Fish welfare /
Fish have the same stress response and powers of nociception as mammals. Their behavioural responses to a variety of situations suggest a considerable ability for higher level neural processing - a level of consciousness equivalent perhaps to that attributed to mammals. Each chapter of this book has...
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Oxford ; Ames, Iowa :
Blackwell Pub.,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Edward J. Branson and Peter J. Southgate
- pt. I. General Fish Welfare
- Ch. 1. What is Animal Welfare? / Alistair B. Lawrence
- Ch. 2. Welfare and Fish / Felicity A. Huntingford and Sunil Kadri
- Ch. 3. Stress Response in Fish
- Mechanisms, Effects and Measurement / Thomas G. Pottinger
- Ch. 4. Pain and Fear in Fish / Paul J. Ashley and Lynne U. Sneddon
- Ch. 5. Can Fish Suffer? / Victoria A. Braithwaite and Philip Boulcott
- Ch. 6. Welfare Legislation Applying to Farmed Fish in the UK / Andrew Voas
- pt. II. Aquaculture and Fish Welfare
- Ch. 7. Fish Farmer's Perspective of Welfare / Nick Read
- Ch. 8. Stocking Density and the Welfare of Farmed Salmonids / James F. Turnbull, Ben P. North, Tim Ellis, Colin E. Adams, James Bron, Craig M. MacIntyre and Felicity A. Huntingford
- Ch. 9. Fin Erosion in Farmed Fish / Tim Ellis, Birgit Oidtmann, Sophie St.-Hilaire, James F. Turnbull, Ben P. North, Craig M. MacIntyre, John Nikolaidis, Imogen Hoyle, Steve C. Kestin and Toby G. Knowles
- Ch. 10. Influences of Water Quality on the Welfare of Farmed Rainbow Trout: a Review / Craig M. MacIntyre, Tim Ellis, Ben P. North and James F. Turnbull
- Ch. 11. Welfare of Fish During Transport / Peter J. Southgate
- Ch. 12. Disease and Medicines
- the Welfare Implications / Tony Wall
- Ch. 13. Welfare and Deformities in Fish / Edward J. Branson and Tom Turnbull
- Ch. 14. Welfare of Fish at Harvest / David H.F. Robb
- Ch. 15. Use of Stakeholder Focus Groups to Identify Indicators for the On-farm Assessment of Trout Welfare / Ben P. North, Tim Ellis, James Bron, Toby G. Knowles and James F. Turnbull
- pt. III. Ornamental Fish and Welfare
- Ch. 16. Welfare of Ornamental Fish / Chris Walster.