Sustainable Aquaculture: Innovations and Future Perspectives
A Special Issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888) belonging to the section "Sustainable Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 May 2027 | Viewed by 1
Editors
Interests: aquaculture nutrition; functional ingredients; sustainable aquaculture; animal welfare; fish immunology; aquatic animal physiology and ecotoxicology
Interests: sustainable aquaculture; animal welfare; aquatic animal physiology and ecotoxicology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquaculture continues to play an increasingly important role in meeting the growing global demand for high-quality aquatic food while reducing pressure on wild fishery resources. Its sustainable development, however, requires production systems that are resource-efficient, environmentally responsible, climate-resilient, economically viable, and aligned with high standards of animal health and welfare. This Special Issue, “Sustainable Aquaculture: Innovations and Future Perspectives”, aims to bring together recent advances, innovative approaches, and emerging technologies that contribute to more sustainable, resilient, and efficient aquaculture systems across freshwater, brackish-water, and marine environments. We welcome original research articles and critical reviews covering a broad range of topics, including sustainable and functional feeds, alternative ingredients and circular economy approaches, nutrition and health, disease prevention, animal welfare, novel production technologies, biotechnology, genomics, and microbiome applications. Contributions addressing emerging and underutilized species, environmental monitoring, reduction in nutrient and organic emissions, resource recovery, water and energy efficiency, life-cycle assessment, environmental footprinting, and traceability are also encouraged. We invite research on digital aquaculture and Aquaculture 4.0 approaches, including precision farming, sensor-based monitoring, automation, artificial intelligence, and data-driven decision-support tools. Interdisciplinary studies bridging biological, technological, environmental, and socioeconomic perspectives are particularly welcome. This Special Issue seeks to showcase current scientific advances and practical innovations and identify future research directions for the transition towards sustainable aquaculture.
Dr. Vitória Pereira
Dr. Andreia Rodrigues
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable aquaculture
- digital aquaculture
- alternative ingredients
- functional nutrition
- aquafeed innovation
- animal health and welfare
- environmental footprint
- climate-resilient aquaculture
- circular economy
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