Fish Welfare Initiative November Updates

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Fish Welfare Initiative

We're hiring!

To improve our research process, we are currently hiring for a Research Analyst or Animal Welfare Specialist. Know anyone who may be interested? Feel free to reach out with questions.

FWI Presents at EAG London and Charity Entrepreneurship Demo Day

Haven's talk at the Charity Entrepreneurship Demo Day

You can read roughly the same content as this talk in our blog post: Introducing Fish Welfare Initiative.

Research Updates

This month we are working on short reports to answer the following:

Which species potentially suffer the most in aquaculture?
Which countries have the greatest potential for welfare improvements?
What are the reasons in favor of working on either wild-caught or farmed fish?

We aim to publish finished versions of the latter two on our website (with more detailed species reports coming in the future). We are generally happy to share unpolished versions of our reports early upon request.

Other News in Fish Welfare

Tesco and Auchan, two supermarket chains, have stopped selling live carp in Poland in response to pressure from animal advocacy groups.
Compassion Over Killing releases an investigation into a US salmon farm, showing poor conditions.
EAST launches campaign to end fish binding in Taiwan.
Walmart pledges to end the sale of live fish in the US.
Academics make the case against octopus farming (from earlier this year).
Study finds that cleaner fish can remember traumatic events 11 months later.
Victoria Braithwaite, pioneering fish researcher and author of Do Fish Feel Pain?, has passed away.
Fish Welfare Mini Symposium to be held in Belgium on November 29.

Let us know what you think by replying to this email. As always, thanks for all you to do to make this world more awesome.

Cheers,
Haven and Tom, Fish Welfare Initiative Co-Founders

P.S. Haven will be in New York City on November 24-25. If you're there and interested in fish welfare, let's meet up!

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