fishcount.org.uk is a website to increase understanding of fish sentience, raise awareness and promote solutions to the suffering of fishes in commercial fishing.

 

Latest news: Reports from the UFAW and HSA symposia, July 2011

 

 

Our new report examining this major but neglected animal welfare issue was launched on 26th August 2010:

1. The first detailed report to argue for fish welfare in commercial fishing (as far as we are aware)
2. Includes the first systematic estimate of the number of fish caught.

New report:

Executive summary  ( 53 KB) 6 pages

Summary report  ( 1,480 KB) 49 pages

Full report  ( 4,440 KB) 141 pages

For more details of estimate of number of
fish caught annually:

Overview

Full paper ( 109 KB) 18 pages

See publications for a full list of our publications. Lower and higher resolution versions of this report are available there and some chapters may be downloaded individually.

See updates email list to receive details of future publications.

See Fish: the forgotten victims on our plate by Peter Singer in The Guardian and in translation.

The summary report is available in a German adaptation by the Swiss fish welfare organisation fair-fish.

Extracts of the full report are now available in French