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Study shows consumers value animal welfare over sustainability when buying meat and dairy
Consumers value animal welfare over sustainability, highlighting the need for labeling strategies to target consumer preferences.
Health & Welfare
Ace Aquatec and the Shrimp Welfare Project working together to improve shrimp welfare through humane stunning methods.
Intelligence
Consumers value animal welfare over sustainability, highlighting the need for labeling strategies to target consumer preferences.
Health & Welfare
The UK-based Shrimp Welfare Project is offering free electrical stunners to qualifying producers as part of new shrimp welfare initiative.
Health & Welfare
The company's Prawn Humane Stunner Universal can stun prawns unconscious in less than one second, improving animal welfare in aquaculture.
Health & Welfare
Aquna Sustainable Murray Cod is installing an in-water electrical stunner to enhance animal welfare for its farmed fish.
Health & Welfare
One of the world's largest farmed tilapia producers will introduce in-water controlled stunning at its processing facilities to improve fish welfare.
Innovation & Investment
Ace Aquatec of Scotland returns as a finalist for the Global Aquaculture Innovation Award with a seal-deterrent technology for fish farmers.
Innovation & Investment
Global Aquaculture Innovation Award finalist Ace Aquatec’s Humane Stunner Universal easily renders fish unconscious for a more humane slaughter process.
Health & Welfare
Study evaluated effects of stunning methods (thermal shock and electric shock) on the welfare of three crustacean species, including Pacific white shrimp.
Health & Welfare
There’s an opportunity to expand the U.S. market for farmed seafood if the aquaculture industry were to more widely adopt humane production practices, according to a study by Changing Tastes and Datassential.
Responsibility
Despite the positive outputs of the global salmon farming business it remains a target for sharp criticism. In Scotland, the industry’s battle against misleading and inaccurate information reaches a new level.
Health & Welfare
El bienestar animal en las granjas de peces abarca la salud, la dieta, la calidad del agua, la cría, el manejo y el beneficiamiento. Añada el enriquecimiento del ambiente a la lista, como una compañía de salmón escocés, que mantiene sus peces sanos manteniéndolos ocupados.
Health & Welfare
Animal welfare on fish farms encompasses health, diet, water quality, husbandry, handling and slaughter. Add environment enrichment to the list, like a Scottish salmon company, which keeps its fish healthy by keeping them busy.
Health & Welfare
At this year’s GOAL conference in Guangzhou, China, leading animal welfare and aquatic animal disease experts will share knowledge about how producers can gird their operations. EMS, EHP, streptococcosis and sea lice will be addressed, as will the latest in area management.
Health & Welfare
Removing the eyestalk of broodstock female shrimp aided in the explosive growth of commercial-scale aquaculture. An undertaking by a Central American shrimp farmer has shown that producing shrimp without ablation can ease animal welfare worries without the feared drop in production.
Health & Welfare
Quantification of fish behavior is complex and depends on the experimental setup and biomarkers applied. A simple method was tested to quantify locomotor behavior to evaluate the effects of simulated water treatment scenarios using peracetic acid.