For the first time, aquaculture—the world’s fastest-growing food industry—has surpassed wild capture as humanity's main source of fishes.

As aquaculture grows, fish welfare must grow, too.
Causes of Suffering
While welfare issues vary in type and severity from farm to farm, the broad causes of suffering farmed fishes face include:

Overcrowding

Poor water quality

Ineffective and absent pre-slaughter stunning

Diseases and parasites

Inability to express their natural behaviors

Given salmons’ natural migratory and predatory drives, keeping these animals in sea cages may be fundamentally unsuitable for their welfare. As seen above, salmons may exhibit behaviors such as leaping from the water as they try to remove parasitic sea lice from their bodies. Learn more. Ed Shephard / We Animals
Our Impact
We work to improve the lives of farmed fishes in two main ways:
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