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In selective breeding programs for Atlantic salmon, test fish are slaughtered at an average body weight where growth rate and carcass traits as filet fat ( F  F ), filet pigment ( F  P ) and visceral fat index ( F  F ) are recorded. The objective of this study was to obtain estimates of genetic correlations between growth rate (GR), and the three carcass quality traits when fish from the same 206 families (offspring of 120 sires and 206 dams from 2 year-classes) were recorded both at the same age ( SA ) and about the same body weight ( SW ). In the  SW  group, the largest fish were slaughtered at five different slaughter events and the remaining fish at the sixth slaughter event over 6 months. Estimates of genetic parameters for the traits were obtained from a Bayesian multivariate model for (potentially) truncated Gaussian traits through a Gibbs sampler procedure in which phantom  GR  values were obtained for the unslaughtered, and thus censored  SW  group fish at each slaughter event. The heritability estimates for the same trait in each group was similar; about 0.2 for  FF , 0.15 for  FP  and 0.35 for  VF  and  GR . The genetic correlation between the same traits in the two groups was high for growth rate (0.91 ± 0.05) visceral index (0.86 ± 0.05), medium for filet fat (0.45 ± 0.17) and low for filet pigment (0.13 ± 0.27). Within the two groups, the genetic correlation between growth rate and filet fat changed from positive (0.59 ± 0.14) for the  SA  group to negative (−0.45 ± 0.17) for the  SW  group, while the genetic correlation between growth rate and filet pigment changed from negative (−0.33 ± 0.22) for the  SA  group to positive (0.62 ± 0.16) for the  SW  group. The genetic correlation of growth rate with  FF  and  FP  is sensitive to whether the latter traits are measured at the same age or the same body weight. The results indicate that selection for increased growth rate is not expected to have a detrimental effect on the quality traits if increased growth potential is realized through a reduced production time.

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Quantitative Genetics of Growth Rate and Filet Quality Traits in Atlantic Salmon Inferred From a Longitudinal Bayesian Model for the Left-Censored Gaussian Trait Growth Rate