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Fourth Study of 2024: Developing a Welfare Assessment Protocol for Indian Major Carps

Haven King-Nobles

2 days ago3 min read

Fourth Study of 2024: Developing a Welfare Assessment Protocol for Indian Major Carps

This post discusses our development of a protocol to more comprehensively understand the welfare of Indian major carps.

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Announcing FWI’s Innovation Challenge: Remote-Sensing Water Quality with Satellites

Paul Monaghan

Dec 133 min read

Announcing FWI’s Innovation Challenge: Remote-Sensing Water Quality with Satellites

We are launching an Innovation Challenge to develop remote-sensing technology and help us with cost-effectively scaling our programming.

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Announcing FWI’s New Stunning Initiative in India

Haven King-Nobles

Oct 34 min read

Announcing FWI’s New Stunning Initiative in India

We are launching a multi-phase project aimed at introducing and scaling pre-slaughter stunning for farmed fishes in India.

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Third R&D Study of 2024: Dissolved Oxygen Tolerance Assessment

Paul Monaghan

Jul 105 min read

Third R&D Study of 2024: Dissolved Oxygen Tolerance Assessment

This post discusses our newly-launched field study to assess what levels of dissolved oxygen and ammonia Indian major carps can tolerate.

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Second R&D Study of 2024: Feed Fortification

Paul Monaghan

Jun 294 min read

Second R&D Study of 2024: Feed Fortification

We recently launched a new study to assess the impact and viability of feed fortification as a welfare intervention.

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Paul Monaghan

Jun 194 min read

Satellite Imagery Study Findings

In February, we conducted a study to evaluate the use of satellite imagery to predict water quality remotely. This post shares our findings.

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Paul Monaghan

Mar 266 min read

Overview of our 2024 R&D Studies

This post discusses Fish Welfare Initiative's planned R&D studies for improving fish welfare in India in 2024.

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First R&D Study of 2024: Validating Satellite Imagery to Detect Poor Water Quality

Paul Monaghan

Feb 194 min read

First R&D Study of 2024: Validating Satellite Imagery to Detect Poor Water Quality

FWI is launching a study to assess the accuracy and reliability of satellite imagery to remotely detect water quality issues.

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Breathing Underwater: The Most Important Findings From Our Dissolved Oxygen Study

Thomas Billington

Jan 173 min read

Breathing Underwater: The Most Important Findings From Our Dissolved Oxygen Study

Fish Welfare Initiative recently conducted a study where we observed six fish farming ponds with known dissolved oxygen (DO) issues. ...

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Our 2024 Research & Development Plans for India

Paul Monaghan

Dec 21, 20235 min read

Our 2024 Research & Development Plans for India

This post discusses the formation of FWI's R&D Department, as well as our high-level research plans for 2024.

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Results of Our Survey of 505 Fish Farmers in India

Upasana Sarraju

Jun 14, 20235 min read

Results of Our Survey of 505 Fish Farmers in India

Here are our learnings from a large survey of 505 Indian aquaculture farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Prioritizing Fish Species for Our China Work

Lu Chen

Apr 21, 20235 min read

Prioritizing Fish Species for Our China Work

We discuss how and why we helped identify 2 species to prioritize for welfare interventions in China—grass carp and large yellow croaker.

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Results of Our Small-Scale, Supplementary Feeding Test

Thomas Billington

Apr 1, 20237 min read

Results of Our Small-Scale, Supplementary Feeding Test

We share the results of a small-scale test we concluded recently, on the effects of reduced supplementary feeding.

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Announcing Version 2 of our Welfare Standard

Thomas Billington

Jan 1, 20238 min read

Announcing Version 2 of our Welfare Standard

After 12 months of research, we have set Version 2 of our welfare standard. Version 2 focuses on improving oxygen and phytoplankton control.

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Our Upcoming Test for Improving Dissolved Oxygen

Thomas Billington

Jul 28, 20222 min read

Our Upcoming Test for Improving Dissolved Oxygen

This post describes FWI's latest test aimed at improving dissolved oxygen, one of the largest welfare contributors for Indian major carp.

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Thomas Billington

Mar 4, 20225 min read

Assessing Version 1 of our Standard

FWI has been applying Version 1 of our welfare standard for 9 months in India. This post preliminarily assesses Version 1's impact on fish.

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Thomas Billington

Jul 28, 20217 min read

Why We're Ending Our Pilot Study Early

This blog post outlines what we believe is one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made as an organization: launching a pilot study that proved...

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Taking Pain Off the Table? - South Americans reflect on Fish Welfare

Will Colin-Diamond

Jun 18, 20217 min read

Taking Pain Off the Table? - South Americans reflect on Fish Welfare

The following post was written by a Fish Welfare Initiative volunteer, Will Colin-Diamond. He recently graduated from UC San Diego where...

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Lessons Learned from Our Farmer Survey in Vietnam

Chiawen Chiang

Apr 28, 20212 min read

Lessons Learned from Our Farmer Survey in Vietnam

We attempted to survey 41 fish producers in Vietnam and got zero responses. Here’s what we learned.

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Thomas Billington

Jan 27, 20213 min read

Our Welfare Improvements in India

This post discusses the fish welfare improvements we are helping farmers implement in India.

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