Short description:

This book explores the present and future evolution of aquaculture feeds, explaining the current challenges and considering how advances in technologies and ingredients can produce aquafoods for the increasing world population.

Long description:

Aquaculture, the youngest, fastest-growing, and most dynamic protein-producing industry, has the key advantage of efficient use of feed that allows farmed fish to be competitively priced compared with terrestrial proteins. Sustainable Aquafeeds: Technological Innovation and Novel Ingredients explores the present and future evolution of feeds, explains the current challenges for aquaculture, and considers how advances in technologies and ingredients can produce aquafoods for the increasing world population.

International contributors to this book provide state-of-the-art information on the profile of the aquafeed industry, including factors affecting supplies and prices of key ingredients for aquafeed production. An entire set of chapters covers the scientific advances and feed industry initiatives in accordance with modern consumer trends, updating readers on the most promising strategies. These include the use of novel ingredients for nutrient supplementation and the enhancement of their use by genetic selection.

The authors hope to inspire a collaboration of NGOs, researchers, and private partnerships to replace wild-caught ingredients by accelerating and supporting the scaling of innovative, alternative, aquaculture feed ingredients, including bacterial meals, plant-based proteins, algae, and yeast.

Table of Contents:

1. Antibiotics in aquaculture systems: effects on environment and human health. .2. Use of alternative ingredients and probiotics in aquafeeds formulation. 3. The potential of invasive alien fish species as novel aquafeed ingredients. 4. New trends in aquafeed formulation and future perspectives: inclusion of antioxidants from marine environment. 5. Plant and novel aquafeed ingredient impact on fish performance and waste excretion. 6. The real meaning of ornamental fish feeds in the modern society: the last frontier of pet nutrition? 7. Life Cycle Assessment for a sustainable improvement of the aquaculture systems. 8. Innovative protein sources in aquafeed. 9. Fish oil sparing and alternative lipid sources in aquafeeds. 10. Enhancing feed utilization in cultured fish: a multilevel task. 11. Feed industry initiatives: probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics.