Novel Ways to Monitor Vital Signs and Stress Indicators in the Live Seafood Trade

Aquatic products are essential to the food industry, but they are vulnerable to various adversity stresses (such as temperature, humidity, gas concentration, salinity, etc.) that can affect their physiological state, quality, and safety. These stresses are particularly evident during live transportation, for example, fatigue and respiratory difficulties caused by increased energy and oxygen consumption can degrade the product's vital signs over time and space, ultimately leading to lower aquatic food quality and transport efficiency and increased transport costs, as well as raising consumer concerns about aquatic food quality and safety. Therefore, monitoring and managing aquatic food vital signs during transportation will help ensure the safety of seafood transportation, improve transportation efficiency, and increase economic benefits while minimizing stress to animals and disruptive risks to the live seafood trade.

Traditional methods of detecting the vital characteristics of aquatic products are mainly based on competent observation and chemical tests, which can introduce additional stress and trauma and lack intuitive detection results. Although there are already studies on the physiological stress response and physiological signal characterization markers in live aquatic products transportation and detection techniques for aquatic product vital signals, current technologies lack depth in the dynamic evolution of the aquatic product life process and comprehensive characterization of their decay at multiple scales. Moreover, the level of sustainability and traceability within the life cycle of aquatic products needs to be improved. Therefore, this Research Topic aims to explore the decay patterns of vital characteristics of aquatic products under adversity stress and the dynamic detection of the vital characteristic signals during the life cycle of aquatic products to improve the accuracy of health detection and quality control, minimize stress to animals, and extend the vitality and quality of aquatic products, and thus improve the quality and transportation efficiency and process control of aquatic products for higher economic benefits, and reduce the risk of live seafood transportation trade..

This Research Topic covers food science, life science, computer and information science, and other multidisciplinary knowledge, emphasizing the significance of research to the scientific community or aquatic industry. The scope of this Research Topic includes the following areas but is not limited to:
- Exploration of the parameters, patterns, and mechanism of life decay characterization of aquatic products under adversity stress during transportation, evaluate the quality under the survivability
- Advanced Sensing and Detection technology for aquatic product vital signals and quality safety, especially flexible and wearing sensing
- Advanced Kinetic modeling and dynamics of live aquatic life decay signal, especially big data, deep learning
- Advance control technology and system for live aquatic product transportation and quality
- New traceability system and implementation mechanism for live aquatic product transportation, especially blockchain technology, RFID, TTI, etc.
- Value-added dynamics, Sustainable development strategies, and evaluation in live aquatic product supply chain
- The adoption and perception of new sustainable and greener technology in live aquatic product supply chain
- Comprehensive and systematic reviews of the above topics

Keywords: Quality control, Health evaluation and diagnosis, Aquatic products, Live fish transportation, Sustainability, Survivability, Control strategy, Sensors and sensing

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