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 …

Salmon may sense and respond to a range of environmental variables within sea-cages,
including light, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, water currents and certain chemical …

Reproducible science requires transparent reporting. The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal
Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) were originally developed in 2010 to improve …

Improving the reproducibility of biomedical research is a major challenge. Transparent and
accurate reporting is vital to this process; it allows readers to assess the reliability of the …

This brief review focuses on health and biological function as cornerstones of fish welfare.
From the function-based point of view, good welfare is reflected in the ability of the animal to …

As global aquaculture fish production continues to expand, an improved understanding of
how environmental factors interact in fish health and production is needed. Significant …

A semantic model for overall welfare assessment of Atlantic salmon reared in sea cages is
presented. The model, called SWIM 1.0, is designed to enable fish farmers to make a formal …

We reviewed 199 published data sets (21 species) to assess the relative frequency of
various density‐dependent processes in salmonids. We examined studies for the presence …

The intensive aquaculture of salmonids is a relatively young discipline within the animal
husbandry sector. It differs to terrestrial livestock farming in one obvious and fundamental …

It is increasingly common to rear Atlantic salmon smolts for longer periods in recirculating
aquaculture systems (RAS) before transfer to sea cages. The conditions for this part of the …