Sustainable Transformation of Aquaculture in Marine Environments
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 1105
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Mediterranean aquaculture; risk management; low trophic species; IMTA; bivalve conservation; biofouling; environmental interactions; mass mortalities
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Dear Colleagues,
The global trends towards adapting to increasing food demand by producing and using less resources under climate pressures, such as long-term marine heat waves, requires a total “re-engineering” of the marine aquaculture sector. Sustainable blue growth constitutes an emergency.
Blue growth incorporates aquaculture as the major source for food production. Marine aquaculture has to grow in the forthcoming decades to cover the emerging demand for healthy and nutritious protein resources as a potential response to the global population’s explotion. However, this effort has to be adapted to the new pressures generated from climate change and resource limitations. Aquaculture has to be aligned with the “Green Deal”, especially in the EU, by “re-engineering” the whole industry processes in marine environents. “Tranformation” of marine aquaculture practices is the objective of the present Special Issue, focusing on achievements that minimize the environmental foot print based on the the circular economy principles along the marine farming value chain.
Transformation Strategies includes the following:
- Re-cycling: nutrients recycling, IMTA, low-trophic marine species aquaculture, marine aquaponics, environenmental interactions;
- Re-manufacturing: new feed ingredients, alternative bioresources, packaging material cations, alternative energy supply;
- Re-using: re-use materials in the value chain, LCA, carbon footprint mitigation;
- Re-placing: feeding substitutes, IT tools, artificial intelligence for marine farm management transformation;
- Ecosystem services: provided though marine farming transformation, include aquaculture-based conservation strategies for marine biodiversity restoration;
- Risk mitigation: management measures to support the success of this transition under pressures (mass mortalities and diseases outbreaks) such as marine heat waves.
Dr. John A. Theodorou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- LCA
- marine aquaculture
- low trophic
- IMTA
- fish
- invertabrates
- ecosystem services
- carbon footprint
- risk management
- blue transformation
- green deal
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