This book addresses, reviews and evaluates key themes in organic aquaculture and is set out to show how these relate to the challenges and bottlenecks for a responsible organic aquaculture production in Europe. The key themes reflect the main challenges facing the organic aquaculture industry: guarantee and certification system, nutrition, reproduction, production system design and animal welfare. In addition, it assesses the impact of new and future potential development of new knowledge to update and modify the criteria and standards for organic aquaculture. Organic aquaculture is an alternative production approach driven by the growing interest in sustainable utilization of resources. It is rightly viewed as an important contributor to the economy and to the well-being and health of communities. This work will contribute to the scientific knowledge that needs to strengthen effective organic aquaculture. The collation of information on research and data will be of applied value to researchers, university students, end users and policy authorities in the EU and worldwide.

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Giuseppe Lembo is Chairman of COISPA. He has more than 25 years' experience in the field of fishery and aquaculture during which he participated and/or coordinated several EU and national research projects in the field of stock assessment, fishery management, fish telemetry and spatial distribution/dynamics, conventional & organic aquaculture, fish behaviour and welfare. During his career, he was member of a number of Scientific Associations, Committees and working groups of several organizations (e.g. Italian Ministry of Agriculture Policy, Italian Society of Marine Biology SIBM, European Commission, European Aquaculture Society - EAS, Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, International Federation of Organic Movement IFOAM). He is currently the chair of the Expert Group for Technical advice on the Organic Production (EGTOP) of the European Commission.

Elena Mente is a Professor of aquatic animal nutrition and physiology at the University of Thessaly in Greece and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen in the UK. She was awarded a Training and Mobility Researchers Postgraduate Fellowship aiming at PhD research in crustacean physiology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research interests lie mainly in aquaculture and nutrition of aquatic animals. Her publications include edited volumes, books and chapters in books (15) and more than 60 research papers in many peer-reviewed journals as co-author/author. She has cooperated with more than 20 research teams in different countries through national, bi-lateral and EU funded projects. She currently serves in the Editorial team of 5 well-respected peer-reviewed scientific journals and she is associate editor in the Journal of Crustacean Biology. She is actively involved in several research projects supported by the European Commission and by the aquaculture industry.

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Chapter 1: Organic aquaculture: principles, standards and certification

David Gould, Antonio Compagnoni and Giuseppe Lembo

Chapter 2: EU Regulation on organic aquaculture

Emanuele Busacca and Giuseppe Lembo

Chapter 3: Organic aquaculture: economics, market and consumer aspects

Danilo Gambelli, Simona Naspetti, Katrin Zander and Raffaele Zanoli**

Chapter 4: Genomics era on breeding aquaculture stocks

Petros V. Martsikalis, Georgios A. Gkafas, Christos Palaiokostas and Athanasios Exadactylos

Chapter 5: Early life stages and weaning

Alicia Estévez, Nikos Papandroulakis, Mathieu Wille and Patrick Sorgeloos

Chapter 6: Aquaculture production systems and environmental interactions

Dror Angel, Alfred Jokumsen and Giuseppe Lembo

Chapter 7: Welfare issues and veterinary treatments

Giuseppe Lembo, Pierluigi Carbonara, Andrea Fabris, Amedeo Manfrin and Walter Zupa

Chapter 8: Nutrition in relation to organic aquaculture: sources and strategies

Elena Mente, Alfred Jokumsen, Chris Carter, Efi Antonopoulou and Tacon Albert