November was an exciting month for FWI: we visited a salmon farm in Norway (see notes below), gave talks in Norway and New York City, attended the Fish Welfare Mini Symposium in Belgium, and almost finished accepting applicants for our Research Analyst position. Haven also moved back from London to the US, making Fish Welfare Initiative officially a remote organization.
FWI is also participating in EA Giving Tuesday - see more below.
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Research Updates
We just launched our research page, which we hope will be a useful resource for others working on fish welfare. There, we've listed a couple of things:
- Our research, published and unpublished
- External research that we've found particularly helpful
- Other resources, namely books, websites, and conferences
We recently finished an overview report on the welfare issues in aquaculture and fisheries. It also discusses whether we should prioritize welfare improvements for farmed fish or wild-caught fish:
In December, we're wrapping up our research on priority countries for fish advocacy, and starting work on priority species.
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Support FWI this Giving Tuesday
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FWI Visits a Norwegian Salmon Farm
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As Norway accounts for nearly half of all aquaculture production in Europe, we traveled to Norway to visit an Atlantic Salmon farm. One of the biggest welfare concerns we noted was the mass use of cleaner fish (about fifty thousand in this farm), which are used to remove sea lice from the salmon. Cleaner fish are highly sensitive to conditions and thus face high mortality rates and high rates of infections. We did a write-up of this visit, and are happy to share it upon request.
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Other News in Fish Welfare
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Let us know what you think by replying to this email. As always, thanks for all you do to make this world more awesome.
Cheers,
Haven and Tom, Fish Welfare Initiative Co-Founders
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