APPLIED RESEARCH FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Advancing sustainability and higher welfare practices
within the aquatic foods sector

Advancing sustainability and higher welfare practices
within the aquatic foods sector
Ethical Seafood Research offers a range of research-oriented services in the field of fisheries and aquaculture on a consultancy basis. We believe that taking good care of the animals you raise is common sense.
We can visit any aquatic animal production facility and assess the welfare status of stocked animals as well as current farming practices. We use the latest science to estimate the effect of stressors on the farmed animals.
We are experienced in carrying out both in-field and online surveys to gauge stakeholders on relevant topics around the production and consumption of aquatic animal products. For example, surveying farmers on management practices to identify potential causes of mass mortalities.
We can help you prepare internal reports to inform your organisation’s strategic direction or published reports that can be used for campaigning and lobbying efforts. This can also include research to identify high-impact interventions for improving the welfare of farmed aquatic animals.
Help us create a better world for humans and fishes alike!
We have successfully bid for and completed government contracts including for the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Fisheries & Oceans Canada.
Our founder previously consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme and the European Commission.
We pair up with NGOs working on farmed animal welfare that are focused on land animals and still want to advocate for aquatic animals but don’t have immediate capacity.
We have been funded by philanthropic foundations that are passionate about reducing the suffering of the countless aquatic animals currently used for human consumption.
We work with fishing & fish farming companies that are looking to improve their operational sustainability & welfare practices in order to meet consumer expectations & CSR targets.
We frequently take on work from other consultancies in the fisheries and aquaculture space that have won large projects but are struggling to meet deadlines for deliverables.
This study reviews China’s marine fisheries and aquaculture sectors with an emphasis on the operations of its distant water fleet.
The analysis centres on the state subsidies these sectors receive, their illegal, unreported and unregulated catches and the challenges they represent to competing fleets such as the EU.
Wild capture fisheries inflict a lot of suffering onto both the target and non-target animals in question.
This report introduces the concept of an animal welfare-based approach to capture fisheries and urges its adoption by the fishing industry, arguing that humane fisheries are both possible and desirable.
This is a call for the GFCM Compliance Committee to increase transparency and effectively tackle cases of non-compliance and illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.
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