Institute of Aquaculture MSc student Nsogbu Wadike, carried out his research project in Thailand, supported through the Open Philanthropy funded “Improving Farmed Fish Welfare in Asia” initiative.
Can Tho University recently held a workshop in the framework of the project “Perceptions of farmed fish welfare by different stakeholders: a focus on small-scale fish farms in Mekong Delta, Vietnam”
The Vietnam Institute of Fisheries Economics and Planning (VIFEP) report on the start-up of their research project: “Assessing the status of awareness, behavior, best practices and proposing solutions related to improving animal welfare in shrimp value chains in the Mekong River Delta in Viet Nam”
As part of the ongoing welfare hotspot analysis, Simão and Prof. Surintorn from Suranaree University of Technology, visited three farms in Nakhon Ratchasima and Nakhon Sawan.
During October 2023, David Little and Simão Zacarias undertook a series of field visits as part of a fish welfare “hotspot analysis” aiming to identify where issues of greatest concern for fish welfare arise within the value chain.