Fish protection during fish production. Organizational conditions for fish welfare

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

Evaluating and Optimizing Fish Health and Welfare During Experimental Procedures.

Many facilities house fish in separate static containers post-procedure, for example, while awaiting genotyping results. This ensures fish can be easily identified, but it does not allow for provision of continuous filtered water or diet. At the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, concern over the housing conditions led to the development of an individual housing system (GeneS) enabling feeding an...

New technologies for increasing the production of ornamental fish

In recent years, world trade in ornamental fish has grown significantly. Southeast Asia industry use this potential to export these species to other countries. Considering the importance of ornamental fish, attempting to produce more marketable fish is one of the goals of ornamental fish breeders. In this regard, new methods such as coloring for producing the best fish variety, sex change aimed...

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...