Ecological Aquaculture and Disease Prevention and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Aquaculture is essential for global food security and marine resource sustainability, yet it faces the dual challenge of maintaining production while preserving ecological balance. Traditional practices, marked by self-pollution, disease outbreaks, and antibiotic overuse, increasingly hinder sustainable growth.  Consequently, understanding how aquatic animals adapt to environmental changes and assessing the environmental impact of aquaculture processes, particularly the relationship between disease and environment, have emerged as key research foci. Advancing ecological aquaculture requires integrated research into host–environment–pathogen interactions, functional antibiotic alternatives, and science-based disease management systems.

This Special Issue, titled "Ecological Aquaculture and Disease Prevention and Control", will facilitate in-depth discussion about the means to achieve a synergy between production output and ecological security using advanced strategies. These strategies may include optimizing aquaculture models, developing novel green feeds and probiotics, enhancing environmental management, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and modern molecular biology for the precise monitoring of environmental parameters, animal behavior, pathogen detection, and immunological prophylaxis.

Prof. Dr. Yichao Ren
Dr. Chunyan Zhao
Guest Editors

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