Advances in Aquatic Environmental Microbiology for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

Dear Colleagues,

A recent estimate states that the global population will reach 9.7 billion in 2050 (an increase of two billion people worldwide in the next 30 years), according to the United Nations World Population Prospect 2019. To meet the world's growing demands for seafood, fisheries are expected to play a pivotal role in global food security. On the other hand, expanding anthropogenic activities had resulted in deteriorated aquatic ecosystems through various causes, posing threats for fisheries worldwide. It is urgent to propose effective and progressive responses as well as a sustainable way to mitigate and adapt to these changes. We gradually came to understand that microbes play key roles to recover anthropogenically imbalanced aquatic environments.

In this Special Issue of Applied Sciences entitled “Advances in Aquatic Environmental Microbiology for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture”, we welcome articles related to the ecology, interaction, and application of marine microbes, contributing to the development of future sustainable fisheries and aquaculture. For example, the relating fields would be microbes involved in the prediction and mitigation of harmful algal blooms, suitable microbial foods for juvenile of important species of aquaculture and fisheries, bioremediation, and microbial ecology in the sea, etc. 

Prof. Dr. Ichiro Imai
Dr. Nobuharu Inaba
Guest Editors

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