ArticleAnimal welfare (South Mimms, England)2023
Estimating global numbers of farmed fishes killed for food annually from 1990 to 2019.
Article in Animal welfare (South Mimms, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- How mariculture expansion is dewilding the ocean and its inhabitants.Science advances · 2024Pooled it
- Large language models exhibit speciesist bias against animals.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Economic Feasibility of Implementing Stunning for Farmed Fish in the EU: A Multi-Species Assessment.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Quantifying the welfare impact of air asphyxia in rainbow trout slaughter for policy and practice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The welfare of farmed Nile tilapia: a review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Disaggregating animal welfare risks in aquaculture.Science advances · 2024Article
- An unbiased, sustainable, evidence-informed Universal Food Guide: a timely template for national food guides.Nutrition journal · 2024Review
- Development of Welfare Protocols at Slaughter in Farmed Fish.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Estimating global numbers of fishes caught from the wild annually from 2000 to 2019.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
- 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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Abstract
Global farmed finfish production increased from 9 to 56 million tonnes between 1990 and 2019. Although finfishes are now widely recognised as sentient beings, production is still being quantified as biomass rather than number of individuals (in contrast to farmed mammals and birds). Here, we estimate the global number of farmed finfishes slaughtered using FAO aquaculture production tonnages (1990-2019 data) and estimates of individual weight at killing (determined from internet searches at species and country level where possible). We relate these numbers to knowledge on humane slaughter, animal welfare law, and certification schemes. Since 1990, farmed finfish numbers killed annually for food have increased nine-fold, to 124 billion (1.24 × 10
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