PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Aquac.
Sec. Society, Value Chains, Governance and Development
Volume 4 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/faquc.2025.1627309
This article is part of the Research TopicAquaculture Embedded in Wider Agri-Food SystemsView all 4 articles
A Blue Transformation for Global One Health
Provisionally accepted
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft, United Kingdom
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Global per capita consumption of aquatic foods has never been higher though significant differences between nations exist. Nutritional benefits of consuming aquatic foods, their wider role in food security and a potentially lower food safety risks of consumption compared to other meats combine with lower environmental footprints to deliver One Health benefits of a so-called ‘Blue Transformation’. Whilst intuitive, correct, this can only be achieved, however, by protecting and enhancing water quality in our rivers, seas and ocean, by mitigating the negative impacts of climate change at locations where aquatic production occurs, and by ensuring poor animal health does not catalyse over-use of antimicrobial agents which subsequently threaten human, animal and environment health.
Keywords: Aquaculture, Food security, Food Safety, Seafood, One Health
Received: 12 May 2025; Accepted: 28 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Stentiford, Bass and Bremner. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Grant David Stentiford, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft, United Kingdom
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