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Exploitation of Marine Waste for Value-Added Products Synthesis

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Oceanic animals such as fish, crabs, oysters, shrimps, and snails are one of the most nutritious, abundantly available sources in nature which have led to a tremendous increase in the global demand of these animals. Nevertheless, most of the non-consumable parts such as head, skin, trimmings, fins, bones, viscera, shells as well as roe are discarded into deep ocean and harbor which leads to increase in the land and water pollution. This low value-added marine waste can be exploited for the isolation of high value-added products such as proteins, peptides, and polymers on commercial scale level in agriculture, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics sectors.

The fish consumption studies have revealed that since 1961–2013, there was a significant increase (3.2%) at an average annual rate for fish food supply. Moreover, fishing industries generate massive waste materials which have been exceeded to almost 20 million tons, comparable to 25% of total marine species caught. In this chapter, the main focus is to investigate fish waste sources which are being used to generate various high value-added products such as bioactive peptides, chitin, chitosan, gelatin, collagen, and polymeric sulfates. We found that marine waste-derived polymers and peptides due to their low molecular weight had the ability to pass through the cells easily and showed an outstanding wound healing and tissue regeneration capabilities at the targeted site when used in therapeutics studies. Moreover, these extracted products also showed low toxicity, high activity, high biodegradability, and biocompatibility as compared to chemical-based products and henceforth can be used in food and pharmaceutical sectors.

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Abbreviations

ACE:

Angiotensin-converting enzyme

EDS:

Electron dispersive spectroscopy

EDTA:

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

ESI-MS/MS:

Electrospray ionization tandem-mass spectrometry

FTIR:

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

LC-MS/MS:

Liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry

MALDI-TOF:

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight

NMR:

Nuclear magnetic resonance

SDS-PAGE:

Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

SEM:

Scanning electron microscopy

sp. :

Species

TGA:

Thermal gravimetric analysis

TLC:

Thin layer chromatography

UF-DF:

Ultrafiltration-diafiltration

XRD:

X-Ray diffraction

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Nazeer, R.A., Joshi, I., Balde, A., Chatterjee, A., Narayanasamy, A. (2023). Exploitation of Marine Waste for Value-Added Products Synthesis. In: Samuel Jacob, B., Ramani, K., Vinoth Kumar, V. (eds) Applied Biotechnology for Emerging Pollutants Remediation and Energy Conversion. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1179-0_15

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