Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from
wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture …

The unprecedented growth of aquaculture involves well-documented environmental and
public-health costs, but less is understood about global animal welfare risks. Integrating data …

Structural environmental enrichment, that is, a deliberate addition of physical complexity to
the rearing environment, is sometimes utilized to reduce the expression of the undesirable …

Previous reviews of stress, and the stress hormone cortisol, in fish have focussed on
physiology, due to interest in impacts on aquaculture production. Here, we discuss cortisol in …

We review studies claiming that fish feel pain and find deficiencies in the methods used for
pain identification, particularly for distinguishing unconscious detection of injurious stimuli …

There is a long history of the involvement of animals for tourism purposes in circuses, zoos,
fairs, ecotourism and wildlife tourism, using animals as the prime focus of their experience …

The human tendency to draw boundaries is pervasive. The 'moral circle'is the boundary
drawn around those entities in the world deemed worthy of moral consideration. Three …

Given a growing global human population and high pressures on resources, interest in
insects as a source of protein for human food (entomophagy) and for animal feed is growing …

Animal welfare science and ecology are both generally concerned with the lives of animals,
however they differ in their objectives and scope; the former studies the welfare of animals …

Debates around fishes' ability to feel pain concern sentience: do reactions to tissue damage
indicate evaluative consciousness (conscious affect), or mere nociception? Thanks to …