Phytobiotics for Sustainable Aquaculture: Innovations, Benefits, and Future Perspectives is a comprehensive reference on plant-derived compounds, including herbs, spices, and micro- and macroalgae, as tools for disease management, nutrition, welfare, and sustainability in farmed fish and shrimp. The book covers molecular mechanisms and bioactive properties; demonstrates applications against bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases; and evaluates roles in immune modulation, stress mitigation, growth, and reproduction. It also explores advanced delivery systems—nano- and microencapsulation for controlled and targeted release—and situates phytobiotics within regulatory and environmental frameworks, precision aquaculture, and future therapeutics. Applications include their use as natural anesthetics, functional feed additives, reproductive modulators, and, where appropriate, piscicides.

Key Features:

This book is useful for researchers, professionals, veterinarians, nutritionists, hatchery managers, policymakers, and advanced students in aquaculture and nutraceutical sciences.

Phytobiotics for Sustainable Aquaculture: Innovations, Benefits, and Future Perspectives is a comprehensive reference on plant-derived compounds, including herbs, spices, and micro- and macroalgae, as tools for disease management, nutrition, welfare, and sustainability in farmed fish and shrimp. The book covers molecular mechanisms and bioactive properties; demonstrates applications against bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases; and evaluates roles in immune modulation, stress mitigation, growth, and reproduction. It also explores advanced delivery systems—nano- and microencapsulation for controlled and targeted release—and situates phytobiotics within regulatory and environmental frameworks, precision aquaculture, and future therapeutics. Applications include their use as natural anesthetics, functional feed additives, reproductive modulators, and, where appropriate, piscicides.

Key Features:

This book is useful for researchers, professionals, veterinarians, nutritionists, hatchery managers, policymakers, and advanced students in aquaculture and nutraceutical sciences.

This book describes sustainable aquaculture ingredients and additives uncovered in Africa and Asia. It also discusses current aquaculture research practices on alternative protein, carbohydrate, lipid, mineral, vitamin, and feed additives. It further demonstrates how aquaculture practices could be a feasible and cost-effective venture, capable of producing products in an environmentally sustainable manner. The aquaculture industry is suffering from scarcity of sustainable feedstuffs, particularly protein and oil components, which play an important role in the nutritional requirements of many aquaculture species. The availability of components such as fish meal, fish oil, and other synthetic feed additives has rendered aquaculture operations unsustainable, particularly in terms of cost. Therefore, the quest to replace such unsustainable components is developing in Africa and Asia.

This book helps aquaculture farmers, researchers, the aquafeed industry, investors, students, lawmakers, and other stakeholders in the aquaculture field to comprehend scientific-based sustainable feed ingredients and additives in aquaculture from an African and Asian viewpoint.

Phytobiotics for Sustainable Aquaculture: Innovations, Benefits, and Future Perspectives is a comprehensive reference on plant-derived compounds, including herbs, spices, and micro- and macroalgae, as tools for disease management, nutrition, welfare, and sustainability in farmed fish and shrimp. The book covers molecular mechanisms and bioactive properties; demonstrates applications against bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases; and evaluates roles in immune modulation, stress mitigation, growth, and reproduction. It also explores advanced delivery systems—nano- and microencapsulation for controlled and targeted release—and situates phytobiotics within regulatory and environmental frameworks, precision aquaculture, and future therapeutics. Applications include their use as natural anesthetics, functional feed additives, reproductive modulators, and, where appropriate, piscicides.

Key Features:

This book is useful for researchers, professionals, veterinarians, nutritionists, hatchery managers, policymakers, and advanced students in aquaculture and nutraceutical sciences.

Phytobiotics for Sustainable Aquaculture: Innovations, Benefits, and Future Perspectives is a comprehensive reference on plant-derived compounds, including herbs, spices, and micro- and macroalgae, as tools for disease management, nutrition, welfare, and sustainability in farmed fish and shrimp. The book covers molecular mechanisms and bioactive properties; demonstrates applications against bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases; and evaluates roles in immune modulation, stress mitigation, growth, and reproduction. It also explores advanced delivery systems—nano- and microencapsulation for controlled and targeted release—and situates phytobiotics within regulatory and environmental frameworks, precision aquaculture, and future therapeutics. Applications include their use as natural anesthetics, functional feed additives, reproductive modulators, and, where appropriate, piscicides.

Key Features:

This book is useful for researchers, professionals, veterinarians, nutritionists, hatchery managers, policymakers, and advanced students in aquaculture and nutraceutical sciences.

This book describes sustainable aquaculture ingredients and additives uncovered in Africa and Asia. It also discusses current aquaculture research practices on alternative protein, carbohydrate, lipid, mineral, vitamin, and feed additives. It further demonstrates how aquaculture practices could be a feasible and cost-effective venture, capable of producing products in an environmentally sustainable manner. The aquaculture industry is suffering from scarcity of sustainable feedstuffs, particularly protein and oil components, which play an important role in the nutritional requirements of many aquaculture species. The availability of components such as fish meal, fish oil, and other synthetic feed additives has rendered aquaculture operations unsustainable, particularly in terms of cost. Therefore, the quest to replace such unsustainable components is developing in Africa and Asia.

This book helps aquaculture farmers, researchers, the aquafeed industry, investors, students, lawmakers, and other stakeholders in the aquaculture field to comprehend scientific-based sustainable feed ingredients and additives in aquaculture from an African and Asian viewpoint.