About this journal

Critical Insights in Aquaculture (CIAQ)is a selective, Open Access, interdisciplinary journal that publishes quality, forward-thinking, impactful scientific research on aquaculture.

CIAQ brings together the best research from across the breadth of aquaculture dealing with critical issues facing the sector alongside cross disciplinary research from the natural, social and applied sciences. In marked contrast to existing, largely academic-based, aquaculture journals CIAQ's editorial board includes representatives from the commercial sector, farmers, feed ingredient suppliers and manufacturers, fish/seafood retailers, environmental NGOs and government research organizations, alongside academic researchers.

The scope of the journal is split into these three sections:

• Natural Sciences including articles on nutrition, breeding, genetics, microbiology and the environment.
• Social Sciences with a focus on aquaculture policy, economics, history, law, anthropology, sociology, media and communication.
• Applied Sciences addressing aquatic diseases, feed technology, health and safety, farming systems, modelling, robotics and engineering.

CIAQ is particularly interested in receiving manuscripts that aim to address some of the critical issues facing the aquaculture sector (through the use of invited mini-reviews),, with the aim of improving the long-term environmental, social, and economic sustainability of the aquaculture sector for current and future generations

1. What are the Critical Insights Journals

From the latest research to championing new thinking and new approaches. The Critical Insights journals select you the research you need to know that shapes the future of your field.
Advancing research through quality, trust, impact, and partnership.

2. Why choose a Critical Insights journal?

We're dedicated to ensuring your research receives the attention it deserves. Our Commitment to you is:

• Quick Decisions – your manuscript will be assessed within 7 days. If it will not be sent to review, we will tell you as soon as possible so you can transfer or submit elsewhere without delays.
• Quality Reviews – we are the gatekeepers of true and trusted content. Our Editors will inform you why we made our decision (rather than just saying no) and provide advice on how to improve your manuscript.
• Experts – like you, the journal is part of the community. Our Editors and Referees know the field and community and put that at the centre of everything we do and the decisions we make.
• Best Paper Forward – our staff, rather than a machine, will copyedit your paper, so the published work is as clear and accessible as possible. Figures (and images) will be in a format that can easily re-used and shared.
• Research in Context – we will work with you to create a summary of your work telling everyone (including your funder, supervisors, and colleagues) what you have done and what it means for your community. We call it a Critical Insights Summary.

From start to finish our aim is to provide guidance and publish as quickly as possible. Once your research is out there, we will enhance its readability, impact, and visibility so you can drive your community forward and enhance your career.

3.    Article Types

• Research Articles – no limits on length or figures. Your article should be able to say what it needs so that the community understand your work and your findings. Open Research is key so methods should be complete, and data should be available so the community can replicate and build on the research.
• Insights – review articles that help researchers (new or established) ‘ get up to speed’ in a particular area. Articles should be no more than 6,000 words long and review the last 5 years of work in a field and, most importantly, outline a future direction! Whilst these articles are commissioned only if you have an idea please contact the editor before submitting.
  
• Commentaries - a personal view from a leader in the field that outlines the challenges the community faces and potential directions for research that overcome these challenges.
  
• Methods – not all great work needs to have positive results or a conclusion. Sometimes the best work is around developing or optimizing a process, technique or protocol. These articles present, in detail, the new approach, improvement over previous methods, and the long-term impact this may have on the field.
  

4.   The Critical Insights Vision

• Quality – highly respected Editors, Boards and Referees who are committed to shaping their community and driving the field of research forward.
• Trust – the work you see has been reviewed by our Editors  so; as a Referee  you know that you are being asked to look at something good! And, as a Reader  you know that our editors and referees are in the field and the published research is relevant, interesting, and can be trusted.
• Impact – through Critical Insights Summaries you can quickly understand how a paper builds on, and advances, your field of research.
• Partnership – We listen, our editors who are active members of the community, and want your feedback. Our aim is to make this the journal series you want, and need, it to be!

  Editor-in-Chief

Dr Albert Tacon - Aquahana LLC, Hawaii, USA

Senior Editors 

Natural Sciences 
Kabir Chowdhury - Jefo, Canada

Social Sciences 
Suzi Dominy - Blue, Wave Media, USA  

Applied Sciences 
Daniel Lemos - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 

Editorial Board 

Carrie Brownstein - Whole Foods Market, USA
Alejandro Buschmann - Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile
Chris Carter - University of Tasmania, Australia
Angela Caporelli - KY Dept. of Agriculture, USA
Niti Chuchird - Kasetsart University, Thailand
Dave Conley - The Aquaculture Communications Group, Canada
Olivier Decamp - INVE Aquaculture, Belgium
Abdel El-Sayed -  Alexandria University, Egypt 
Tufan Eroldoğan - Cukurova University, Turkey
Ian Forster - Government of Canada (Fisheries and OCeans Canada), Canada
Jorge Galindo-Villegas - Nord University, Norway
Rachid Ganga - Aquasustain Consulting In., Canada/Morocco
Antonio Garza - Aquaculture without Frontiers, Australia
Brett Glencross - IFFO – The Marine Ingredients Organisation 
John Hargreaves - Freelance Consultant, USA
Maria Haws - University of Hawaii Hilo, USA
Alexandre Wagner Silva Hilsdorf -  University of Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil
Fotini Kokou – Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Trond Kortner - Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Cheng-Sheng Lee - University of Hawaii Manoa, USA
Jessica Levy - São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil
May Myat Noe Lwin - Aller Aqua Group, Southeast Asia and South Asia region
Marc Metian - International Atomic Energy Agency, Monaco
Aaron A. McNevin - World Wildlife Fund, USA 
Ahmed Nasr-Allah - WorldFish, Egypt
Alex Obach - Skretting Aquaculture Innovation, Norway
Oduntan Oluwafemi Babatunde - University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Waldemar Rossi Jr - Kentucky State University, USA
Wendy Sealey - USDA, USA
Sandra Shumway - University of Connecticut, USA
Melanie Siggs - Global Seafood Alliance, USA
Neil Sims - Ocean Era Inc., USA
Rohana Subasinghe - FUTUREFISH Co. Ltd, UK 
Victor Suresh - United Research (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, Singapore 
Cedric Simon - CSIRO, Australia
Loc Tran - Nong Lam University at HCMC, Vietnam
Jim Wyban - Germinate Hawaii, USA 
Fanny Yasumaru - James Cook University, Singapore

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