R&D
At Dagon, our innovation team works alongside world-class researchers to create advanced and groundbreaking projects.
The Grey Mullet all-female project
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Our all-female project is a joint project of Dagon and our collaborators in The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture. The project is managed together by both sides’ professional teams of researchers.
We've created a single-sexed all-female fish population, using our distinctive Broodstock consisting of males with feminine genotypes. We have succeeded in achieving better population growth rates of fish fingerlings.
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The White Grouper program
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Dagon's White Grouper R&D Program is now stepping into its final stages of establishing a steady, year-round egg-producing broodstock. Our broodstock genetic lines originate from endemic south Mediterranean Sea populations. The R&D team designed and built a grow-out facility (greenhouse with deep intensive ponds) to suit the White Grouper’s requirements.
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After years of gradual rearing and acclimatization to intensive-indoors conditions, we are on the brink of producing White Grouper eggs year-round and establishing a larvae-rearing multi-stage protocol.
The white grouper program's next phase - the construction of an in-house 250 tons grow-out facility is about to be executed over the next two years.