Karthik Pulugurtha
Announcing the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture
We are excited to announce the launch of the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture (ARA) – a first-of-its-kind collective of farmers and...
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Chiawen Chiang
- Apr 28, 2021
- 2 min
Lessons Learned from Our Farmer Survey in Vietnam
We attempted to survey 41 fish producers in Vietnam and got zero responses. Here’s what we learned.
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Haven King-Nobles
- Jan 29, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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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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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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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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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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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Haven King-Nobles
- Jun 8, 2020
- 2 min
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- 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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- 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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