o:8362 FROM POND TO PAGE: TEACHING SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE THROUGH THE BioAqua COMIC en Aquaculture is vital for global food security, especially in developing regions where fish is a key protein source. The sector’s rapid growth supports millions of livelihoods but is vulnerable to disease outbreaks that threaten aquatic health, ecological safety, and sustainability. Overuse of antibiotics to control diseases raises concerns about antimicrobial resistance and drug residues in the food chain. While ecological aquaculture offers solutions, scaling it without losing productivity is difficult, making innovative, sustainable disease management essential. The COST Action BioAqua tackles this by creating childfriendly educational materials on fish welfare and One Health to inspire future generations toward sustainable aquaculture. The BioAqua comic designed science communication, entitled “Fish Superpowers!”, has been crafted to disseminate the state of-the-art technologies used for sustainable aquaculture to young children at school (non-specialist audiences). It features several chapters explaining the main topics related to aquaculture, food safety, and sustainability. The comic provides multiple educational sources: Science education (fun introduction to microbiology, nutrition, and environmental science), Health education (lessons on why food safety and hygiene matter), Civic and ecological education (understanding sustainability, shared responsibility, and the One Health concept). Aquaculture, Biomolecular solution, Food safety, One Health ecosystem, Sustainable practices 2025-10-20T10:11:50.634Z 44 no 46 Rajat Nag UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, University 46 Danny Morick The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel 46 Vladimir Radosavljevic Institute of Veterinary Medicine of Serbia, Belgrade 46 Eva Garcia-Muntion Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Facultad de Educación, Madrid, Spain 46 Nada Ćujić Nikolić Institute for Medicinal Plant Research, Dr. Josif Pančić, Belgrade 0000-0002-6736-3637 46 Sophia Lima Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Portugal 46 Anton Gerilovych One Health Scientific and Research Institute, PSI/Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of NAS of Ukraine 46 Elvira Fatsini Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of Algarve (Campus Gambelas), Portugal; Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Tarragona, Spain application/pdf 2195244 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:8362 no yes 1 70 92000004 71A10 Aquaculture Europe 2025 ABSTRACTS 552 553 www.aquaeas.org 2025