Professor Johan Aerts, Head of the Stress Physiology Research Group (StressChron), explains why reducing stress in farmed fish is an essential way to optimise aquaculture sustainability.
With demand rising globally, octopus farming is developing apace – but, mindful of both the animals’ welfare and concerns around sustainability, should we be scaling it up at all?
Angela Ashby, head of clinical services at Fish Vet Group, explains how the complimentary diagnostics courses the company started offering their clients are proving increasingly popular since their launch earlier this year.
The emeritus professor of functional ecology at the University of Glasgow, who is one of the world’s preeminent experts on fish behaviour, discusses salmon welfare, nesting sticklebacks… and a near death experience while at work.
Huw Golledge, senior scientific programme manager for the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA), explains some of the key the issues that helped inspire a £1.7 million donation to projects that improve the welfare of fish, crustacea and cephalopods at the time of…
Eirik Sigstadstø, R&D director at the Norwegian Research Fund (FHF), has high hopes for next week’s sea louse control conference in Trondheim, in which the use of lumpfish and wrasse are set to be high on the agenda.
There is increasing evidence that farmers can augment brain growth in their fish by mimicking aspects of their natural habitat in farm sites. But, from a welfare point of view, are bigger brains a blessing or a curse?
