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    • Harvesting the Sea

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Thilina Jayawardena + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Harvesting the Sea: Unveiling Marine Bioresources for Functional Foods and Human Health Enhancement explores the remarkable potential hidden within the depths of our oceans. Encompassing over two-thirds of the Earth's surface, the marine ecosystem possesses an astonishing array of biodiversity and contains a trove of bioactive compounds that can revolutionize human health and wellbeing. In a world where functional foods are gaining prominence for their ability to provide targeted health benefits, this book delves into the untapped potential of marine bioresources and reveals the captivating journey of their discovery, sustainable utilization, and prospects. Written by a global team of experts, this book underscores the pressing need for innovative solutions in nutrition and healthcare. Modern lifestyles, stress, and the rise of chronic diseases demand a shift toward functional foods that promote well-being and disease prevention. Organized by marine bioresources, nutritional and bioactive compounds, functional food types, and therapeutic properties, chapters highlight the potential of marine-derived bioactive compounds and offer insights into their integration into functional foods. Through a meticulously researched exploration, readers are invited to understand how these compounds can contribute to a more vibrant and fulfilling life. With its interdisciplinary approach, Harvesting the Sea: Unveiling Marine Bioresources for Functional Foods and Human Health Enhancement is a valuable resource for nutritionists, food scientists, biotechnologists, researchers, and anyone intrigued by the profound relationship between our oceans and human health. As a bridge between conventional foods and dietary supplements, this book illuminates the path toward a healthier, more functional future through the wonders of marine bioresources.

    • Innovations in the Blue Economy

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • José Carlos Magalhães Pires
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Innovations in the Blue Economy: Sustainable Practices in Marine Macro- and Microalgae Cultivation explores the available technologies, latest advancements, and ongoing research promoting sustainable cultivation of microalgae and seaweed. Cultivation strategies, challenges, applications, products, and regulatory considerations are covered through an interdisciplinary lens to provide readers with a holistic understanding of this rapidly growing industry. Written by a globally diverse network of experts, this book is systematically structured to be accessible to readers across multiple sectors. Introductory chapters describe the biology, diversity, and vital ecological roles of various microalgal and seaweed species. Central chapters explore differing cultivation systems, emphasizing the critical aspects of site selection and ecosystem compatibility. Cultivation strategies are described and illustrated through applied case studies showcasing successful largescale cultivation initiatives. Final chapters consider the regulatory landscape and multifaceted hurdles to sustainable industry scale-up, provide innovative solutions, and highlight research gaps for industry consideration. Innovations in the Blue Economy addresses the environmental applications and economic viability of sustainable microalgal and seaweed cultivation, making it an essential read for algal aquaculturists, bioengineers, and students of marine biology and biotechnology.

    • Microalgae and One Health

      • 1st Edition
      • July 2, 2025
      • Antonio Pérez-Gálvez + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Microalgae and One Health: Fundamentals, Biocompounds, and Health and Environmental Applications provides a novel compendium of the interdisciplinary applications of microalgae. Adverse global changes, including climate change, environmental pollution, urbanization, globalization, industrialization, and food insecurity are imminent threats to global health as they accelerate damage to humanity, wildlife, and the biosphere. The One Health concept asserts that these contemporary challenges are entwined in the interdependence of humans, animals, and our shared environment. This book examines the use of microalgae in human and animal nutrition, healthcare, and novel technologies applied to sustainable environmental processes.Written by a globally diverse network of experts, this book is systematically structured to illustrate the applications of microalgae. The first section of the book covers the fundamentals of microalgae, from chemistry to industry applications. The next section further examines microalgae chemistry and identifies bioactive compounds. Subsequent sections examine the utility of microalgae in One Health, from human therapeutic potential to animal health and sustainability. The book concludes with a comprehensive market analysis, regulatory discussion, and safety considerations associated with microalgae products.

    • Seafood 4.0

      • 1st Edition
      • September 15, 2025
      • Abdo Hassoun + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Seafood 4.0: Digital, Physical, and Biological Realms from Sea to Table serves as a comprehensive source of information about the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), innovations, and relevant technologies used in fisheries, aquaculture, and the seafood industry. Divided in five parts, the book covers how recent, groundbreaking innovations and technological advances can improve seafood quality, safety, and traceability monitoring while reducing waste and production costs and enhancing marine sustainability. Chapters explore current challenges and future research directions to accelerate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in the seafood sector.The book also paves the way for the future revolution (i.e., Seafood 5.0). Expected to promote multidisciplinary collaboration and increase the rate of adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in various food-related sectors, particularly in the seafood area, this book is aimed at a wide audience, covering all actors involved in the seafood production and consumption supply chain.

    • Fish Protein Hydrolysates

      • 1st Edition
      • October 4, 2024
      • Nilesh Nirmal + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fish Protein Hydrolysates: From Production to Food and Nutraceutical Industry Applications provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on fish protein hydrolysate production using a variety of innovative processing techniques and technologies. This book highlights various biological activities and health benefits of fish protein hydrolysates, their food and nutraceutical industry applications, and associated safety concerns.Written by international experts in the field of fisheries and seafood processing, this book provides its readership with a wealth of recent developments and guidance on each production method, including current and emerging technologies. This book discusses the defatting and debittering aspects of fish protein hydrolysates, purification methods, trends in food product development, food and feed applications, and more. Most importantly, this book provides real-time industrial scale-up process, commercialization, safety, and regulatory issue of fish protein hydrolysate as a food ingredient.Fish Protein Hydrolysates: From Production to Food and Nutraceutical Industry Applications is a valuable resource for fish processing industries, researchers, or scientists to update their knowledge on production techniques, bittering issues of fish protein hydrolysates, and scale-up processes. In addition, this is a valuable source for academic scholars and students to keep up to date with the current changes and improvements in fish protein hydrolysate production and applications in the food industry.

    • Abalone

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 42
      • July 13, 2023
      • Peter A. Cook + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Abalone: Biology, Ecology, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Volume 42 in the Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science series, describes the taxonomy of more than 50 abalone species worldwide. The content contains information on the biology, physiology and ecology of each species as well as reproduction, genetics, diseases and parasites. It includes abalone fisheries in different parts of the world, detailing abalone aquaculture in China, Japan, Korea, Australia, Europe and Western North America. This reference takes a comprehensive approach to understanding overall shellfish management, making it valuable to fisheries, marine biologists and researchers studying shellfish, aquaculture and the ocean environment.This will also be a great resource for government and academia professionals interested in aquaculture and fisheries and their sustainable futures.

    • Revolution in the Seas

      • 1st Edition
      • October 26, 2023
      • Didier Gascuel
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Revolution in the Seas: Ending Overfishing and Building Pesco-ecology, Sustainable Agro-Ecology of Fishing provides an in-depth analysis of the dynamics between humans and disrupting marine ecosystems by extracting its wild animals. It highlights practical changes that can be implemented to prevent overfishing and create a new way of fishing, the pescoecology that benefits marine life, coastal communities, and human consumers alike.Written by a leader in fisheries science and conservation, this book begins by diagnosing the issue of overexploitation, showing the dynamics and consequences on living marine resources and ecosystems. It then goes on to demonstrate how recent scientific discoveries, including tropic network functionality, are changing humans’ approach to fishing sustainably. The final sections are devoted to ecological, economic, and social solutions.Revolution in the Seas is a vital resource for fisheries scientists, managers, academics and students in marine biology or fisheries studies. All stakeholders and citizens involved in building a sustainable relationship between humans and the sea will also benefit from this book’s revolutionary content.

    • Marine Antioxidants

      • 1st Edition
      • December 4, 2022
      • Se-Kwon Kim + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Marine Antioxidants: Preparations, Syntheses, and Applications provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on utilizing marine-derived substances for cosmeceutical, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical developments. The book delivers the isolation procedures and biological activity of marine-derived antioxidant substances as discussed by international experts on antioxidant material from actinobacteria, crustaceans, diatoms, fish, microalgae, microbes, and mangrove-associated marine organisms and seagrasses. In addition, the book details marine-derived bioactive antioxidants substances in the form of proteins, peptides, polysaccharides and lipids. Finally, the book provides the latest information on the mechanistic pathways of antioxidant substances with various diseases and nutritional perspectives. This is an essential resource for marine biotechnologists and marine biologists who want to better understand isolation procedures and antioxidant applications. Researchers interested in pharmaceutical nutrients, polymer science, and cosmeceuticals industries scientists, as well as students and academics, will also benefit from this book.

    • Frontiers in Aquaculture Biotechnology

      • 1st Edition
      • November 26, 2022
      • W.S. Lakra + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Frontiers in Aquaculture Biotechnology presents a broad-spectrum of topics, covering different key aspects of aquaculture. With the rising importance of aquaculture research, evidence-based information is integral in advancing this field. This book provides a solid resource of information on DNA barcoding for fish species authentication and seafood labelling and cell culture, including stem cell culture, in vitro research using fish cell lines such as in vitro fish meat, reproductive biotechnology, including surrogate technology, gene editing and genetically modified aquaculture species, biofloc technology, and omic technologies such as proteomics, artificial intelligence and biobanking. This book will be a valuable resource to students, researchers a nd entrepreneurs interested in a better understanding of this emerging field of aquaculture.

    • Bacterial Fish Diseases

      • 1st Edition
      • March 24, 2022
      • Gowhar Hamid Dar + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Bacterial Fish Diseases: Environmental and Economic Constraints will be useful for researchers and academics who need to understand the nature and consequences of bacteria-related disease in fishes. It has in-depth information on the complete genome of various bacterial species and identifies an essential number of virulence genes that affect the pathogenic potential of the bacteria in fish. Users will find the most relevant information derived from the available bacterial genomes concerning virulence and the diverse virulence factors that actively participate in host adherence, colonization and infection, including structural components, extracellular factors, secretion systems, iron acquisition and quorum sensing mechanisms. This reference is beneficial for understanding economic losses due to bacterial pathogens in fish fauna and its impact on the economy. It addition, it provides information on good aquaculture practices and how to scientifically manage aquaculture and fishery sectors.