“…Meat quality traits include fat percentage and distribution (Derayat et al, 2007), flesh colour (Baranski et al, 2010;Ali et al, 2020), texture and dressing percentage (Gjedrem and Baranski, 2009). Salinity, temperature and other environmental stressors tolerance are usually measured by challenge tests to develop species that could reproduce and grow in areas of extreme salinity or temperature (Norman et al, 2011;Yan and Wang, 2010) such as in tilapia (Rengmark et al, 2007;Yan and Wang, 2010;Qin et al, 2020Qin et al, , 2021Powell et al, 2021), rainbow trout (Le Bras et al, 2011), Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus (Norman et al, 2011), Asian seabass (Bai et al, 2012), Pacific white shrimp (Huang et al, 2020;Zeng et al, 2020) and Pacific abalone . Precocious sexual maturation could lead to impaired growth, low FCR and decreased meat quality as this biological process is energetically expensive (Küttner et al, 2011;Moghadam et al, 2007).…”