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<p>Aquatic food production system raises aquatic organisms including fish, shellfish and seaweeds for human consumption and associated value chains. Moreover, as the global human population continues to expand at a high rate and is expected to reach over 9 billion by 2030, developing a cost-efficient production method is a significant challenge in the future development of the aquatic food production industry to provide food and nutritional security with high-quality animal protein. Recent advancements in biotechnological tools and approaches provided a new toolset that can be used to design and optimize the existing processes such as food preservation, fermentation, packaging, quality control and setting proper guidelines to manufacture and process genetically modified fish. At the same time, with the refinement of technology, these are becoming easier applicable and transferable to several other aquatic species production systems. These trends have resulted in exploiting new and unconventional microbial systems with sophisticated properties, which render promising results in the production industry. Here, we highlight the recent advances in the newly emerging biotechnological technology in the production of fish and fish products and discuss the potential of these tools as a sustainable platform for centuries to come with a significant impact on the aquatic food production industry.</p>
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Aquatic food production system raises aquatic organisms including fish, shellfish and seaweeds for human consumption and associated value chains. Moreover, as the global human population continues to expand at a high rate and is expected to reach over 9 billion by 2030, developing a cost-efficient production method is a significant challenge in the future development of the aquatic food production industry to provide food and nutritional security with high-quality animal protein. Recent advancements in biotechnological tools and approaches provided a new toolset that can be used to design and optimize the existing processes such as food preservation, fermentation, packaging, quality control and setting proper guidelines to manufacture and process genetically modified fish. At the same time, with the refinement of technology, these are becoming easier applicable and transferable to several other aquatic species production systems. These trends have resulted in exploiting new and unconventional microbial systems with sophisticated properties, which render promising results in the production industry. Here, we highlight the recent advances in the newly emerging biotechnological technology in the production of fish and fish products and discuss the potential of these tools as a sustainable platform for centuries to come with a significant impact on the aquatic food production industry.

An Overview of Modern Biotechnological Tools in Aquatic Food Production – A Review

Annals of Animal Science

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Aquatic food production system raises aquatic organisms including fish, shellfish and seaweeds for human consumption and associated value chains. Moreover, as...

An Overview of Modern Biotechnological Tools in Aquatic Food Production – A Review

Published Online: Jan 23, 2024

Page range: 13 - 25

Received: Nov 23, 2022

Accepted: Apr 12, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aoas-2023-0034

Keywords
biotechnological tools, aquatic food production, microbial systems, cost-efficient, sustainable platform

© 2024 Vikash Kumar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

An Overview of Modern Biotechnological Tools in Aquatic Food Production – A Review

Published Online: Jan 23, 2024

Page range: 13 - 25

Received: Nov 23, 2022

Accepted: Apr 12, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aoas-2023-0034

Keywordsbiotechnological tools, aquatic food production, microbial systems, cost-efficient, sustainable platform

© 2024 Vikash Kumar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
biotechnological tools, aquatic food production, microbial systems, cost-efficient, sustainable platform