Call for Papers for Special Issue:
Aquaculture and Environmental Pollution
1. Introduction of Special Issue
Aquaculture can be described as the breeding and harvesting of aquatic organisms,
both marine and freshwater, and has been the fastest growing food-producing sector
in the world, contributing to almost half of all fish for human food. This share is
projected to rise to 62 percent by 2030 as catches from wild capture fisheries level
off and consumption by an emerging global middle class substantially increases.
Aquaculture is a source not just of health, but also of wealth, especially for
developing countries, and continues to be one of the most-traded food commodities
in global range.
However, a key concern with the practice of aquaculture is environmental pollution
in its production processes as well as its environmental impact. Various toxic
chemicals that enter into the environment either intentionally or unintentionally,
which could potentially accumulate in aquatic organisms and transferred through the
food chain. Meanwhile, effluent from farmed areas could cause environmental
pollution, such as nutrient buildup (mostly organic nitrogen and phosphorus) and
wastes in ecosystems.
The sustainable development of aquaculture is becoming a challenging issue for
scientists, policy-makers, and stakeholders. Therefore, more studies should be
conducted to explore the relationship between aquaculture and environmental
pollution. A Special Issue Aquaculture and Environmental Pollution, focusing on
the novel finding and in-depth understanding of the relationship, will be edited and
published in the journal of Environmental Pollution.
If you have a relevant research manuscript, a review, or a commentary designed to
stimulate discussion, we invite you to submit it to Environmental Pollution. Choose
the article type as ' Aqua & Environ Pollu' when you submit your papers. Please
send no later than April 1, 2016.
2. Guest editors
Xiang-Zhou Meng
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
College of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Email: xzmeng@tongji.edu.cn
Ming-Hung Wong
Consortium on Health, Environment, Education and Research (CHEER), and
Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of
Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong, China
Email: minghwong@ied.edu.hk
3. Submission
Please submit your manuscript online.
The Elsevier Editorial System for this journal is located at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/envpol/default.asp
Please select “SI: Aqua & Environ Pollu” when you reach the “Article Type” step in
the submission process (shown below).
4. Journal information
Environmental Pollution is an international journal that seeks to publish papers that
report results from original, novel research that addresses significant environmental
pollution issues and problems and contribute new knowledge to science.
The Impact Factor of Environmental Pollution in 2014 is 4.143.
More information about the journal can be obtained via website:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-pollution/