TY  - GEN
AU  - Saraiva,Joao
AU  - Arechavala-Lopez,Pablo
TI  - Welfare of Cultured and Experimental Fishes
SN  - books978-3-03921-711-3
PY  - 2019///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - n/a
KW  - muscle texture
KW  - fractal analysis
KW  - fish welfare
KW  - Danio rerio
KW  - motivation
KW  - histopathology
KW  - elevated phosphate concentrations
KW  - sharks
KW  - welfare
KW  - African catfish (Clarias gariepinus)
KW  - feed efficiency
KW  - fighting ability
KW  - aggressive interaction
KW  - social rank
KW  - boldness
KW  - ethology
KW  - fisheries management
KW  - physiological response
KW  - FishEthoBase
KW  - welfare scores
KW  - welfare criteria
KW  - stress
KW  - pain
KW  - stereotypical behaviour
KW  - Scyliorhinus canicula
KW  - animal behavior
KW  - welfare enhancement
KW  - social communication
KW  - nociception
KW  - negative and positive affect
KW  - aggression
KW  - fertilisation success
KW  - risk analysis
KW  - aquaculture
KW  - hematology
KW  - Amyloodinium ocellatum
KW  - framework
KW  - structural complexity
KW  - territorial
KW  - growth
KW  - positive welfare
KW  - social stress
KW  - age
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Welfare is a multidimensional concept that can be described as the state of an animal as it copes with the environment. Captive environments can impact farmed animals at different levels, especially fishes, considering their highly complex sensory world. Understanding the ethology of a species is therefore essential to address fish welfare, and the interpretation of behavioral responses in specific rearing contexts (aquaculture or experimental contexts) demands knowledge of their underlying physiological, developmental, functional, and evolutionary mechanisms. In natural environments, the stress response has evolved to help animals survive challenging conditions. However, animals are adapted to deal with natural stressors, while anthropogenic stimuli may represent stressors that fishes are unable to cope with. Under such circumstances, stress responses may be maladaptive and cause severe damage to the animal. As welfare in captivity is affected in multiple dimensions, multiple possible indicators can be used to assess the welfare state of individuals. In the past, research on welfare has been largely focusing on health indicators and predominantly based on physiological stress. Ethological indicators, however, also integrate the mental perspective of the individual and have been gradually assuming an important role in welfare research: behavioral responses to stressors are an early response to adverse conditions, easily observable, and demonstrative of emotional states. Many behavioral indicators can be used as non-invasive measurements of welfare in practical contexts such as aquaculture and experimentation. Presently, research in fish welfare is growing in importance and interest because of the growing economic importance of fish farming, the comparative biology opportunities that experimental fishes provide, and the increasing public sensitivity to welfare issues
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1802
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62581
ER  -