Novel Feeds Affect Fish Growth Performance and Immunity
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1025
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Interests: feed additives; fish health; animal immunity; feeding; neuroscience; obesity; gut–brain axis
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Dear Colleagues,
The aquaculture industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the food production sector worldwide. This has led to a constant challenge to seek the best fish farming conditions while preserving the environment and creating sustainable aquaculture. To date, numerous multi-stressor conditions have been found to impact fish health and well-being, such as nutrition, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases, and water quality. Approved antibiotics and chemotherapeutics are used to address some of these problems, but these negatively affect the immune system of aquatic animals and are also harmful to global health and the environment. In this context, researchers and aquaculture industries are making numerous efforts to find other prevention approaches such as the use of bioactive compounds from plants as immunostimulants and dietary supplements, new functional diets containing feed additives capable of preserving fish health, or insects as alternative protein sources.
Taking into account that in the era of the circular economy, it is important to select new economically advantageous ingredients by maximizing resource efficiency and reducing waste in the agri-food supply chain, this SI aims to understand the real effects of these new feed formulations on growth performance, nutritional status, immunity, microbiota, and oxidative status. Different approaches and techniques can be used to test the use of unconventional feed ingredients, such as plant-based products, micro- and macro-algae, bacteria and yeast as single-cell protein, and insect meal, in the aquaculture sector to improve fish health, prevent diseases, and preserve the environment, promoting a more sustainable aquaculture
Dr. Roberta Imperatore
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- feed additives
- insect meal
- nutraceuticals
- functional ingredients
- pre- and pro-biotics
- peripheral and central inflammation
- immunity
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