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The head of a Norwegian tilapia firm has warned that the tilapia industry is falling behind in genetics and technology compared to the salmon industry. According to Morten Hoyum, managing director of research and breeding firm GenoMar, the tilapia industry has had comparatively poor investment in research and development compared to the salmon sector.

Hoyum said that development in the salmon industry has gone hand in hand with genetic enhancement, technological development and feed development, meaning that the industry is coming up with protocols that are supporting the genetic material. Salmon companies and government-sponsored research and development put hundreds of millions of dollars into genetics, feed development and technology to boost harvest weight, stocking density, breeding patterns, disease resistance and more, he said.

By comparison, the much dispersed and relatively poorly organised tilapia industry has so far largely failed to capitalise on genetic and technological enhancements. Hence, integration, consolidation and production of scale are the way forward, he said. GenoMar, he said, is now producing the 20th generation of tilapia, but the existing tilapia industry is still applying the same technology and management they did 20 years ago.

Tilapia is set to pass the three million metric ton mark at some point this year or so and many major producers see further potential in the sector. GenoMar is taking its first steps into 100 percent integration, leasing a processing factory in Malaysia to process its own fish and selling through its co-branded Trapia, or traceable tilapia, product into the USA. The company plans to gain processing experience through the rented plant, then build its own factory in 2011.

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