Moving toward a Sustainable Use of Marine Resources by Improving Seafood Quality and Security
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 November 2023) | Viewed by 2881
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fishery sampling and data collections; seafood quality and traceability; novel seafood packaging techniques; microplastics in fisheries products
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Interests: food quality management; sustainable global food systems; food processing and emerging technologies; qualitative and quantitative research methods; socio-associated aspects of food technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Moving toward a sustainable and efficient use of fishery resources implies reestablishing a compromise between the two most important idiosyncratic systems that interact in this scenario: (1) fish stock depletion and (2) the fishermen’s livelihoods.
Thousands of scientific articles and books have been written on the first point and all have a common theme: reducing fishing activities. By contrast, scarce is the attention paid to the impact that these measures have on fishermen’s’ financial gains and their economic sustainability.
Our pathway:
Maximizing the value of fisheries’ products represents a way (though hopefully not the only one) to compensate for the above stringent management measures and avoid an irreversible fishing crisis.
Based on this, the present Special Issue seeks to bring together innovative research results, advancements, and novel seafood packaging–labelling techniques directed towards improvement in the quality, shelf-life, certification, traceability, and security of fishery products.
It is believed that investing in the development of new seafood products that can satisfy a new generation of consumers who require ready-to-cook and/or time-saving products can contribute to opening new markets, to building more trust among fishery stakeholders, and (last but not least) achieving a sustainable use of marine resources.
Dr. Gioacchino Bono
Dr. Charles Odilichukwu R. Okpala
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seafood quality
- shelf-life and security
- packaging techniques
- mislabeling
- ecolabelling
- fishermen’s economic sustainability
- new packaging materials
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