Exploring the role of anaesthesia and analgesia as a key refinement and practical approaches to improve welfare for fishes in research.

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There is an increasing interest in the capture and welfare of wild caught fish. Despite this, the methods used to catch and kill fish in commercial fi…

As zebrafish programs continue to grow in scale and complexity, facilities are facing new challenges—and new opportunities. The Zebrafish Husbandry Summit

Att avliva kycklingar och kor utan smärtlindring är olagligt, men för skaldjur saknas motsvarande regelverk. Nu efterlyser forskare vid Göteborgs universitet mer skonsamma metoder, om …

A consistent concern of conservation efforts is that relatively poor local communities often bear a high cost for the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity with high ecological significance. In th...

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In The Edge of Sentience, Jonathan Birch (2024) provides a thought-provoking synthesis of current perspectives on animal (and artificial) sentience. He addresses the question from conceptual, ethical,...

The establishment of the INTERNATIONAL AQUATIC ANIMAL WELFARE WORKING GROUP aims to create an international platform for communication and information exchange on aquatic animal welfare research and p...

PhD Project - Passive acoustic monitoring to inform evidence-based policy for coral reefs. PhD (Royal Society Funded) at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com

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There is evidence that decapod crustaceans have the capacity to experience aversive states associated with nociception, highlighting the need for humane treatment. Behavioural and physiological respon...

Vanliga smärtstillande mediciner fungerar också på havskräftor, visar forskning från Göteborgs universitet. Det är ytterligare ett tecken på att skaldjur kan känna smärta och att skonsammare avlivning...

The horses at the Children’s Zoo in Gothenburg don’t mind being pet by children and adults. However, they do get stressed by the noise from an excavator. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg ha...

Lauren Bennett hopes BVA Live delegates will engage with the RSPCA's forthcoming strategy to reinvigorate efforts to tackle harmful conformations and the normalisation of suffering.

Internationally, there are inconsistencies between national, state and territory Codes, Acts and Regulations on the definition of animal and animal use for scientific purposes, particularly for non-in...

Using physiological and behavioral assays, we quantified the effectiveness and appropriateness of six commonly used fish anesthetics on zebrafish embryos. Different anesthetics performed better under...

The majority of fish farmed in aquaculture systems around the world are not stunned during slaughter, exposing them to considerable pain and distress. When stunning methods are applied, there is a lac...

The suffering of water-breathing animals can be invisible to humans—and thus left out of initiatives to improve animal welfare.

We call on DEFRA to pursue collaboration with devolved administrations to monitor and publish a comprehensive annual UK Farmed Salmon Safety & Welfare Report collating data from various regulators and...

Pain killers seem to work on lobsters, so being boiled alive may be just as gruesome as it sounds.

Learn how lobsters treated with aspirin and lidocaine better withstand electric shocks, raising questions about more humane ways to kill them for consumption.