Over May and June, Fish Welfare Initiative had the opportunity to visit the Portuguese Aquaculture Experimental Station (EPPO, Olhão) to...

This blog post outlines what we believe is one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made as an organization: launching a pilot study that proved...

The following post was written by a Fish Welfare Initiative volunteer, Will Colin-Diamond. He recently graduated from UC San Diego where...

We are excited to announce the launch of the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture (ARA) – a first-of-its-kind collective of farmers and...

We attempted to survey 41 fish producers in Vietnam and got zero responses. Here’s what we learned.

2020 was Fish Welfare Initiative’s first full year of operations. In it, FWI changed significantly: we shifted from focusing primarily on...

This post discusses the fish welfare improvements we are helping farmers implement in India.

If we want to protect the environment, our health, the fish, and have a good product, we need to take into account the welfare of fish.

Over the past year, Fish Welfare Initiative has conducted farm visits and secondary research to identify the most promising ways to help...

The expression of emotions in fish is quantifiable, and they affect the fish’s reality.

The following post was written by a Fish Welfare Initiative volunteer, Karina Benitez Lin, who is the Corporate Outreach Officer at...

The following post was written by a Fish Welfare Initiative volunteer, Margaux Cudaback, who is an undergraduate studying Environmental...

Addressing welfare today can increase the resilience of farmed fish to climate change.

Given the myriad of welfare issues fish endure in aquaculture, as well as the potential for improved fish welfare to support...

We view all of our work as a pilot.

This blog post is a summary of a post we wrote on the Effective Altruism Forum. See full post here. Written by William Bench, Tom...

Beyond their risks for spreading disease, wet markets also have nonexistent welfare standards for the animals being sold in them.

With roughly 33,600 species of fish worldwide, it comes as no surprise that humans have found numerous ways of utilizing them.

We recently completed our first hiring process. This is how we did it, and what we found.

A common belief is that the biology of a fish is too simple to process pain. But anatomically, fish are not “too simple” to feel pain.