Books

The Welfare of Fish, 2020, Editors: Tore S. Kristiansen, Anders Fernö, Michail A. Pavlidis, Hans van de Vis. Springer Cham. 515pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41675-1

FISHWELL Atlantic salmon welfare handbook, 2018. Editors: Noble, C., Gismervik, K., Iversen, M. H., Kolarevic, J., Nilsson, J., Stien, L. H. & Turnbull, J. F. Nofima, 351pp. https://nofima.com/results/the-english-version-of-the-fishwell-atlantic-salmon-welfare-handbook-is-out-now/

Posters

European Public Perceptions of Fish Welfare (Eurogroup for Animals)

FISHWELL Morphological Operational Welfare Indicators (OWI’s) for farmed Atlantic salmon v1.1 (Nofima)

Enrichment for fish during rearing (Compassion in World Farming Food Business)

Reports

Many reports including on pangasius, tilapia, carp and shrimp from Compassion in world farming - Food business

Humane slaughter of finfish farmed around the world (Humane Slaughter Association, 2018)

The welfare of farmed fish during slaughter in the EU (Compassion in World Farming, 2018)

On-farm Welfare Standards in Aquaculture (Eurogroup for Animals, 2022)

Decapod Crustaceans and Cephalopod Molluscs in EU Animal Welfare Legislation (Eurogroup for Animals, 2021)

Review of the evidence of sentience in cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans (London School of Economics, 2021)

Fish Welfare Scoping Report: Vietnam (Fish Welfare Initiative, 2020)

Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches (International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020)

Animal Welfare Indicators - Guidelines (VDFF, 2018)

Shrimp Welfare Report (The Shrimp Welfare Project, 2022)

The Snapshot 2023: Industry Benchmark on Decapod Crustacean Welfare (Crustacean Compassion, 2023)

RSPCA - 2021 Welfare Standards for Farmed Salmon

Academic Papers

Albalat, A., Zacarias, S., Coates, C.J., Neil, D.M., Planellas, S.R., 2022. Welfare in Farmed Decapod Crustaceans , With Particular Reference to Penaeus vannamei 9, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.886024

Browning, H., 2023. Improving welfare assessment in aquaculture. Front. Vet. Sci. 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1060720

Chambers, J.A., Crumlish, M., Comerford, D.A., Phuoc, L.H., Phuong, V.H. & O’Carroll, R.E. 2022. Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy in Vietnamese Fish Farmers. Antibiotics. 11, 878. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/11/7/878

Huntingford, F.A., Adams, C., Braithwaite, V.A., Kadri, S., Pottinger, T.G., Sandoe, P. and Turnbull, J.F. 2006. Review Paper: Current issues in fish welfare. Journal of Fish Biology, 68, 332-372 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-1112.2006.001046.x

Huntingford, F., Rey, S., Quaggiotto, M.M., 2020. Behavioural fever, fish welfare and what farmers and fishers know. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2020.105090

Jones, M., Alexander, M.E., Snellgrove, D., Smith, P., Bramhall, S., Carey, P., Henriquez, F.L., McLellan, I., Sloman, K.A., 2022. How should we monitor welfare in the ornamental fish trade? Rev. Aquac. 14, 770–790. https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12624

Stentiford, G.D., Bateman, I.J., Hinchliffe, S.J., Bass, D., Hartnell, R., Santos, E.M., Devlin, M.J., Feist, S.W., Taylor, N.G.H., Verner-Jeffreys, D.W., van Aerle, R., Peeler, E.J., Higman, W.A., Smith, L., Baines, R., Behringer, D.C., Katsiadaki, I., Froehlich, H.E., Tyler, C.R., 2020. Sustainable aquaculture through the One Health lens. Nat. Food 1, 468–474. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0127-5

Pedrazzani, A.S., Quintiliano, M.H., Bolfe, F., Sans, E.C. de O., Molento, C.F.M., 2020. Tilapia On-Farm Welfare Assessment Protocol for Semi-intensive Production Systems. Front. Vet. Sci. 7, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.606388

Pedrazzani A.S., Cozer, N., Quintiliano, M.H., Santos Tavares, C. P. dos, deSiva, A.T., & Ostrensky, A. Non-Invasive Methods for Assessing the Welfare of Farmed White-leg Shrimp. Animals 2023, 13, 807. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13050807

Other articles

Nautilus - Fish are not insentient dullards

Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) - Press Release - “There can be no fish farming without fish welfare

Databases, Software & Apps

FishEthoBase

FAI Farms Tilapia Welfare App

Courses

FAI Academy - Tilapia Welfare Online Courses

GAIN - Sustainability of aquaculture products online course

The Centre for Responsible Seafood - Courses in humane harvesting and sentience in Aquatic Animals

Edinburgh University - Coursera - Animal behaviour and welfare

Videos

Video from the EU SEAT project (2013) discussing the introduction of the fish welfare standards in Scottish Aquaculture and likely similar developments in Asia

Explainer from the WELFISH project

Introductory video from the Global Seafood Alliance

More in-depth discussion of practical fish welfare issues from University of California Davis

Short video of an electric stunner in action from University of California Davis

Recording of the Second Symposium on Welfare in Aquaculture (26/11/2020)

Rethink Fish - From Compassion in World Farming

Blue Planet: Pufferfish “crop circles”

Blue Planet: Fish that use tools