Special issue on friendly nutritional strategies for sustainable aquaculture

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production sectors around the globe. Alongside its goals of providing food and income to the world's ever-increasing population, the aquaculture sector must guarantee that development is based on sustainable methods, particularly aquafeed production. The interaction between nutrition and immune functions has been the subject of unprecedented research in recent years. Manipulating the functions of the immune system through nutritional strategies is one of the pillars of modern preventive health management in aquaculture.

This special issue will present current methods used to investigate the interplay between nutrition and immunity in aquatic animals. Specifically, we will focus on current feeding strategies that use environmentally friendly feed additives. The goal is to provide insights into current and future nutritional strategies for manipulating the immune system and attaining sustainable aquaculture.

Topics covered:

These will include, but not be limited to:

• The role of balanced aquafeed in improving aquatic animal immune response.
• Effects of functional additives on innate and adaptive immune defenses of aquatic animals.
• Use of immunostimulants and immune enhancers to improve disease resistance.
• New approaches for selecting and optimising functional feed additives with immunomodulatory effects.
• New advances in revealing the mechanisms of actions of immunostimulants in aquatic species.
• Novel mechanistic understanding of how dietary manipulations impact fish immunity.
• The future of immuno-nutrients and feed additives in aquafeeds.

Important deadlines:

• Submission deadline (for full papers): 31 January 2022
• Peer review: November 2021 to March 2022
• Author revisions due: January to May 2022
• Publication date: June 2022

Submission instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online; please select the special issue “Friendly nutritional strategies for sustainable aquaculture”.

Manuscripts will be reviewed and published on a first-come, first-served basis. Once all accepted manuscripts are published, they will be gathered together in this special issue.

Guest editors:

• Dr. Mahmoud A.O. Dawood, The Center for Applied Research on the Environment and Sustainability, The American University in Cairo, Egypt; Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. Email: mahmou.dawood@agr.kfs.edu.eg
• Dr. Zulhisyam Abdul Kari, Faculty of Agro-Based Industry, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia. Email: zulhisyam.a@umk.edu.my