Advances in Aquaculture Nutrition for Sustainable Health Management

Dear Colleagues,

Aquaculture plays an important role in providing high-quality food protein to humans. With the intensive development of the industry, declining aquatic product quality, frequent diseases and deterioration of the breeding environment have become prominent challenges hindering the sustainable development of aquaculture. Hence, ensuring the sustainable health management of aquaculture animals has emerged as a crucial prerequisite for the sound growth of the present aquaculture sector. Nutrition and feed play a crucial role in maintaining animal health by influencing several factors such as growth promotion, immune enhancement, disease resistance, stress resistance, improved reproduction and enhanced product quality. These features are vital for the sustainable management of farmed animals. Advancements in interconnected disciplines have the potential to enhance our comprehension of the management of aquatic animal health and the development of quality, enabling us to identify more areas for sustainable health management in aquaculture.

Original manuscripts that address any aspects of nutrient and feeding effects on health, product quality, reproduction, anti-stress, disease resistance, etc., are invited for publication in this Special Issue.

The topics of special interest are the effects and mechanisms of functional additives, novel feed sources (insects, single-cell proteins, etc.) and biologically fermented feed on the health regulation of aquatic animals; nutritional strategies for improving flesh quality; the effects of feed types and feeding modes on the feeding behavior of aquatic animals, among others.

Dr. Cunxin Sun
Dr. Xiaochuan Zheng
Guest Editors

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• functional additives
• protein sources
• immunoregulation
• anti-stress
• flesh quality
• intestinal health