Marine Ecological Ranch, Fishery Remote Sensing, and Smart Fishery
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate changes; oyster reef; artificial reef; sea-weed bed; cephalopod; fish larvae and eggs; sea ranch
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Interests: fish
Interests: climate change; sea-weed and seagrass habitats; drifting seaweed; fisheries resource; fisheries oceanography; coastal habitat mapping; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
To acquire green, sustainable, and high-quality animal protein from marine ecological ranch areas, global governments including China have invested in many techniques for artificial underwater engineering, such as artificial reefs, to increase primary producers, and thus acquire more foods. On the other hand, climate change, fish habitat loss and overfishing pose a major threat to global fisheries, fisheries resources and seafood quality changes. The construction and continuous development of marine ecological ranches have produced many new seafood markets and economic development opportunities, and formed a new development direction of the fishery industry involved in the technologies of remote sensing and artificial intelligent. Therefore, in order to make full use of marine-derived products and provide consumers with richer, more nutritious and safer sea products and markets, as well as the rapid development of marine ranches, we call for papers on topics including, but not limited to, the comprehensive understanding of marine ecological ranches (including processing and utilization of marine-derived products and seafood in ranches and the ocean), fishery remote sensing, smart fisheries and the impacts of climate change, environmental variations and fishing pressure on marine living organism species (such as changes in habitat, resources and biodiversity) involving remote sensing technology. New opinions, insights and frameworks regarding marine sciences and engineering related to fisheries are also welcome. The topics of this Special Issue also welcome commentary on the current situation and future of global fisheries, as well as new perspectives and insights on ocean products.
Dr. Min Xu
Dr. Tingbing Zhu
Prof. Dr. Teruhisa Komatsu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial underwater engineering
- fisheries resources
- seafood
- marine ecological ranches
- climate change
- habitat
- over-fishing
- remote sensing
- artificial intelligent
- smart fisheries
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