New Nutritional Strategies to Control Disease of Aquaculture
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 6118
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aquaculture; fish health; fish hematology; fish pathology; fish parasitology; fish physiology; aquatic organisms health; probiotics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid growth of the world’s aquaculture has been stimulated by a wide variety of innovations, including the use of highly efficient feed formulations and the optimization of cultivation systems. Efforts to intensify aquaculture led to increased stress, high stocking densities, and poor fish health. Traditionally, the use of antibiotics in aquaculture has been an efficient strategy to mitigate stressful conditions and disease outbreaks or improve productivity. However, the prophylactic use of antibiotics has been widely criticized and banned in many countries. For this reason, aquaculture science is currently evaluating possible alternatives, with new feed and production strategies. One of the potential substitutes of antibiotics in aquaculture is the use of functional additives supplemented in aquaculture feeds. Additives are defined as non-nutritive ingredients which are supplemented in feeds to influence the physicochemical properties or to improve the overall performance of the cultured organisms and the quality of resulting products. These additives are medicinal plants, essential oils, probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics, organic acids, etc. These additives can act in the gastrointestinal mechanism of animals or even in the immune system, strengthening a better response to a pathogenic agent. Several studies have shown that the effort to improve the quality of life of animals has been compensated with a return of greater production and quality of food offered to the population.
Dr. Maria José Tavares Ranzani-Paiva
Dr. Leonardo Tachibana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aquaculture
- fish health
- growth promoters
- functional additives
- nutrition
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