Our goals

The welfare of wild-caught fish has been overlooked in practice, research, advocacy, and policy. The Carefish/catch project aims to promote better fishing standards, by addressing 5 main goals:

• assess global animal welfare impacts in fisheries
• identify the potential of reducing animal suffering in various fishing methods and species
• analyse the economic and social feasibility of the improvements suggested
• raise problem and solution awareness in general and specific audiences
• implement welfare guidelines into the Friend of the Sea fisheries certification scheme

Our reports

One important objective of the project is to identify keypoints of welfare hazards and suggest improvements to reduce suffering of individuals in specific fishing methods. This would enable the establishment of welfare standards into the fisheries sector throughout a series of recommendations and guidelines to be implemented into fisheries certifications.

Our welfare assessment reports in fisheries:

• Gillnet and trammel net (report | press release )
• Purse seine (report | press release )
• Pots and Traps (report | press release )

Our team

The international consortium responsible for this project is formed by

• fair-fish international
• FishEthoGroup
• Friend of the Sea
• Centre of Marine Sciences
• DeMoS Institute

The funding is awarded through a grant from Open Philanthropy .

This project is an absolutely pioneering approach to a highly complex field, integrating both animal, social, economic and policy perspectives, and the outcomes will impact the way we look into fisheries.