Prof. Dr. Ercüment Genç is a full professor at the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University. He has been actively involved in the field of responsible aquaculture since 1995, with a particular emphasis on sustainable production systems and species-specific health management.

Since December 2014, he has served as a member of the National Committee on Registration of Aquatic Genetic Resources, contributing expert evaluations on aquatic biodiversity and genetic conservation. He is also affiliated with the Agriculture and Food Ethics Association and is an active member of the Chamber of Agricultural Engineers in Ankara.

His main research interests include fish and shrimp aquaculture, the use of immune stimulants, functional nutrition, liver and intestinal histopathology, and biosecurity in aquaculture systems. He has also conducted extensive work on the implementation of biofloc technology as a sustainable approach to nutrient recycling and water quality management in intensive aquaculture.

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Laith A. Jawad obtained a degree (M.Sc.) in fish taxonomy from the Zoology Department, University of Bristol, the UK in 1980. He continued as a fish taxonomist at Basrah University, Iraq, where he worked for more than 20 years before he immigrated to New Zealand in 1997. During this time, he started the biochemical taxonomy of fishes of Iraq and published over 595 scientific papers and book reviews in leading scientific journals. He is the author and co-author of several textbooks in biology published in Arabic. In 2016, he contributed five chapters to a book about coastal fishes,” Coastal fishes, habitat, behaviour and conservation”, published by Nova Publishers, Canada. He served as fish biodiversity and consultant at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Oman for the period 2008-2012 during which he co-authored two papers describing two new fish species to science from the Omani waters and reported over 90 fish species as a new record to the Omani waters. He wrote a book about the dangerous fishes of the eastern and southern Arabian Peninsula that has been published by Springer, Germany. He authored a guide to the fishes of the southern coasts of Oman, which was published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Muscat, Oman in 2018. He also published over 100 papers on the fish fauna of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. In 2013, he broadens his scientific contact and started to collaborate with over 50 scientists from over 40 countries around the world in research dealing with different aspects of fish taxonomy and ichthyology. Recently, he edited the three books for Springer in Germany and Switzerland and published in 2021 by Springer. These are: (1) The Arabian seas: Biodiversity, Environment Challenges and Conservation Measures; (2) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: their environment from headwaters to mouth; and (3) Southern Iraq’s Marshes: their environment and conservation.

Laith A. Jawad obtained a degree (M.Sc.) in fish taxonomy from the Zoology Department, University of Bristol, the UK in 1980. He continued as a fish taxonomist at Basrah University, Iraq, where he worked for more than 20 years before he immigrated to New Zealand in 1997. During this time, he started the biochemical taxonomy of fishes of Iraq and published over 595 scientific papers and book reviews in leading scientific journals. He is the author and co-author of several textbooks in biology published in Arabic. In 2016, he contributed five chapters to a book about coastal fishes,” Coastal fishes, habitat, behaviour and conservation”, published by Nova Publishers, Canada. He served as fish biodiversity and consultant at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Oman for the period 2008-2012 during which he co-authored two papers describing two new fish species to science from the Omani waters and reported over 90 fish species as a new record to the Omani waters. He wrote a book about the dangerous fishes of the eastern and southern Arabian Peninsula that has been published by Springer, Germany. He authored a guide to the fishes of the southern coasts of Oman, which was published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Muscat, Oman in 2018. He also published over 100 papers on the fish fauna of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. In 2013, he broadens his scientific contact and started to collaborate with over 50 scientists from over 40 countries around the world in research dealing with different aspects of fish taxonomy and ichthyology. Recently, he edited the three books for Springer in Germany and Switzerland and published in 2021 by Springer. These are: (1) The Arabian seas: Biodiversity, Environment Challenges and Conservation Measures; (2) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: their environment from headwaters to mouth; and (3) Southern Iraq’s Marshes: their environment and conservation.