Fish welfare

Please also see general guidance on Humane Endpoints, Health monitoring and disease prevention, and Humane killing.
Housing and welfare of zebrafish

• Bukhari et al. (2024): The behavior and welfare of neglected species: some examples from fish and mammals (lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus)
• Should we care about the welfare of fishes? Webinar by Lynne Sneddon (16.9.21)
• Fishwell (welfare indicators for salmon and rainbow trout) English-language version
• Ellis T & Katsiadaki I (2020): Clarification of early end-points for refinement of animal experiments, with specific reference to fish
• Welfare of Cultured and Experimental Fishes (special issue of Fishes in 2019)
• Welfare of Fish - No Longer the Elephant in the Room
• Ethical considerations in fish research
• Guidelines for health and welfare monitoring of fish used in research
• Positive Welfare for Fishes: Rationale and Areas for Future Study
• A Global Assessment of Welfare in Farmed Fishes: the FishEthoBase
• Assessing fish welfare in research and aquaculture, focus on European directives (Toni et al., 2019)
• Long-term memory retention in a wild fish species Labroides dimidiatus eleven months after an aversive event (Triki & Bshary, 2019)
• Behavioural indicators of welfare in farmed fish (Martins et al., 2012)
• On-farm evaluation of the Salmon Welfare Index Model (SWIM 1.0): theoretical and practical considerations (SWIM website)
• Video-based identification of surrogate endpoints in experimental bacterial infections of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
• Huntingford et al. 2006 "Current issues in fish welfare"
• The EU-WEALTH project aims to gain an in-depth understanding of factors affecting welfare and health of farmed fish 
• The EU-ETHIQUAL project aimed to examine how husbandry practice, aquacultural systems and pre-slaughter conditions contribute to the ethical quality of finfish seafood
• The EU Welfish (Welfare biomarker evaluation) project, a 3-year study (start 2020). The project has published a simple video explaining how welfare assessment of aquaculture fish can be performed.
• COST Action 867 "Welfare of fish in European Aquaculture" 
• Three Rs Approaches in the Production and Quality Control of Fish Vaccines
• New technology to detect feeding and breathing activities of fish - This compact device can be attached to the fish to measure pressure changes in the oral cavity and the stress level which may be caused by surrounding environmental parameters.
• Wolffrom T (2005) Farmed fish and welfare EU-report
• Gornati R et al. (2005) Molecular biology and fish welfare: A winning combination. Aquaculture International 13, 51-55
• Mejdell C (2005) Ethics: different attitudes to fish welfare depending upon the situation? Meeting proceeding
• Turnbull et al 2005, Stocking density and welfare of cage farmed Atlantic salmon: application of a multivariate analysis
• Report on the welfare of farmed fish (1996), Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWA), UK
• Fiskevelferdsforum (Veterinærinstituttet og Havforskningsinstituttet)
• "Forskningsbehov innen dyrevelferd i Norge". This Norwegian report provides an introduction to definitions of fish welfare and an overview of the current knowledge. It was financed by the Norwegian Research Council and points out research needs in this field.
• "Dyrevelferd i akvatisk dyrehold - herunder fremtidens dyrehold".   This Norwegian report focuses on possibilities for monitoring of fish welfare in aquaculture.
• Suter & Huntingford 2002, Eye colour in juvenile Atlantic salmon: effects of social status, aggression and foraging success
• Brattelid T (1999) Kap. 4 Stress og biorytmer, Kompendium i forsøksdyrlære for fiskeforskere (Norwegian-language compendium from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science)
• Reithe S & Aarset B (1999) Research on animal welfare in Norwegian fish farming, Foundation for research in Economics and Business Administration, SNF-report No. 33. (ISBN 82-7296-983-1)
• Bonga SEW (1997) The Stress Response in fish. Physiological reviews 77, 591-625
• Iwama GK, Pickering AD, Sumpter JP & Schreck CB (1997) Fish stress and health in aquaculture. Cambridge University Press