Current issues in fish welfare

Review paper: Current issues in fish welfare

Human beings may affect the welfare of fish through fisheries, aquaculture and a number of other activities. There is no agreement on just how to weigh the concern for welfare of fish against the human interests involved, but ethical frameworks exist that suggest how this might be approached. Different definitions of animal welfare focus on an animal’s condition, on its subjective experience of...

Welfare in farmed fish

institutes located in Tromsø, Narvik and Alta. The Norut Group has 220 employees whose applied research and development encompasses a wide variety of interdisciplinary fields. Each subsidiary institute has a specific research emphasis, but common to all is activity centered around the polar and Barents regions. Fiskeriforskning (Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research) conduct...

Fish Welfare Literature Review

Welfare Policy Integration Issues

What purposes should social and labor market policy serve in increasingly interrelated economic systems? And do current arrangements serve them well in the European framework? This paper reviews the relevant issues focusing in particular on assignment of decision power at different levels of governance, and on theoretically clear and empirically apparent sources of incoherent and ineffective po...

Psychological Stress and Welfare in Fish

Galhardo L, Oliveira RF. Psychological Stress and Welfare in Fish. Annu Rev Biomed Sci 2009;11:1-20. The ability to respond to stress is vital to the survival of any living organism, though sustained reactions can become detrimental to the health and welfare of animals. Stress responses of vertebrates are known through several studies in their physiological, behavioural and psychological compon...