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Coping styles in farmed fish: consequences for aquaculture
Castanheira, Maria Filipa; Conceicao, Luis; Millot, Sandie; Rey, Sonia; Begout, Marie-Laure; Damsgard, Borge; Kristiansen, Tore; Hoglund, ErikIndividual differences in physiological and behavioural responses to stressors are increasingly recognised as adaptive variation and thus raw material for evolution and fish farming improvements including selective breeding. Such individual variation has been evolutionarily conserved and is present in all vertebrate taxa including fish. In farmed animals, the interest in consistent trait associations, that is c...
Behavioural indicators of welfare in farmed fish
Martins, Catarina I. M.; Galhardo, Leonor; Noble, Chris; Damsgard, Borge; Spedicato, Maria T.; Zupa, Walter; Beauchaud, Marilyn; Kulczykowska, EwaBehaviour represents a reaction to the environment as fish perceive it and is therefore a key element of fish welfare. This review summarises the main findings on how behavioural changes have been used to assess welfare in farmed fish, using both functional and feeling-based approaches. Changes in foraging behaviour, ventilatory activity, aggression, individual and group swimming behaviour, stereotypic and abno...