ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022
A Kettle of Fish: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Fish Sentience.
Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Twenty-four-hour post-anaesthetic behavioural effects of menthol and thymol compared to conventional anaesthetics in zebrafish.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2026Article
- The Expanding Role of Artificial Intelligence in Companion Animal Care: A Systematic Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Evaluation of thymol application for anaesthesia of adult zebrafish.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2025Article
- Menthol as a sustainable alternative anaesthetic for adult zebrafish (Danio rerio).Veterinary research communications · 2025Article
- Chains of Commerce: A Comprehensive Review of Animal Welfare Impacts in the International Wildlife Trade.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- The welfare of farmed Nile tilapia: a review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- The Sixth Mass Extinction and Amphibian Species Sustainability Through Reproduction and Advanced Biotechnologies, Biobanking of Germplasm and Somatic Cells, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Development of Welfare Protocols at Slaughter in Farmed Fish.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- What is it like to be a lizard? Directed attention and the flow of sensory experience in lizards and birds.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Near and Dear? If animal welfare concepts do not apply to species at a great phylogenetic distance from humans, what concepts might serve as alternatives?Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Review
- Improving welfare assessment in aquaculture.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- The value of regulating stocking densities in aquaculture must not be dismissed: a reply to Saraiva et al. 2022.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Farmed fish welfare during slaughter in Italy: survey on stunning and killing methods and indicators of unconsciousness.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
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Abstract
Fish are traded, caught, farmed, and killed in their trillions every year around the world, yet their welfare is often neglected and their sentience regularly disregarded. In this review, we have sought to (1) catalogue the extent to which fish sentience has featured over the past 31 years in the scientific literature and (2) discuss the importance of fish sentience in relation to their commercial uses. We searched the journal database Science Direct using 42 keywords that describe traits or elements of sentience to find articles that were referring to or exploring fish sentience. Our review returned 470 results for fish sentience in 142 different species and subspecies of fish, and featured 19 different sentience keywords. The top four keywords were; 'stress' (psychological) (
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