Geneticists are primarily responsible for ensuring a proper application of biotechnological methods in aquaculture and in protection of valuable natural fish stocks or endangered fish species
Fish Geneticists may also:
Provide assessments for decision makers or politicians involved in regulating
the sector
Publish scientific papers in international journals
Act as referees for the assessment of scientific articles or research projects
Relation to aquaculture
Within the aquaculture sector, the geneticist performs tasks including selective breeding, cryopreservation of milt, selection, hybridization, polyploidization, gene and genome manipulations, control of genetic and phenotypic sex
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