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Sustainable Development and Resource Management of Marine Aquaculture
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Sustainable Development and Resource Management of Marine Aquaculture

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Aquaculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 3831

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Carlos Andrade

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MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET—Aquatic Research Network, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação (ARDITI), Caminho da Penteada Edif Madeira Tecnopolo, 9020-105 Funchal, Portugal
Interests: marine aquaculture; production systems; invertebrates and fish biology
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Dr. Florbela Soares

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IPMA—Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere/S2AQUAColab—Association for a Sustainable and Smart Aquaculture, Av. Parque Natural da Ria Formosa s/n, 8700-194 Olhão, Portugal
Interests: marine aquaculture; pathology; welfare
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Prof. Dr. Ricardo Haroun

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Instituto Universitario en Acuicultura Sostenible y Ecosistemas Marinos (IU-ECOAQUA), Marine Scientific and Technological Park, Universidadde Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Crta, Taliarte s/n, 35214 Telde, Spain
Interests: marine biodiversity; conservation; ecology; interactions
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Dr. Rui J. M. Rocha

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1. CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
2. Riasearch, Lda., 3870-168 Murtosa, Portugal
Interests: aquaculture; community-based aquaculture; food security; food safety; RAS
Prof. Dr. Aires Oliva-Teles

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Faculty of Sciences and CIIMAR, Porto University, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: fish nutrition and feeding
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Marine aquaculture plays a pivotal role in satisfying the global demand for seafood and influencing various social and economic sectors, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, biotechnology, education, conservation, recreational fishing and ornamental fish industries. Despite its significance, it confronts substantial challenges due to climate change and the increasing need to encourage its sustainability. Tackling these evolving issues necessitates research and innovative interventions in resource management, spanning crucial domains such as land and water utilization, aquaculture systems and technologies, water quality management, sustainable feeds and feed management, biodiversity and genetic management, disease and health management, energy efficiency, waste management, regulatory compliance and certification programs.

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, case studies and reviews addressing these key domains, preferably focusing on a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, crucial for effective resource management in aquaculture. It aims to foster sustainable marine aquaculture practices while minimizing its pressures at environmental, social and economic levels.

Dr. Carlos Andrade
Dr. Florbela Soares
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Haroun
Dr. Rui J. M. Rocha
Prof. Dr. Aires Oliva-Teles
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Keywords

  • marine aquaculture
  • water quality management
  • sustainable feeds and feed management
  • fish health and nutrition
  • fish disease and physiology
  • energy efficiency
  • biodiversity and genetic management
  • resource management

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Effects of Different Protein and Lipid Levels in Practical Diets for Yellowtail Snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch, 1971)
by Stephanie F. Velasquez, Leonardo Ibarra-Castro, Alexis Weldon and Donald Allen Davis
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12(11), 2009; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12112009 - 7 Nov 2024
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Yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus has great potential as a production fish in aquaculture, yet there is very limited information on its nutritional requirements. To establish baseline data, two trials were conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary protein and lipid levels in practical [...] Read more.
Yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus has great potential as a production fish in aquaculture, yet there is very limited information on its nutritional requirements. To establish baseline data, two trials were conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary protein and lipid levels in practical diets on growth and protein retention. The first trial, conducted over 14 weeks, used a series of diets with varying levels of protein (36%, 40%, and 44%) and lipids (6%, 10%, and 14%). The second trial, conducted for 10 weeks, used a series of diets with 36% protein and scaled lipid levels (7%, 10%, 13%, and 16%). Additionally, a commercial reference diet with 44% protein and 12% lipids was included. Growth performance and feed utilization parameters for Trial 1 indicated that the yellowtail snapper were able to effectively utilize practical diets containing 36% protein and 10% lipids, which produced the highest apparent net protein retention (ANPR; %) and survival. No significant differences were found in growth performance metrics, though there were numerical differences in final weight, weight gain, and survival. Similarly, in Trial 2, most growth metrics did not show significant differences. There were variations in weight gain, feed offered, and ANPR, with the highest performance observed in the fish given feed with 13% lipids. Based on the growth performance and ANPR values across these trials, we recommend 36% protein and dietary lipid levels of 7–13%, which are lower than the currently used commercial diets for marine finfish. The data gathered from the current study may be helpful for nutritionists in formulating feed to include more sustainable and cheaper feedstuffs and promote sustainable yellowtail snapper aquaculture production. Full article
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Intelligent Detection of Marine Offshore Aquaculture with High-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images
by Di Dong, Qingxiang Shi, Pengcheng Hao, Huamei Huang, Jia Yang, Bingxin Guo and Qing Gao
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12(6), 1012; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12061012 - 18 Jun 2024
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The rapid and disordered expansion of artificial marine aquaculture areas has caused severe ecological and environmental problems. Accurate monitoring of offshore aquaculture areas is urgent and significant in order to support the scientific and sustainable management and protection of coastal marine resources. Artificial [...] Read more.
The rapid and disordered expansion of artificial marine aquaculture areas has caused severe ecological and environmental problems. Accurate monitoring of offshore aquaculture areas is urgent and significant in order to support the scientific and sustainable management and protection of coastal marine resources. Artificial intelligence provides a valuable tool to improve marine resource monitoring. Deep learning methods have been widely used for marine object detection, but You Only Look Once (YOLO) models have not been employed for offshore aquaculture area monitoring. This study therefore evaluated the capacity of two well-known YOLO models, YOLOv5 and YOLOv7, to detect offshore aquaculture areas based on different high-resolution optical remote sensing imagery. Compared with YOLOv7 based on a satellite dataset, YOLOv5 increased the Precision value by approximately 3.29% (to 95.33%), Recall value by 3.02% (to 93.02%), mAP_0.5 by 2.03% (to 96.22%), and F1 score by 2.65% (to 94.16%). Based on the Google Earth dataset, YOLOv5 and YOLOv7 showed similar results. We found that the spatial resolution could affect the deep learning models’ performances. We used the Real-ESRGAN method to enhance the spatial resolution of satellite dataset and investigated whether super-resolution (SR) methods improved the detection accuracy of the YOLO models. The results indicated that despite improving the image clarity and resolution, the SR methods negatively affected the performance of the YOLO models for offshore aquaculture object detection. This suggests that attention should be paid to the use of SR methods before the application of deep learning models for object detection using remote sensing imagery. Full article
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