Blog | Fish Welfare Initiative

Jan 29
8 min

Our 2020 Year in Review

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

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Thomas Billington

Jan 27
3 min

Our Welfare Improvements in India

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

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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch

Jan 22
4 min

Human Health Lies in the Fins of Fish

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.

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Thomas Billington

Dec 4, 2020
8 min

Strategy Update: Our Main Initiative

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

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Emotions in fish - what is missing for proper welfare legislation?

Marco Cerqueira

Nov 30, 2020
10 min

Emotions in fish - what is missing for proper welfare legislation?

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

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How Much Do People in Asian Countries Care About Fish Welfare?

Karina Benitez Lin

Nov 20, 2020
3 min

How Much Do People in Asian Countries Care About Fish Welfare?

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

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A Grieving Mother and the Perils of Pacific Northwest Salmon Hatcheries

Margaux Cudaback

Aug 26, 2020
5 min

A Grieving Mother and the Perils of Pacific Northwest Salmon Hatcheries

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

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Climate Change, Aquaculture, and Fish Welfare

Jennifer-Justine Kirsch

Aug 18, 2020
6 min

Climate Change, Aquaculture, and Fish Welfare

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

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Haven King-Nobles

Jul 8, 2020
3 min

Theory of Change

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

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Haven King-Nobles

Jul 8, 2020
2 min

All of Our Work is a Pilot Program

We view all of our work as a pilot.

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Collaboration between Fish Welfare Initiative and Aquatic Life Institute

Haven King-Nobles

Jun 8, 2020
2 min

Collaboration between Fish Welfare Initiative and Aquatic Life Institute

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...

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We visited wet markets in three different countries. Here’s what we saw.

Sophia Babb

May 1, 2020
4 min

We visited wet markets in three different countries. Here’s what we saw.

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

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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch

Apr 20, 2020
15 min

Fish Groups Utilized by Humans

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

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Haven King-Nobles

Apr 6, 2020
2 min

Takeaways from FWI's Hiring Process

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

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Sophia Babb

Apr 3, 2020
3 min

Do fish feel pain?

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.

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Haven King-Nobles

Mar 14, 2020
3 min

New Strategy Updates

FWI has been in operation for 8 months. This is how our plans have evolved.

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Haven King-Nobles

Oct 18, 2019
5 min

Introducing Fish Welfare Initiative

The following is cross-posted on the EA Forum. We’re excited to announce the launch of Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI), a new organization...

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Haven King-Nobles

Aug 23, 2019
6 min

Why focus on fish?

With all the animal suffering going on in the world, why should we work on fish?

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Our 2020 Year in Review

Our Welfare Improvements in India

Human Health Lies in the Fins of Fish

Strategy Update: Our Main Initiative

Emotions in fish - what is missing for proper welfare legislation?

How Much Do People in Asian Countries Care About Fish Welfare?

A Grieving Mother and the Perils of Pacific Northwest Salmon Hatcheries

Climate Change, Aquaculture, and Fish Welfare

Theory of Change

All of Our Work is a Pilot Program

Collaboration between Fish Welfare Initiative and Aquatic Life Institute

We visited wet markets in three different countries. Here’s what we saw.

Fish Groups Utilized by Humans

Takeaways from FWI's Hiring Process

Do fish feel pain?

New Strategy Updates

Introducing Fish Welfare Initiative

Why focus on fish?

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