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AQUAWEL Conference Report
Category: Fish Welfare
Year of Publication: 2025

IMPACT REPORT AQUAWEL CONFERENCE 2025

The AQUAWEL Conference 2025 made history as Africa’s first dedicated platform focused exclusively on fish and Aquatic animal welfare. Hosted virtually over two days, the conference convened over 660 participants from 44 countries, including 23 African nations, and brought together experts across aquaculture, fisheries, veterinary services, policy, research, NGOs, and animal welfare.
Year of Publication: 2016

CODE OF PRACTICE FOR FISH AND FISHERY PRODUCTS

The present Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products was developed by the Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products by merging the in- dividual codes and adding new sections. Those codes were primarily of a technological nature, offering general advice on the production, storage and handling of fish and fishery products on board fishing vessels and on shore.
Category: Welfare
Year of Publication: 2020

FISH WELFARE IMPROVEMENTS IN AQUACULTURE

The primary focus of Fish Welfare Initiative’s work is addressing fish welfare in order to minimize the animal suffering associated with the way we rear and handle farmed fish. Therefore, Fish Welfare Initiative aims to use a definition of welfare that is practical, acceptable to most stakeholders, and takes into account the complexities of a fish’s inner state – its individualit
Category: Sustainable Aquaculture
Year of Publication: 2023

Aquaculture production, GHG emission and economic growth in Sub-Sahara Africa

Aquaculture is a major source of protein in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region experiencing rapid population growth, changing lifestyles and preferences, and increased health awareness. However, the industry is still underdeveloped and is of a subsistence nature. Climate change has impacted aquaculture production (AQUAP) in SSA because of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Category: Policy
Year of Publication: 2008

African aquaculture: Realizing the potential

Despite 40 years of research and development, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, aquaculture is struggling to realize its high biophysical potential in Africa. Hampered by ineffective institutional arrangements and donor-driven projects, the substantial gains in desperately needed food security and economic growth predicted by development agencies have generally not been achieved
Category: Fish Welfare
Year of Publication: 2014

Defining and assessing animal pain

The detection and assessment of pain in animals is crucial to improving their welfare in a variety of contexts in which humans are ethically or legally bound to do so. Thus clear standards to judge whether pain is likely to occur in any animal species is vital to inform whether to alleviate pain or to drive the refinement of procedures to reduce invasiveness, thereby minimizing pain

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