Environmental enrichment (EE) can improve the welfare of captive fish. Its objective is to
provide new sensorial and motor stimulation in order to help meet their behavioural …

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

Fish social behavior can be affected by artificial environments, particularly by factors that act
upon species that show aggressive behavior to set social rank hierarchy. Although …

Traditional animal welfare paradigms have focused on maintaining physical health and
mitigating negative impacts to wellbeing. Recently, however, the field has increasingly …

Some common practices in aquaculture, ornamental trade and fish facilities may disturb the
behavioural repertoire of fish and its natural adaptive value, reducing welfare and impairing …

Several studies have reported the neurophysiological and behavioural mechanisms that
enable fish to experience several types of affective states, such as fear, pain and joy. This is …

Simple Summary Body tactile stimulation, such as human massage therapy, is a way to
relieve stress in humans and other animals, therefore it could improve animal health and …

Fish passage structures have been constructed to facilitate fish movement past barriers,
though the effectiveness of passage structures is highly variable. Designing fish passage …

Assessing fish preferences for resources may be an interesting approach to select
environmental enrichments to improve their welfare. However, different operational …

Shelters are frequently used for fish rearing to improve welfare conditions. In this study,
whether Nile tilapia prefers specific shelter colors was evaluated. Thus, fish preference for …