Haven King-Nobles
Announcing FWI’s New Stunning Initiative in India
We are launching a multi-phase project aimed at introducing and scaling pre-slaughter stunning for farmed fishes in India.
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Abhishek Pandey
Oct 13 min
Project Update: DVARA Partnership
In this post, we share our progress and future plans for our partnership project with DVARA.
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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jul 173 min
The ARA Is Expanding to a New Region
Our farm program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture is adding farmers in a new region to expand our reach and help more fishes.
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Paul Monaghan
Jul 105 min
Third R&D Study of 2024: Dissolved Oxygen Tolerance Assessment
This post discusses our newly-launched field study to assess what levels of dissolved oxygen and ammonia Indian major carps can tolerate.
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Paul Monaghan
Jun 294 min
Second R&D Study of 2024: Feed Fortification
We recently launched a new study to assess the impact and viability of feed fortification as a welfare intervention.
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Paul Monaghan
Jun 194 min
Satellite Imagery Study Findings
In February, we conducted a study to evaluate the use of satellite imagery to predict water quality remotely. This post shares our findings.
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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jun 164 min
ARA Program Updates: Adjusted Visit Frequency, Improved Measurement System, and Tentative Oxygen Findings
We have improved essential processes in our farmer program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture.
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Abhishek Pandey
Jun 144 min
Livelihood Organizations as a Scaling Mechanism and our Ongoing Project with DVARA
This post discusses a) the scaling potential of collaborating with livelihood organizations in India, and b) FWI's project with DVARA.
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Thomas Billington
Apr 125 min
Results from our Latest Culture Surveys (April 2023 – January 2024)
This post shares the results from FWI's culture surveys conducted in April 2023, July 2023, and January 2024.
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Paul Monaghan
Mar 265 min
Overview of our 2024 R&D Studies
This post discusses Fish Welfare Initiative's planned R&D studies for improving fish welfare in India in 2024.
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Paul Monaghan
Feb 194 min
First R&D Study of 2024: Validating Satellite Imagery to Detect Poor Water Quality
FWI is launching a study to assess the accuracy and reliability of satellite imagery to remotely detect water quality issues.
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Haven King-Nobles
Jan 257 min
Fish Welfare Initiative's 2023 in Review
This post discusses our key outcomes and challenges from 2023.
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Haven King-Nobles
Jan 172 min
When Things Go Wrong: Addressing a Flaw in our Stocking Density Monitoring
This short post discusses how we identified and corrected an issue in our stocking density monitoring.
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Thomas Billington
Jan 173 min
Breathing Underwater: The Most Important Findings From Our Dissolved Oxygen Study
Fish Welfare Initiative recently conducted a study where we observed six fish farming ponds with known dissolved oxygen (DO) issues. The...
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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jan 102 min
Over 100 Farms Committed to Fish Welfare
We now have over 100 fish farms actively engaging with us to improve the welfare of their fishes!
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Paul Monaghan
Dec 21, 20235 min
Our 2024 Research & Development Plans for India
This post discusses the formation of FWI's R&D Department, as well as our high-level research plans for 2024.
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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Dec 7, 20232 min
Updates on Our Work In China
This blog post discusses the current status of our work in China.
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Haven King-Nobles
Nov 27, 20237 min
Strategy Update: Broadening Our Research Mandate in India
In 2024, FWI will research alternative interventions and more innovative in-field strategies to help farmed fishes. Read more.
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Haven King-Nobles
Nov 18, 20232 min
Our Updated Water Quality Data Since 2021
We publish water quality and welfare data from ~100 farms, from the program’s inception in June 2021 up until June 2023.
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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jul 3, 20234 min
Our Vision for Helping Hundreds of Millions of Fishes
Our farmer work has helped over 1 million fishes and we want to help more. This blog post discusses how we envision scaling our program.
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