Animal Welfare

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK retailer Iceland has confirmed it will eliminate the use of eyestalk ablation across its own-label shrimp supply chain by the end of 2027 and move to the use of electrical stunning, as part of its wider ongoing commitment to…

15th July 2025

Iceland Foods confirms new timetable for prawn welfare

15th July 2025

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Animal welfare environmental organisation Compassion in World Farming has launched a new Salmon Retailer Spotlight, with the aim to shine a light on the transparency and robustness of UK retailers’ animal welfare policies concerning farmed fresh, frozen and smoked salmon.

29th April 2025

Compassion launches UK salmon retailer spotlight

29th April 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Compassion in World Farming’s Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards (GFAWA) has recognised 49 winners from over 15 countries for advancing aquaculture and animal welfare.

22nd October 2024

Celebrating achievements in aquaculture and animal welfare

22nd October 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Animal welfare organisation Crustacean Compassion has strongly criticised the UK seafood industry’s newly released voluntary codes of practice, stating they fail to protect decapod crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, and prawns from…

13th August 2024

UK accused of failing on crustacean welfare

13th August 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Net pens, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), flow-through – which blue food farming system is best? According to Ohad Maiman, Managing Partner of land-based focused fund Aquafounders Capital, this is a complicated question…

27th June 2024

Farming seafood on land making a lot more sense

27th June 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A new undercover investigation by Compassion in World Farming reveals footage of shocking and widespread cruelty taking place at Polish trout farms.

31st October 2023

VIDEO: Shocking cruelty uncovered in EU fish farms

31st October 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

US President Joe Biden’s decision not to embargo products from Mexico despite the country’s failure to halt illegal wildlife trade threatening the critically endangered vaquita porpoise has drawn fire from the environmental NGO…

21st July 2023

Environmental groups slam Biden’s vaquita response

21st July 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has advised that Mexico has failed to halt the illegal wildlife trade threatening the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, diminishing the effectiveness of an international wildlife treaty. 

31st May 2023

Washington warns Mexico over illegal fishing

31st May 2023