Toward Resilient Aquaculture in Africa: Innovative and Sustainable Aquafeeds Through Alternative Protein Sources

Reviews in Aquaculture, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(2)

Опубликована: Фев. 9, 2025

ABSTRACT The aquaculture industry is a significant source of food proteins and other essential nutrients, providing the much‐needed requirements for human nutrition. However, identifying sustainable affordable feed ingredients growing sector remains challenge industry. African sector, in particular, developing discernibly but faces distinct socioeconomic infrastructural challenges. Elevated usage fishmeal financially challenging associated with ecological risks. This review examines potential alternative protein sources growth while addressing challenges, including lack processing technology investments, availability, economic viability, policy regulations, social conflicts, anti‐nutritive substances. Alternative have considerable terms sustainability viability. By‐products from animals could be most promising near future, as they are cost‐effective, available, do not compete humans source. Insect alternatives utilization consumption. Shortfalls technology, infrastructure, targeted investments bottlenecks that must resolved to increase production.

Язык: Английский

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Advancing genetic improvement in the omics era: status and priorities for United States aquaculture

BMC Genomics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 26(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 17, 2025

The innovations of the "Omics Era" have ushered in significant advancements genetic improvement agriculturally important animal species through transforming genetics, genomics and breeding strategies. These were often coordinated, part, by support provided over 30 years 1993-2023 National Research Support Project 8 (NRSP8, Animal Genome Program, NAGRP) affiliate projects focused on enabling genomic discoveries livestock, poultry, aquaculture species. parallel advances demand strategic planning future research priorities. This paper, as an output from May 2023 Aquaculture Genomics, Genetics, Breeding Workshop, provides updated status resources for United States species, highlighting major achievements emerging Finfish shellfish genome omics enhance our understanding architecture heritability performance production traits. Workshop identified present aims genomics/omics to build this progress: (1) advancing reference assembly quality; (2) integrating multi-omics data analysis traits; (3) developing collection integration phenomics data; (4) creating pathways applying information across industries; (5) providing training, extension, outreach application phenome. focuses should emphasize collection, artificial intelligence, identifying causative relationships between genotypes phenotypes, establishing apply tools industries, expansion training programs next-generation workforce facilitate sciences into operations productivity, competitiveness, sustainability. collective vision with focus highlighted priorities is intended continued advancement genomics, genetics community industries. Critical challenges ahead include practical analytical frameworks beyond academic communities that require collaborative partnerships academia, government, industry. scope review encompasses use applications study aquatic animals cultivated human consumption settings throughout their life-cycle.

Язык: Английский

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Understanding the sources, fate and effects of microplastics in aquatic environments with a focus on risk profiling in aquaculture systems

Reviews in Aquaculture, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(4), С. 1947 - 1980

Опубликована: Июнь 19, 2024

Abstract The upsurge in the usage of plastics on a global scale has led to widespread occurrence microplastics (MPs) aquatic environments. This review starts by outlining current scenario plastic production. It then delves into various sources and their entry systems, including impact fisheries aquaculture sector. detailed analysis methods degradation small sized, MPs followed transport, uptake trophic transference have been reviewed systematically. Besides, summarizes knowledge impacts MPs, additives associated contaminants organisms living environment, particularly fish thriving cultured conditions. effects alone association with other like heavy metals, organic pollutants leachates reveal serious such as cytotoxicity, immune response, oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, barrier attributes genotoxicity among species particularly, fish. In addition, present discusses invasion explores risk assessment both terms exposure toxicological risks biochemical nature, size, shape concentration MPs. management strategies future prospective control hazards also highlighted. summary, outlines sources, fate, environment highlighting need recognize pollution threat formulate prevention, reduce, reuse safe disposal material.

Язык: Английский

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Experimental Study on Thermal Properties and Fire Risk According to Acid Value Change in Palm Oil

Fire, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 8(1), С. 25 - 25

Опубликована: Янв. 12, 2025

(1) Background: this study investigates the impact of acid value changes on thermal degradation and fire risks palm oil. It emphasizes need for systematic risk management in food manufacturing preparation processes to address safety challenges associated with high-temperature operations. (2) Methods: employed reproduction experiments, characterization tests, analyses, including differential scanning calorimetry thermogravimetric analysis. (3) Result: higher values oil significantly reduce smoke points, ignition stability, primarily due increased free fatty acids oxidative by-products. These effects are more pronounced environments, highlighting importance controlling mitigate risks. (4) Conclusions: concludes that reduces its stability elevates accelerated oxidation decomposition. monitoring implementing temperature control measures enhance cooking processes.

Язык: Английский

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AI-driven aquaculture: A review of technological innovations and their sustainable impacts

Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Application of artificial intelligence (AI) in aquaculture/fisheries: Microbial disease identification and diagnosis

Methods in microbiology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Machine Vision Applications for Welfare Monitoring in Aquaculture: Challenges and Opportunities

Aquaculture Fish and Fisheries, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 5(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 16, 2025

ABSTRACT Increasing consideration of welfare in aquaculture has prompted interest non‐invasive methods monitoring that avoid unnecessary stress and handling. Machine vision (MV) provides a potential solution to these needs, as it can be used for animal health real‐time. We examined the practical applications MV aquaculture, hardware algorithms automated data collection, main challenges solutions processing analysis. The most common application been estimation size‐related metrics (growth, biomass) fish, but key aspects welfare, such parasites disease or detection stress‐related behaviours, are lagging behind. Numerous camera setups have used, ranging from single stereoscopic cameras emersed submerged cameras, often under optimal conditions may not always reflect those prevalent industry (high densities, low visibility), likely overestimating performance. Object algorithms, YOLO, approach choice our review identified an increasing number alternatives help circumvent some posed by high densities poor lighting typical commercial farms. transform there still important need overcome before become mainstream, namely ability detect ectoparasites diseases, identify abnormal work across taxa, particularly crustaceans.

Язык: Английский

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Fields of the Future: Digital Transformation in Smart Agriculture with Large Language Models and Generative AI

Computer Standards & Interfaces, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 104005 - 104005

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Review of state-of-the-art improvements in recirculating aquaculture systems: Insights into design, operation, and statistical modeling approaches

Aquaculture, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 742545 - 742545

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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IMC-YOLO: a detection model for assisted razor clam fishing in the mudflat environment

PeerJ Computer Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 11, С. e2614 - e2614

Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2025

In intertidal mudflat culture (IMC), the fishing efficiency and degree of damage to nature have always been a pair irreconcilable contradictions. To improve razor clam at same time reduce natural environment, in this study, burrows dataset is established, an intelligent method proposed, which realizes accurate identification counting by introducing object detection technology into activity. A model called culture-You Only Look Once (IMC-YOLO) proposed study making improvements upon You version 8 (YOLOv8). firstly, end backbone network, Iterative Attention-based Intrascale Feature Interaction (IAIFI) module was designed adopted model's focus on advanced features. Subsequently, effectiveness detecting difficult targets such as with small sizes, head network refactored. Then, FasterNet Block used replace Bottleneck, achieves more effective feature extraction while balancing accuracy size. Finally, Three Branch Convolution Attention Mechanism (TBCAM) enables specific region interest accurately. After testing, IMC-YOLO achieved mAP50, mAP50:95, F1best 0.963, 0.636, 0.918, respectively, representing 2.2%, 3.5%, 2.4% over baseline model. Comparison other mainstream models confirmed that strikes good balance between numbers parameters.

Язык: Английский

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