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Here we post organizational updates, research, and more. You can scroll down to view our posts sorted by when they were posted, or click below on the tags that most interest you:
Portugal and Responsible Aquaculture: Our work with EPPO to improve fish welfare
Over May and June, Fish Welfare Initiative had the opportunity to visit the Portuguese Aquaculture Experimental Station (EPPO, Olhão) to...
Marco Cerqueira
Jul 29, 20218 min read
Why We're Ending Our Pilot Study Early
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...
Thomas Billington
Jul 28, 20217 min read
Taking Pain Off the Table? - South Americans reflect on Fish Welfare
The following post was written by a Fish Welfare Initiative volunteer, Will Colin-Diamond. He recently graduated from UC San Diego where...
Will Colin-Diamond
Jun 18, 20217 min read
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.
Chiawen Chiang
Apr 28, 20212 min read
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...
Haven King-Nobles
Jan 29, 20219 min read
Our Welfare Improvements in India
This post discusses the fish welfare improvements we are helping farmers implement in India.
Thomas Billington
Jan 27, 20213 min read
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.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jan 22, 20214 min read
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...
Thomas Billington
Dec 4, 20208 min read
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.
Marco Cerqueira
Nov 30, 202011 min read
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...
Karina Benitez Lin
Nov 20, 20203 min read
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...
Margaux Cudaback
Aug 26, 20205 min read
Climate Change, Aquaculture, and Fish Welfare
Addressing welfare today can increase the resilience of farmed fish to climate change.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Aug 18, 20206 min read
Theory of Change
Given the myriad of welfare issues fish endure in aquaculture, as well as the potential for improved fish welfare to support...
Haven King-Nobles
Jul 8, 20203 min read
All of Our Work is a Pilot Program
We view all of our work as a pilot.
Haven King-Nobles
Jul 8, 20202 min read
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...
Haven King-Nobles
Jun 8, 20202 min read
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.
Sophia Babb
May 1, 20204 min read
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.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Apr 20, 202016 min read
Takeaways from FWI's Hiring Process
We recently completed our first hiring process. This is how we did it, and what we found.
Haven King-Nobles
Apr 6, 20202 min read
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.
Sophia Babb
Apr 3, 20203 min read
New Strategy Updates
FWI has been in operation for 8 months. This is how our plans have evolved.
Haven King-Nobles
Mar 14, 20203 min read
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