About this Research Topic
It is an overall goal to increase sustainable food production from the oceans and to establish a roadmap describing a main strategy to reach that goal. Marine aquaculture is a relatively young industry, facing broad challenges of environmental, economic and social sustainability. There is a need to improve animal welfare and public perception. New feed resources are needed for most farmed marine species. Many countries share the challenge of establishing new feed resources. Non-fed aquaculture of for example seaweed, shellfish, crustaceans, sea cucumber and sea urchin, is the dominant method in many Asian countries while intensive fish farming of salmonids, seabass and sea bream are more dominant in Europe. A main challenge is to cooperate across regions and learn from each other.
The AQUANOR 2023 conferences will treat the mentioned scientific issues in the following sessions:
1. Feed resources for future expansion of aquaculture
2. Non-fed extractive aquaculture – species with aquaculture potential and their cultivation techniques
Sessions are interwoven, among others because non-fed aquaculture may support feed resource produced for carnivore fish. The sessions will cover aspect of management, societal, engineering, and scientific aspect. Both digital and physical lectures are accepted. for publication.
The Research Topic "Towards an expansion of sustainable global marine aquaculture" invites paper submission by authors registered for AQUANOR 2023 and by this the conference. (https://gyroconference.eventsair.com/aqua-nor-2023). The session chairs will select the papers for oral presentation, oral digital presentation, and papers of adequate quality not accepted for oral presentation because of space limitation. Digital video files will become displayed in the AQUANOR web pages. Examples of topics invited for are:
1. Feed resources of captured fish and other marine animals including their by-products and wastes cycles
2. Feed resources of farmed seaweed and marine low trophic animal species.
3. Single cell derived biomass and refined products from industrial biotechnology,
4. Human food derived from farmed non-fed low trophic level species, e.g., including shellfish, crustaceans, other invertebrates, omnivorous fishes, seaweed and more.
5. Low trophic aquaculture through seeding and harvesting the sea, ocean farming
6. Aspects of environmental, economic and societal sustainability of new feed resources and human food from farmed low trophic organisms
Keywords: New marine aquaculture feed resources; Bi-products and waste cycles; Biomass from industrial biotechnology; Species for non-fed low trophic aquaculture; Farmed seaweed; Sustainability of food and feed production in non-fed aquaculture
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