Fisheries And Aquaculture

"Fish and fishery products represent a very valuable source of protein and essential micronutrients for balanced nutrition and good health. The global population is increasing and, in order to maintain at least the current level of per-capita consumption of aquatic foods, the world will require an additional 23 million tonnes there of by 2020... In aquaculture, in fact, fish are often exposed to stress conditions, due to farming practices such as manipulation, selection, high stocking density, transportation, the conditions of pre-slaughter and slaughter methods. During the last decades the aquaculture industry increased together with the scientific knowledge about new technologies on farming but also several discussions on the potential negative effects linked to the welfare of cultured fish. In my opinion research should be conducted to reduce the stress in aquaculture practices together with behavioral and physiological response of the fish, is in fact necessary to adopt the guidelines and protocols that can be used all over the aquaculture sector... Monique Mancuso, Fish Welfare in Aquaculture OMICS International is one of the few well-established Open Access publishers in the world. It has, to date, more than 700+ peer-reviewed journals. OMICS International covers various fields, including Fisheries and Aquaculture, Medicine, Engineering & technology and Life sciences, and has dedicated Editorial Board members who insure the quality and originality of OMICS scientific journals. Authors and researchers from different linguistic environments have now the opportunity to share their valuable scientific experiments in the field of Fisheries and Aquaculture from their native language to English or from English to other international languages including French, German and Spanish. We believe that the newly lanched OMICS Translation Services is a guarantee for a quicker and larger dissemination of scientific discoveries worldwide, and a key component for future research."