Aquaculture has a vital role in the global food production as a poverty alleviator during the last few decades. Despite the tremendous benefits provided to the mankind aquaculture production system still faces many challenges like, disease outbreak, environmental calamities, water pollution and so on. To overcome these circumstances, it is mandatory to accept the most recent techniques like nanotechnology which may help to boost the aquaculture production at an incredible level. Nanotechnology is a new tool of biotechnology with implausible potential in vast areas of aquaculture like nutrition, detection of pathogens, water purification to name but a few. Its application in aquaculture may help to improve the productivity at a fast pace. This review article presents the current advancements of nanotechnology and its applications in several areas of aquaculture. full text
