Fishery Discards, Processing Waste and Marine By-Products Valorization in the Era of Zero Waste: From Discovery to Profit
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 67493
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fish quality; aquaculture; aquatic ecotoxicology; fish diets; marine lipids; polyunsaturated fatty acids; marine bioactive compounds; marine biotechnology; zero waste; circular economy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: fish quality; aquaculture; aquatic ecotoxicology; fish diets; marine lipids; polyunsaturated fatty acids; marine bioactive compounds; marine biotechnology; zero waste; circular economy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global demand for fish for food and marine ingredients is growing rapidly, as are consumers’ concerns for the environmental sustainability of marine food production. The need to combine the sustainable management of marine resources with incisive action to recover the intrinsic value of discards, processing waste, and marine by-products appears increasingly pressing. The application of the circular economy principle “waste to profit” is a commitment for fishery, aquaculture, and fish processing value chains to develop high-value bio-based marine products with reduced environmental footprint.
This Special Issue aims to collect results and procedures with a high value of technological readiness that will help to pursue zero-waste procedures for the production of bio-based marine products. The Issue will accept papers related to the characterization of fishery discards, aquaculture and fish processing waste and marine bio-products, in terms of quantitative and qualitative biochemical composition in nutrients, antioxidants, and bioactive molecules, for their industrial utilization. Furthermore, the Issue welcomes papers addressed to the development of protocols, processes, and/or solutions aiming to optimize the yield and quality of bioactive compounds from marine by-products and to their valorization in different industrial sectors by the realization of bio-based products (functional foods, drug ingredients, feeds, and cosmetics).
Dr. Concetta Messina
Dr Andrea Santulli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- by-products
- bioactive compounds
- marine oils
- marine antioxidants
- protein hydrolysates
- circular economy
- waste to profits
- zero waste
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