Fish welfare

TagLast edit: 25 Mar 2022 21:12 UTC by Pablo

Fish welfare is the study of interventions aimed at improving the welfare of fish.

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Fish Count. A website focused on increasing understanding and awareness of fish sentience.

A Vegan Case for Eating Sardines and Anchovies

Chris Popa8 Jul 2025 15:22 UTC

106 points

35 comments13 min readEA link

The moral ambiguity of fishing on wild aquatic animal populations

Michael St Jules 🔸6 May 2024 23:03 UTC

94 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

New EA Fish Orgs: Collaboration between Fish Welfare Initiative and Aquatic Life Institute

william4 Jun 2020 15:40 UTC

67 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Introducing Fish Welfare Initiative

Tom Billington8 Oct 2019 17:38 UTC

94 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Rethink Priorities’ Welfare Range Estimates

Bob Fischer23 Jan 2023 11:37 UTC

354 points

138 comments16 min readEA link

Which animals are most affected by fishing?

Michael St Jules 🔸25 Nov 2024 5:39 UTC

54 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Cleaner Fish: A Neglected Issue Within A Neglected Issue

Martine Klock Fleten9 May 2021 9:32 UTC

54 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

(faunalytics.org)

The responsiveness of aquatic animal supply

Michael St Jules 🔸17 Apr 2024 6:05 UTC

54 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

Badness of eating farmed animals in terms of smoking cigarettes

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Jul 2023 8:45 UTC

26 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Ten Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2021

EA Forum Archives25 Dec 2021 3:39 UTC

51 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(mailchi.mp)

Notes from “Cognition, welfare, and the problem of interspecies comparisons”

Barry Grimes16 Nov 2021 9:17 UTC

30 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland

Jakub Stencel30 Dec 2022 17:47 UTC

370 points

25 comments14 min readEA link

(animainternational.org)

Fishing-aquaculture substitution and aquafeeds

Michael St Jules 🔸3 Jun 2024 5:39 UTC

45 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

Underwater Torture Chambers: The Horror Of Fish Farming

Bentham's Bulldog26 Jul 2023 0:08 UTC

174 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

Sustainable fishing policy increases fishing, and demand reductions might, too

Michael St Jules 🔸25 Apr 2024 0:11 UTC

54 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

Shrimp welfare in wild-caught fisheries: New detailed review article

Ren Ryba19 Dec 2023 21:35 UTC

41 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

How much do Europeans care about fish welfare? (An analysis of relevant surveys)

saulius22 Jun 2020 15:08 UTC

61 points

4 comments11 min readEA link

[LINK] Farmed Fish Welfare Report

kierangreig🔸24 Apr 2019 22:28 UTC

68 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Marginal Funding to Support Novel Fish Welfare Interventions

haven15 Nov 2024 10:17 UTC

52 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Slaughter of farmed seabass and seabream in Europe: Literature review

Ren Ryba9 Oct 2023 23:03 UTC

52 points

4 comments16 min readEA link

A Brief & Recent History of Fish: What I learned in a weekend

Spencer R. Ericson8 May 2023 7:58 UTC

59 points

4 comments12 min readEA link

Hiring Process and Takeaways from Fish Welfare Initiative

haven6 Apr 2020 5:30 UTC

114 points

12 comments11 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Initiative India’s Karthik Pulugurtha on fish welfare

Karthik Palakodeti1 Oct 2023 11:49 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(karthiklogic.substack.com)

Fish Welfare Initiative’s 2023 in Review

haven1 Feb 2024 5:27 UTC

84 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Scale of the welfare of various animal populations

Vasco Grilo🔸19 Mar 2023 7:10 UTC

58 points

24 comments5 min readEA link

Research for Effective Fish Welfare Work

Jennifer20 Jul 2020 12:05 UTC

32 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Humane slaughter in Mediterranean sea bass and bream aquaculture

Ren Ryba21 Mar 2024 20:00 UTC

17 points

1 comment16 min readEA link

Fish Feel Pain

Bentham's Bulldog10 Jul 2025 19:34 UTC

29 points

3 comments15 min readEA link

Two Years of Shrimp Welfare Project: Insights and Impact from our Explore Phase

Aaron Boddy🔸25 Sep 2023 8:24 UTC

193 points

13 comments17 min readEA link

Being swallowed live is a common way for wild aquatic animals to die

Michael St Jules 🔸9 Jun 2024 0:01 UTC

65 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

170 to 700 billion fish raised and fed live to mandarin fish in China per year

Michael St Jules 🔸8 Jun 2024 0:45 UTC

117 points

1 comment18 min readEA link

Cost-effectiveness of the fish welfare interventions recommended by Ambitious Impact, and Fish Welfare Initiative’s farm program

Vasco Grilo🔸24 Jan 2025 17:35 UTC

36 points

7 comments13 min readEA link

The Determinants of Adopting International Voluntary Certification Schemes for Farmed Fish and Shrimp in China and Thailand

jojo_lee17 Nov 2022 12:02 UTC

54 points

0 comments67 min readEA link

Aquatic Life Conference

Group Organizer29 May 2024 0:10 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Atlantic bluefin tuna are being domesticated: what are the welfare implications?

Amber Dawn6 Nov 2023 16:46 UTC

45 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

Aquatic Life Conference

Group Organizer22 Sep 2023 21:17 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Funder Opportunity: Aquatic Animal Funding Circle

Zoë Sigle 🔹13 Nov 2024 22:17 UTC

62 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

EAGxVirtual 2020 lightning talks

EA Global25 Jan 2021 15:32 UTC

13 points

1 comment33 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Linkpost: Prospective cost-effectiveness of farmed fish stunning corporate commitments in Europe

Sagar K Shah15 Mar 2024 15:06 UTC

76 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

[Linkpost] Why pescetarianism is bad for animal welfare—Vox, Future Perfect

Garrison16 Mar 2023 15:33 UTC

68 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

(bit.ly)

Cost-effectiveness of electrically stunning rainbow trout

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Aug 2025 16:42 UTC

20 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Writing about my (old) job: Fisheries scientist in government

Ren Ryba7 Dec 2023 0:13 UTC

32 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

Sharks probably do feel pain: a reply to Michael Tye and others

Max_Carpendale4 Feb 2019 13:51 UTC

24 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

EU farmed fish policy reform roadmap

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 22 Aug 2023 19:00 UTC

95 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

EA needs more humor

SWK1 Dec 2022 5:30 UTC

35 points

14 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Go fishing to save fish from a worse death?

yanni kyriacos15 Aug 2023 4:11 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

New cause area: bivalve aquaculture

Brian Lui12 Jun 2022 11:14 UTC

99 points

38 comments4 min readEA link

The scale of animal agriculture

Michael St Jules 🔸16 May 2024 4:01 UTC

51 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Is mosquito net fishing really net-positive?

Rachel Shu22 Jan 2024 1:58 UTC

56 points

16 comments2 min readEA link

Why Certify? Aquatic Life Institute’s Impact Implementation Via Seafood Certification

Tessa @ ALI7 Nov 2023 3:04 UTC

51 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Needed: Volunteer forecasters for Fish Welfare Initiative

haven21 Nov 2020 19:15 UTC

18 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] For vegetarians: Is there plausibly a kind of fish farm that would make eating fish ethical?

Luke Eure30 Jan 2022 7:16 UTC

17 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Fish farming: the invisible crisis we can no longer ignore

zoenewton29 Mar 2025 18:59 UTC

35 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Fish Have Surprisingly Impressive Mental Capabilities

Damin Curtis🔹27 Oct 2025 22:10 UTC

56 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Cause exploration: improving wild fish slaughter [half-baked, post-deadline]

Aaron Bergman12 Aug 2022 10:47 UTC

14 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

A direct way to reduce the catch of wild fish

Ren Ryba21 Jun 2022 10:09 UTC

17 points

12 comments10 min readEA link

Forecasting farmed animal numbers in 2033

Hannah McKay🔸9 May 2025 12:42 UTC

89 points

9 comments9 min readEA link

How we started our own EA charity (and why we decided to wrap up)

KvPelt🔹26 Feb 2024 8:27 UTC

170 points

13 comments13 min readEA link

Charity Entrepreneurship: Graduate lightning talks

EA Global3 Jul 2020 14:48 UTC

15 points

0 comments15 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Seeking Support: Help Fish Welfare Initiative Develop Remote Sensing Technology

haven17 Dec 2024 16:33 UTC

38 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

Chicken reforms and veg advocacy may contribute to the Small Animal Replacement Problem—it’s not just environmental strategies

Jim Buhler3 Jun 2025 14:33 UTC

55 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Policy advocacy against salmon stocking in Canada does not seem worth it

Thijs Jacobs14 Feb 2025 9:26 UTC

72 points

0 comments24 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Initiative Strategy Update: Broadening Our Research Mandate in India

haven28 Nov 2023 13:37 UTC

38 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Sentient Futures Summit Bay Area 2026

Jonah Woodward19 Nov 2025 4:30 UTC

37 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

CE: Who underrates their likelihood of success. Why applying is worthwhile.

SteveThompson3 Nov 2022 10:17 UTC

163 points

21 comments4 min readEA link

The Welfare Range Table

Bob Fischer7 Nov 2022 10:19 UTC

365 points

20 comments8 min readEA link

Megaprojects for animals

JamesÖz 🔸13 Jun 2022 9:20 UTC

266 points

25 comments15 min readEA link

Challenges in Aquatic Animal Stunning

KvPelt🔹24 Oct 2024 6:32 UTC

117 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

William Shatner joins Pacific Wild in message against fish farms.

Nathan Cashion24 Jun 2024 21:33 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

AI, Animals & Digital Minds NYC 2025: Retrospective

Jonah Woodward31 Oct 2025 3:09 UTC

43 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Initiative and Marginal Funding

haven21 Nov 2023 11:16 UTC

56 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Sentientia, Reversomelas, and the Small Animal Replacement Problem

Jim Buhler15 May 2025 12:29 UTC

46 points

10 comments4 min readEA link

Must We Hurt Even The Little Animals?

Bentham's Bulldog26 Nov 2024 18:35 UTC

22 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

Banding Together to Ban Octopus Farming

Tessa @ ALI30 Nov 2022 14:14 UTC

119 points

12 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What’s up with the bristlemouth, the most populous fish?

Bentham's Bulldog8 Dec 2024 16:58 UTC

39 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Some information on the use of fish oil in aquaculture

Avi Norowitz31 Mar 2019 22:50 UTC

33 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Aquatic Animal Funding Recommendations

Zoë Sigle 🔹14 Aug 2025 17:17 UTC

61 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Individuation is a Key Challenge in Animal Welfare Technology

Vasco Grilo🔸29 May 2025 17:06 UTC

15 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(optimistsbarn.substack.com)

#205 – The most insane things fish can do (Sébastien Moro on The 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_Hours24 Oct 2024 19:27 UTC

52 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

Will a food carbon tax lead to more animals being slaughtered? A quantitative model

Soemano Zeijlmans3 Jan 2025 21:21 UTC

152 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

Early Bird Fee for ICARE’s Contemporary Issues in Animal Rights Law (CIARL) Live Course Ends 15 Sept!

Marine Lercier13 Sep 2025 9:03 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Seeking Input for Applying Satellite Tech to Reduce Farmed Fish Suffering

haven10 Jul 2024 18:43 UTC

27 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Seeking Researchers to Investigate Farmed Fish Stunning in India

haven8 Oct 2024 10:03 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.fishwelfareinitiative.org)

Monthly Spotlight: Welfare Footprint Institute

Animal Charity Evaluators1 Oct 2025 16:49 UTC

21 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

35-150 billion fish are raised in captivity to be released into the wild every year

saulius2 Apr 2019 13:16 UTC

98 points

16 comments36 min readEA link

Fish used as live bait by recreational fishermen

saulius8 Aug 2018 20:56 UTC

65 points

20 comments6 min readEA link

Why You Should Build Your Own EA Internship Abroad

Annika Burman 🔸22 Jul 2025 20:33 UTC

177 points

10 comments5 min readEA link

Beliefs About Chickens & Fish And Their Relationship To Animal-Positive Behaviors

Casey Riordan11 Nov 2020 17:04 UTC

11 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

Neuron Count-Based Measures May Currently Underweight Suffering in Farmed Fish

MHR🔸13 Dec 2022 20:05 UTC

69 points

9 comments6 min readEA link

Why I Think All The Species Of Significantly Debated Consciousness Are Conscious And Suffer Intensely

Bentham's Bulldog20 Nov 2024 16:11 UTC

65 points

27 comments33 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Initiative’s 2024 in Review

haven28 Jan 2025 21:02 UTC

55 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

Unexpected Global Response to WFF Study on Trout Slaughter and Welfare Impact

jan pavuk helping16 Jul 2025 21:16 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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