NCCCWA Partners
Partner	Goal
The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute	Improving the sustainability of land-based closed-containment systems for salmonid food fish production.
The University of Connecticut	Identifying biochemical pathways which affect disease resistance and flesh pigmentation.
West Virginia University	Identify and characterize genes which affect important aquaculture product quality traits.
University of Idaho	Performance evaluation of select rainbow trout lines.
Clear Spring Foods	Disease free rainbow trout aquaculture production.
Troutlodge	Optimize breeding strategies for rainbow trout.
University of California-Davis	Construct physical maps of trout chromosomes to facilitate genome mapping and sequencing.

 TIGR Rainbow Trout Gene Index (Link)