Fish Ethology and Welfare
Short Title
FishEthoGroup
Description
We conduct research on ethology and welfare of aquatic animals. Other activities include developing an open-access database on the welfare of farmed fish, providing consultancy services for fish farms and organizing training actions at scientific and industry levels.
Coordinator
Organiza
Selected Publications
Welfare Of Cultured And Experimental Fishes. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI; 2019. doi:10.3390/books978-3-03921-711-3
. Welfare of cage cultured fish under climate change. In: Climate Change On Diseases And Disorders Of Finfish In Cage Culture, 3Rd Edition. 3rdrd ed. Climate Change on Diseases and Disorders of Finfish in Cage Culture, 3rd edition. CABI; 2023.
. Farming fish. In: Routledge Handbook Of Animal Welfare. Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare. Taylor and Francis; 2022.
. Environmental enrichment in fish aquaculture: a review of fundamental and practical aspects. Reviews in Aquaculture. 2021. doi:10.1111/raq.12620
. Domestication and Welfare in Farmed Fish. In: Animal Domestication. Animal Domestication. ; 2018. doi:10.5772/intechopen.77251
. A Global Assessment of Welfare in Farmed Fishes: The Fishethobase. Fishes. 2019. doi:10.3390/fishes4020030
. Effects of structural environmental enrichment on welfare of juvenile seabream (Sparus aurata). Aquaculture Reports. 2019;15. doi:10.1016/j.aqrep.2019.100224
Enriched environments enhance cognition, exploratory behaviour and brain physiological functions of Sparus aurata. Scientific Reports. 2020;10(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-68306-6
All Publications
Type of Event
Scientific Gathering
fair-fish and its partners CCMAR, Fishethogroup Association, Friend of the Sea, and Demos proudly present the 5 th edition of the Summer Shoal. The topic of "fish welfare" is highly relevant. This is...
September 12, 2023 to September 15, 2023
at
Ria Formosa
Type of Event
Scientific Gathering
After a forced halt in the last two years, 2022 marks the return of the pioneer event gathering stakeholders in constructive dialogue around the welfare of fish. The Fishethogroup, fair-fish...
June 28, 2022 to July 1, 2022
at
Ria Formosa
Type of Event
Seminar
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez will talk about environmental enrichment that is considered a potential tool to improve or promote fish welfare in captive animals.
November 14, 2019
at
Anfiteatro B | Complexo Pedagógico I Gambelas Campus
Type of Event
Scientific Gathering
The 3rd Summer Shoal on Fish Ethology and Welfare aims to a meeting point of stakeholders in the "fish world", and once more integrate perspectives often perceived as antagonistic, in order to...
September 10, 2019 to September 13, 2019
at
Ria Formosa
Type of Event
Seminar
Next week, November 8nd, at 1:30 pm on Amph. 1.8 (bd8).
November 8, 2017
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Anf.1.8 ( bd 8) - Gambelas Campus UAlg
News
João Saraiva is going to re-join CCMAR, leading a new research group focused in Ethology and Welfare. Welcome back João!
RESEARCH TREND ALERT: Now that eco-concerns have pushed the agenda towards sustainable aquaculture, it is time to address welfare in fish farming.
CCMAR researcher, João Saraiva, represented his work at European Maritime Day 2019.
The third edition of the Summer Shoal, dedicate to fish welfare, was organized for the first time in Portugal and was a huge success.
Fish Ethology and Welfare group, from the Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) organized last November a unique fish welfare course, attended by some renowned international researchers in this area.
A new book entitled “Welfare of Cultured and Experimental Fishes” was recently edited by João L. Saraiva and Pablo Arechavala-Lopez, researchers from the Center for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) . Fish welfare is a recent field , but...