Welfare

The RSPCA is currently inviting applications for a role as a senior scientific officer, who will develop and advise on the charity’s policy and strategy in relation to the welfare of farmed fish, particularly salmon and …

The use of tags to monitor the behaviour of farmed fish can provide scientists with important information, but also create welfare issues, according to a new study.

Why the public interest in the controversial documentary offers the perfect opportunity to address many of the myths about aquaculture.

Erroneous claims by the makers of Seaspiracy about the weight of forage fish required in feed to make a kilo of farmed salmon are being removed by Neflix, following complaints by BioMar.

Claims that Scottish salmon farmers were failing to safeguard the welfare of their fish have been refuted by the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA).

The lack of literature relating to the welfare of many farmed aquatic species has raised grave concerns in a group of reseachers.

New research suggests that using lumpfish or ballan wrasse to combat sea lice in offshore fish farms isn’t workable – the strong currents and extreme weather conditions leave them at risk of exhaustion and injury.

Tilapia living in crowded aquaculture ponds or small freshwater reservoirs adapt so well to these stressful environments that they stop growing and reproduce at a smaller size than their stress-free counterparts.

The damning reviews that a new documentary, Seaspiracy, was receiving in the aquaculture media didn’t encourage me to reach for the remote and settle down to watch Netflix yesterday evening.

Scotland’s salmon farmers have today invited official auditors to check any farm, without advance notice, in response to a report that questioned the industry’s fish welfare record.

Wild broodstock are still widely collected – both for aquaculture and for restocking purposes – but ensuring the health and welfare of these mature finfish requires careful capture and transport procedures.

A new welfare scoring index for lumpfish, designed to detect signs of health deterioration, has been developed by researchers in Norway.

Lower stocking densities in salmon farms can lead to greater levels of sea lice infestation per fish, according to a new study.

A new data analytics platform that aims to predict the overall health of the fish in any aquaculture installation is currently under development.

Many critics of land-based salmon farms believe that their higher stocking densities threaten fish welfare – but, according to the CEO of Salmon Evolution, this may not be the case.

Adding krill to the diets of salmon smolts when they are first transferred to marine grow-out sites – one of the most testing times in the farming cycle – could dramatically improve their growth rates and reduce mortalit…

A series of feed trials suggests that farmed ballan wrasse should not be given extruded feed, as it has been linked to the development of skeletal deformities, although further research is still required.

A new set of aquaculture standards has just been released by American Humane, the United States’ oldest and largest certifier of farm animal welfare.

Skretting and Proteon Pharmaceuticals are joining forces to develop bacteriophage technology for aquaculture.

Marco Cerqueira, author of Fish Welfare Initiative’s new report on global aquaculture, explains why carp welfare in India is a key focus area for the startup and how this can be improved.