Novel Approaches Toward Sustainable Tilapia Aquaculture

The global human population will reach nine billion by 2050, and seafood is projected to be the primary food source to sustain such a large population. According to a recent World Bank report, aquaculture will be the prime source of seafood by 2030. Tilapia is one of the promising species for commercial aquaculture and one of the second most farmed fish worldwide. Given the issues raised by Antibiotic misuse in intensive aquaculture, such as the occurrence of resistant bacteria, it is necessary to develop environment-friendly strategies that could be used to improve production in a sustainable manner.  Also, there is a need to establish the best aquaculture practice (BAP) approaches to avoid significant disruption to the ecosystem, the loss of biodiversity, and substantial pollution impact on the environment.

The book covers the recent findings regarding sustainable tilapia farming through environment-friendly approaches. This book contains chapters that cover the current status of world tilapia farming and the concept of sustainability of tilapia culture (Chap. 1). Chap. 2 discusses the health management of tilapia with a particular focus on various diseases and treatments. Chap. 3 provides an updated view of the possible effects of feed additives on tilapia reproductive performance. Chap. 4, 5, and 6 cover the recent findings on the gut microbiota of tilapia with a particular focus on structure and modulation. Chap. 7 focuses on the use of medicinal plants for sustainable tilapia farming. Chap. 8 provides insights into the application of alternative protein sources to decrease fish meal consumption.  Chap. 9 highlights the importance of culture systems for the development of sustainable tilapia aquaculture.  We believe the current book will be very helpful to academics, researchers, and policy-makers in aquaculture.

Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Gorgān, Golstan, Iran as well as Adjunct Professor at Chiang Mai University (Thailand) since 2017. He was also working as an invited visiting professor at Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy). He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research interest is fish immuno-nutrition, with a special focus on feed additives, including various microbial dietary supplements, prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics effects on fish health. He has promoted to Associate Professor at age 32 (The youngest  Associate  Professor in Iran). He has been nominated as the Top researcher of Iran in 2022 and over 7 years (2016-2023) top researcher of the Province as well as GUASNR. Given his research records and citations, he has been listed among the 2% top researchers of the world by Scopus as well as ESI 1% researchers by WOS.

Hien Van Doan is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal and Aquatic Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research interest is fish nutritional immunology, with a special focus on functional feed additives, such as agricultural by-products, prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, and medicinal plants' effects on fish health and well-being.