Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans
Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans
There is increasing recognition that the welfare needs of cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans are important. Current commercial practices involving these animals include a range of potential threats to their welfare, such as conditions of farming, capture, transport, and slaughter. This article draws from and updates our 2021 review for the UK government, recommending a range of relatively simple and impactful changes that could benefit welfare while highlighting important research gaps that should be prioritised to facilitate the drafting of guidelines for best-practice.
animal welfare, aquaculture, cephalopod mollusc, decapod crustacean, sentience, slaughter, stunning
Browning, Heather
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Burn, Charlotte
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Schnell, Alexandra K.
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Crump, Andrew
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Birch, Jonathan
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2025
Browning, Heather
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Burn, Charlotte
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Schnell, Alexandra K.
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Crump, Andrew
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Birch, Jonathan
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Browning, Heather, Burn, Charlotte, Schnell, Alexandra K., Crump, Andrew and Birch, Jonathan
(2025)
Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans.
Animal Welfare, 34, [e24].
(doi:10.1017/awf.2025.25).
Abstract
There is increasing recognition that the welfare needs of cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans are important. Current commercial practices involving these animals include a range of potential threats to their welfare, such as conditions of farming, capture, transport, and slaughter. This article draws from and updates our 2021 review for the UK government, recommending a range of relatively simple and impactful changes that could benefit welfare while highlighting important research gaps that should be prioritised to facilitate the drafting of guidelines for best-practice.
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 March 2025
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 April 2025
Published date: 2025
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animal welfare, aquaculture, cephalopod mollusc, decapod crustacean, sentience, slaughter, stunning
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/500488
ISSN: 0962-7286
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Andrew Crump
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