R&D
At Dagon, our innovation team works alongside world-class researchers to create advanced and groundbreaking projects.
The Grey Mullet all-female project
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.
The White Grouper program
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.
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.