Most research on catch-and-release (C&R) in recreational fishing has been conducted from
a disciplinary angle focusing on the biological sciences and the study of hooking mortality …

The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have
included these taxa under welfare regulation in recent years. Regulation of welfare requires …

Many people like eating meat, but most are reluctant to harm things that have minds. The
current three studies show that this dissonance motivates people to deny minds to animals …

This second edition of International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics revises and
expands this groundbreaking study into the question of why the environment is protected in …

Fish welfare issues are increasingly appearing on social and political agendas and have
recently gained prominence in fisheries literature. By focusing on examples from …

Belief in the mental lives of nonhuman animals can have an impact on how we view and
treat them, yet little is known about how and why laypeople attribute emotions to other …

Anthropomorphism has long been considered a cardinal error when describing animals.
Ethicists have feared the consequences of misrepresenting animals in their reasoning …

Animal welfare and stress refer to the subjective experience of the animal, which depends
on its emotional and cognitive capacities to evaluate the situation it is in, to know its body …

Two views dealing with fish welfare in recreational fishing are discussed in an effort to
stimulate the current discourse on the topic. The pragmatic approach asks whether and how …

A widespread assumption in experimental comparative (animal) cognition is that, barring
compelling evidence to the contrary, the default hypothesis should postulate the simplest …