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New paper out!
How has fish welfare science evolved over the past two decades — and where do we need to go next? In “Fish welfare in a changing world: New developments and current challenges”, we helped to review key advances since Huntingford et al. (2006), highlighting how the field is expanding to better capture what matters to fish.
🔎 Key insights:
▪️Expanding attention to welfare across research, aquaculture, aquaria, and fisheries
▪️Increasing focus on cognition and affective states
▪️Advances in welfare indicators, from operational tools to lab-based methods
▪️Growing interest in positive welfare, beyond minimizing harm
▪️Strong links between fish welfare, sustainability, and societal expectations
▪️Situating fish welfare within the ‘One Health’ and ‘One Welfare’ approaches
💡 Take-home message: fish welfare is a rapidly evolving field — but major challenges remain, including climate change, cultural perceptions, and how people usually interpret fish sentience and cognition.
Read more here.
(posted on 2026/04/24)
➜About us
FishEthoGroup is a team of motivated professionals focused on improving fish welfare based on their behaviours.
We develop scientific and applied actions to reach our goals by promoting research, helping to disseminate knowledge, giving consultancy, and training about fish welfare.
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Who we are
Who we are
We are a non-profit association bridging the gaps between science and the stakeholders in the aquaculture sector: producers, certifiers, retailers, NGOs, policy makers and consumers. Our goal is to study and improve the welfare of farmed fishes and other aquatic animals by applying ethological scientific knowledge into best practices in fish farming.
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What we stand for
What we stand for
Throughout the years, our team has been involved in many areas of the aquaculture sector, from scientific research to campaigning, from auditing to policy. We use that expertise to promote the welfare of fishes through many initiatives with our partners and collaborators.
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What we do
What we do
We develop science-based solutions to assess and improve the welfare of captive and wild-caught fishes. In our approach, we apply a strong background in aquaculture and ethology to address the welfare of fishes. We use state-of-the-art knowledge on the behaviour of a species to understand how its welfare is affected under farming conditions and what we can do to promote it.
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If you are interested in scientific and technical expertise applied to welfare in fish farming, please contact us.
We develop custom-made welfare solutions for your initiatives, as consultancy in farms or other facilities, tailored courses, guidance, certification requirements or systems, specific research studies and welfare protocols (see What we do).
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