requires experience and a variety of tools.

What was working can suddenly stop without obvious reasons or signals

All breeding stock aren’t created equally, selection can impact survival rates

Cost and environmental impact can inhibit scalability and overall profitability

Enhance production with experiments customized to match the parameters on your farms.

Custom-designed family, environmental and smolt studies provide insight into the leading factors contributing to the growth, health and well-being of aquatic livestock, helping you focus on what matters most.

Build healthy family stock

Specialized breeding programs provide clarity and insight into which families have the best survival rates under certain parameters.

Identify key smoltification variables

Identify the ideal handling, vaccination, temperature and salinity variations including sea transfer parameters related to smolt success, to ensure less stress and susceptibility to disease.

Test multiple stressor profiles

Understand the effects of nutrition, commercial treatments and environmental changes by testing multiple stressors to determine physiologically optimal product use and timing.

Disinfection & Neutralization

Identify protocols that ensure clean equipment, water and aquaculture systems to prevent cross- contamination and environmental impacts.

Get the bigger picture on the health of your farm + stock.

Research that uses your unique stock and parameters.

Using your own breeding stock and unique parameters and pathogens, we custom design research studies and challenge models that provide clarity on the factors most impacting your aquatic species. 

  • Family Studies

    Screen hundreds of families simultaneously using the isolates causing the problem in studies with easy pathogen transfer.

  • Lifecycle Studies

    Optimize life-cycle parameters through a multifactorial approach and assess outcomes ranging from fillet quality, to disease resistance and smoltification.

  • Disinfection Studies

    Validate effluent treatment systems and disinfection protocols for regulatory approval while optimizing farm and hatchery SOPs to prevent cross-contamination and manage pathogen risks.

AQUATIC PERFORMANCE CASE STUDY

Revolutionizing Resistance: The Role of CRISPR in Combating Sea Lice in Salmonids

Dr. Fast and his team have identified mechanisms of resistance to sea lice in Pacific salmon collaborating with the experts at Onda’s AQC3 lab in Atlantic Canada, demonstrating the successful application of CRISPR gene editing techniques in Coho salmon.