10th Anniversary of Fishes: Microbiome, Functional Feed, Precision Nutrition, and AI Approaches in Aquaculture
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Feeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal nutrition; feed manufacturing; animal product shelf-life; bioactive molecules; biopolymers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquaculture today represents a crucial activity for human nutrition. With an approx. 6% annual growth rate, it faces unprecedented challenges related to sustainability, fish health, environmental stress, and the growing demand for high-quality seafood. In this context, a thorough understanding of fish nutrition is crucial not only to improve growth performance and feed efficiency but also to enhance animal welfare, disease resistance, and resilience to climate change. At the same time, advances in microbiome research, omics technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and precision feeding systems are revolutionizing our understanding of the complex interactions between diet, metabolism, immunity, and environmental adaptation in aquatic organisms.
This Special Issue, titled "10th Anniversary of Fishes: Microbiome, Functional Feed, Precision Nutrition, and AI Approaches in Aquaculture", aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for the dissemination of innovative research in aquatic nutrition that links nutritional interventions with AI-based tools to improve fish health under intensive farming conditions and under environmental stresses associated with global climate change.
Original research articles, reviews, and short communications focusing on gut health, host-microbiota interactions, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, functional ingredients, alternative protein sources, sustainable feed formulations, AI-assisted feeding systems, predictive modeling, smart aquaculture technologies, and data-driven nutritional approaches are welcome. Contributions integrating physiology, immunology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, sustainability assessment, and digital technologies for aquaculture are particularly encouraged.
Bringing together scientists from diverse disciplines, this Special Issue aims to advance knowledge on precision nutrition and intelligent aquaculture approaches that can support a more sustainable, efficient, and resilient global aquaculture industry, prepared to meet the challenges posed by a growing human population.
Prof. Dr. Marina Paolucci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- precision aquaculture
- artificial intelligence
- functional feeds
- fish microbiome
- smart feeding systems
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