Rachel Lane | Contributor

Rachel grew up on a farm in Ohio before becoming a journalist. She specialises in agriculture, government policy and international trade in the United States.

Hope for improving salmon egg survival

Atlantic Salmon Salmonids Breeding & genetics

7 November 2017

Over the last 25 years, the hatch rate of salmon eggs stripped from captive broodstock has decreased from about 80 percent to about 50 percent, but two hormones have been identified as potentially vital for governing this process, writes Rachel Lane.