The Role of Probiotics in the Development of Sustainable Aquaculture
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2022) | Viewed by 7387
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Interests: aquaculture; ecology
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Dear Colleagues,
Aquaculture, which represents one of the largest food production sectors in the world, is practiced with a wide variety of extensive to superintensive technologies for culturing a large number of vertebrate and invertebrate species in sea and freshwater. Ensuring good health and well-being of animals is a cornerstone in all these systems, in which probiotics offer a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to replacing antibiotics and synthetic chemicals.
Beneficial microbes play a pivotal role in regulating health conditions directly and by helping the immune system, growth performance, and feed utilization of animals. Their use in aquafeeds was the first area of intense development, which remains ongoing. However, the application of probiotics offers effective new and sustainable ways of maintaining good water quality and even increasing the biomass of natural food organisms in different pond cultures.
Developments in microbiome science are opening new frontiers of research for probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics not only in human healthcare but also in aquaculture. Novel products and applications may significantly change the profile of good practice in many fields and even portend a new era in sustainable development.
This Special Issue will examine the following:
- Use of probiotics in larviculture of fish;
- Application of probiotics in different fish and shellfish production systems;
- Probiotics in bioflock systems and pond sediment control;
- Testing of commercially available multistrain probiotics;
- Evaluation techniques of probiotics;
- Molecular-based methods in the research of bacterial communities.
Prof. Dr. Csaba Hancz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- probiotics
- aquaculture
- microbiome
- fish
- shellfish
- mollusks
- evaluation techniques
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