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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
16 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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