ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022
Looking beyond the Shoal: Fish Welfare as an Individual Attribute.
Article 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 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Regional brain serotonergic activity as an indicator of chronic stress and compromised welfare in fish.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Applying deep learning and the ecological home range concept to document the spatial distribution of Atlantic salmon parr (Salmo salar L.) in experimental tanks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fish Welfare-Related Issues and Their Relevance in Land-Based Olive Flounder (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview.Personality neuroscience · 2024Review
- Ethics in aquaculture: animal welfare and environmental sustainability.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Individuality really matters for fish welfare.The veterinary quarterly · 2023Article
- Fish and chips: Using machine learning to estimate the effects of basal cortisol on fish foraging behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Welfare is an individual attribute. In general, providing captive nonhuman animals with conditions conducive to good welfare is an idea more easily applied when dealing with few individuals. However, this becomes much harder-if not impossible-under farming conditions that may imply high numbers of animals living in large group sizes. Although this is a problem inherent to intensive animal farming, it is possibly best exemplified in fish farming, for these practices often rely on extremely high numbers. In this paper we review evidence supporting the notion that fishes are individuals and fish welfare should thus also be considered at the individual level, examine the current state of welfare assessment in the aquaculture industry, evaluate these practices in light of individualized terrestrial animal welfare assessment methods, and make recommendations regarding research that could lead to a better understanding of how to provide each individual fish with good welfare in captivity.
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