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The Aquatic Animal Welfare Research and Practice Seminar: Strengthen Animal Welfare Research and Application to Promote Sustainable Development of the Seafood Industry Open

Zhangying Ye, Lü Chen, Hans van de Vis, Shaojun Liu, Ying Liu , et al. · 2025

Aquatic animal welfare has been gaining increasing attention globally in the last few years. The Aquatic Animal Welfare Research and Practice Seminar was held in Hangzhou, China, from 28th to 29th March 2025. The Seminar gathered leading s…

A modeling framework to meta-analyse discard survival experiments illustrated by Nephrops norvegicus in European demersal trawl fisheries Open

Marie Morfin, Е. A. Savina, H.P. Benoît, Mickaël Teixeira Alves, Amaya Albalat , et al. · 2025

A Modeling Framework to Meta-Analyse Discard Survival Experiments – Nephrops Norvegicus from European Demersal Trawl Fisheries, a Case Study Open

Marie Morfin, Esther Savina, Hugues P. Benoît, Mickael Teixeira Alves, Amaya Albalat , et al. · 2025

Exploiting the “gold of the ocean”: Can live storage solve the paradox of the purse seine fishery for Atlantic bluefin tuna in Norway? Open

Manu Sistiaga, Neil Anders, Jostein Saltskår, Hermann Pettersen, Michael J. Breen , et al. · 2024

Evidence of sampling induced biases in mortality estimates from experiments investigating mortality in fish escaping from towed fishing gears Open

Michael J. Breen, G.I. Sangster, Finbarr G. O’Neill, Rob Kynoch, Emma Jones , et al. · 2024

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.When studying escapes from trawl codends and other selective devices, the most common method of capturing or ‘sampling’ escaping fish is using a codend cover (Figure 1). Th…

Escape Survival and Scale Damage Assessment of Red Mullet (Mullus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758) during Bottom Trawling in the Central Mediterranean Sea Open

Michele Luca Geraci, Giacomo Sardo, Fabio Falsone, Danilo Scannella, Michael J. Breen , et al. · 2023

Stock assessments routinely evaluate the status of commercially harvested species, but seldom account for the possible mortality of released or escaping fish. This study presents a method for estimating the escape survival of the red mulle…

Vitality as a measure of animal welfare during purse seine pumping related crowding of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scrombrus) Open

Neil Anders, Sigurd Hannaas, Jostein Saltskår, Erik Schuster, Maria Tenningen , et al. · 2022

Effects of capture-related stress and pre-freezing holding in refrigerated sea water (RSW) on the muscle quality and storage stability of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) during subsequent frozen storage Open

Neil Anders, Michael J. Breen, Torstein Skåra, Bjørn Roth, Izumi Sone · 2022

Crowded (stressed) and unstressed Atlantic mackerel with or without pre-freezing holding in refrigerated sea water (RSW) were stored at -19 °C for ∼12 months and analysed for nucleotide degradation (K value), muscle pH, water holding capac…

A catch limitation device to avoid excessive catches in the blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) Northeast Atlantic pelagic trawl fishery Open

Ólafur Arnar Ingólfsson, Michael J. Breen, Shale Rosen, Manu Sistiaga, Terje Jørgensen , et al. · 2022

Blue whiting ( Micromesistius poutassou ) is harvested in the Northeast Atlantic by a multinational fleet of pelagic trawlers. Occasionally, vessels take catches which exceed their remaining holding capacity and in extreme cases large catc…

Atlantic mackerel (<span><i>Scomber scombrus</i></span>) change skin colour in response to crowding stress Open

Guro Møen Tveit, Neil Anders, Morten Steen Bondø, John Reidar Mathiassen, Michael J. Breen · 2021

Wild capture can be stressful for fish. Stress has the potential to induce mortality in released unwanted catches or negative flesh quality consequences in retained ones. Such effects compromise sustainable natural resource management and …

Physiological response and survival of Atlantic mackerel exposed to simulated purse seine crowding and release Open

Neil Anders, Bjørn Roth, Michael J. Breen · 2021

Understanding how animals physiologically respond to capture and release from wild capture fishing is fundamental for developing practices that enhance their welfare and survival. As part of purse seine fishing for small pelagic fish in no…

Physiological and flesh quality consequences of pre-mortem crowding stress in Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) Open

Neil Anders, Ida Eide, Jørgen Lerfall, Bjørn Roth, Michael J. Breen · 2020

In commercial wild capture pelagic fisheries it is common practice to crowd catches to high densities to allow efficient pumping onboard. Crowding during the final stages of purse seine capture for small pelagic species often results in in…

Working Group on Methods for Estimating Discard Survival (WGMEDS) Open

Tom Catchpole, Sven Sebastian Uhlmann, Michael J. Breen, Catarina Adão, Luis Arregi , et al. · 2020

The potential for exemption from the European Union (EU) Common Fisheries Policy’s (CFP) landing obligation (discard ban), where high discard survival can be demonstrated, has identi-fied the need for scientific guidelines to conduct disca…

Assessing the effectiveness of an electrical stunning and chilling protocol for the slaughter of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) Open

Neil Anders, Bjørn Roth, Endre Grimsbø, Michael J. Breen · 2019

Inducing unconsciousness in fish using electrical stunning prior to slaughter may improve fish welfare and fillet quality if such practises can be disseminated into wild capture fisheries. The objectives of this study were to: 1) evaluate …

Effects on individual level behaviour in mackerel (Scomber scombrus) of sub-lethal capture related stressors: Crowding and hypoxia Open

Neil Anders, Kirsten Howarth, Bjørn Totland, Nils Olav Handegard, Maria Tenningen , et al. · 2019

Stress to fish during harvest in wild capture fisheries is known to negatively influence subsequent survival in catches that are released. Therefore, if fisheries are to be conducted sustainably, there is a need to promote good fish welfar…

Behavioural and welfare implications of a new slipping methodology for purse seine fisheries in Norwegian waters Open

Neil Anders, Michael J. Breen, Jostein Saltskår, Bjørn Totland, Jan Tore Øvredal , et al. · 2019

The release of unwanted fish from purse seines whilst still in the water is termed slipping and may lead to significant mortality following release. The objective of this study was to determine the fish welfare implications of a new slippi…

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