The European project AQUA-FAANG aims to improve understanding of the genome function and usage of genotype-to-phenotype prediction in the six most important European farmed fish species. This study is part of the FAANG project, promoting rapid prepublication of data to support the research community. These data are released under Fort Lauderdale principles, as confirmed in the Toronto Statement (Toronto International Data Release Workshop. Birney et al. 2009. Pre-publication data sharing. Nature 461:168-170). Any use of this dataset must abide by the FAANG data sharing principles. Data producers reserve the right to make the first publication of a global analysis of this data. If you are unsure if you are allowed to publish on this dataset, please contact the FAANG Data Coordination Centre and FAANG consortium (email faang-dcc@ebi.ac.uk and cc faang@iastate.edu) to enquire. The full guidelines can be found at http://www.faang.org/data-share-principle