Advances and Innovations in Sturgeon Aquaculture

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Fishes is pleased to announce an upcoming Special Issue entitled ‘Advances and Innovations in Sturgeon Aquaculture’.

Most of the 27 living species of sturgeons and paddlefish, which are distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, are endangered because of overfishing, poaching, pollution and destruction of spawning beds.

Despite the worldwide legal conservation and protection plans by CITES and other organizations, the trends of wild stocks continue to reduce. In this context, aquaculture programs may be the most effective strategy to fill the gap of the meat and caviar markets and protect the wild population.

Recently, the aquaculture production of sturgeon has grown fast to directly address the needs of markets and indirectly address the protection and recovery of sturgeons and their environment, but there is still a long way to go to be successful in both areas.

‘Advances and Innovations in Sturgeon Aquaculture’, this Special Issue of Fishes, is an interesting opportunity to present case studies, research findings, reviews, technical notes and synthesis papers about any of the following topics: i) nutrition and feeding requirements; ii) identification of diseases, vaccination and treatments; iii) environmental requirements in culture systems; iv) controlled reproduction and induction; v) incubation and larval rearing; vi) genetics and biotechnology topics relevant for aquaculture program; vii) effects of biotic and abiotic features on quality of meat and caviar; viii) advances in genomic techniques for sturgeon aquaculture; and ix) innovation in compartments and rearing systems; and x) improving welfare and physiological performance in sturgeon farms.

We especially welcome contributions from research groups working all over the world in the field of sturgeon aquaculture. Discussions/perspectives or reviews that present relevant issues supporting sturgeon conservation and management as well as aquaculture promotion are welcome. Thus, we are pleased to invite you to be a part of ‘Advances and Innovations in Sturgeon Aquaculture’ with submitting your valuable works to Fishes.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Bahram Falahatkar
Guest Editor

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• aquaculture
• reproduction
• innovation
• nutrition
• culture system
• diseases
• genetics
• physiology
• conservation
• acipenseriformes