The new star of aquaculture is the German-Hungarian hybrid catfish

Breeders are confident that a new type of catfish under the commercial name SilGen will compete with salmon Gábor Hetjei, head of the Budapest-based organization that helped develop a new variety of catfish after a decade of research, is confident that the new fried catfish will impress any gourmet! His non-profit organization Kseris coordinated the SilGen project to showcase the promise of fish farming, also known as aquaculture. The new species of catfish developed as a result of this initiative is able to quickly adapt to different breeding conditions, grows rapidly and is disease resistant. “One of the main outcomes of the project was a newly developed German-Hungarian hybrid catfish, developed from two excellent but unrelated lines,” says Hetje. Aquaculture will be critical to providing enough food for the growing world population of 8 billion now as the oceans and seas have already reached the limit of overfishing. As you know, fish is part of a healthy diet because it ...