Author:
Siti Nurin Nabilah Muhammad Zamri, Ahmed Jalal Khan Chowdhury, Zul-Fikar Ikram Hamdani

Doi: 10.26480/amdn.01.2025.08.14

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Aquaculture has expanded substantially in recent years due to massive growth in culture conditions.However, these extended circumstances led to increased stress, disease occurrence, new infections, and theuse of synthetic chemicals to address these challenging issues. To combat disease outbreaks, farmers areutilizing chemicals like hormones, antibiotics, and vitamins. Unfortunately, these chemical substances areoften introduced into culture systems without understanding the appropriate dose, application methods,mode of action, and degradation capability. This can have adverse consequences on animals, accumulate inedible tissue, and lead to drug resistance in pathogens. Throughout history, herbs have been utilized toalleviate ailments and revitalize the body systems during almost all ancient civilizations. Herbal medicine hasrecently become popular in aquaculture operations due to its benefits over synthetic chemicals and costeffective.Generally, the herbal plants are known for their anti-microbial, antifungal, anti-parasitic, growthpromotion, hunger stimulation, immunostimulant, and stress-reduction capabilities. Indian almond trees(Terminalia catappa Linn.) are one of them. Tannin is the main chemical component of T. catappa that hasantibacterial properties. This article reviews several scientific statements on the use of Indian almond leaves as herbal biomedicine towards water quality management and aquaculture purposes as well. A basic tea bag filled with dried almond leaves could fulfill these purposes which are designed to appeal to ecologically conscious consumers. Interesting fact, that this sustainable technique can be focused on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-Being) and (SDG 14 – Life Below Water), that foster healthy aquatic ecosystems during small-scale aquaculture business activities.