Issues Documented

Mercy for Animals

Live skinning, no stunning before slaughter

No stunning, use of hooks to move tuna, stabbed alive

Vancouver, Canada

Chief George Quocksister Jr. from the Laich-Kwil-Tach Nation (not an organization)

horrific deformities, herring wild fish in with salmon, tumors, "blind, emaciated salmon swimming in their own feces" and "sea lice from one of the fish farms had been killing young wild salmon"

In response to this campaign, some Polish stores like Tesco have banned the sale of live carp for Christmas

Extended time out of water, piled on top of each other, crowding, fish left out in dirt, fish stuck in air in nets,

Animals Now (formerly Anonymous)

prolonged starvation; water quality from waste; parasites and pesticides; streptococcus and other diseases; use of hormones; slaughter methods (e.g. freeze to death, gutting while alive, etc)

Tušti narvai (Open Cages Lithuania)

high stocking desnities, bagged alive, prelsaughter mortality, wounds, parasites, missing scales

finfish, eels, shrimp, etc.

bycatch, no stunning, frozen alive, exploded swim bladders

sharks, dolphins, etc.

Mercy for Animals

California banned driftnets

Excess bycatch, animals tangled in nets, fish killed via hanging

Sea Bream, Sea Bass, Trout

stressful net capture, asphyxation via ice, fish binding, packed in boxes alive, artificial insimmination, stressful transport

Scottish Salmon Watch

deformities, lesions, sea lice, water quality, cleaner fish, stocking densities

bad water quality, wounds and fin rot, C02 killing, triploidy, bad stocking densities, poor fin condition, out of water before slaughter

sea bass, sea bream, salmon, trout

Compassion in World Farming

pre-slaughter mortality, poor handling, crowding, slaughter via asphyxiation, packed in boxes alive

In response to this campaign, some Polish stores like Tesco have banned the sale of live carp for Christmas (https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffinanse.wp.pl%2Ftesco-rezygnuje-ze-sprzedazy-zywych-karpi-klienci-kupia-tylko-mrozone-ryby-6428709232146561a). Also see industry response: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cenyrolnicze.pl%2Fwiadomosci%2Fwiesci-rolnicze%2Fpozostale-wiesci-rolnicze%2F17996-obroncy-praw-zwierzat-pokazuja-zdjecia-z-odlawiania-karpia-czy-te-obrazy-sa-bulwersujace

Extended time out of water, piled on top of each other, crowding,

finfish, eels, lobster, squid, etc.

Igualdad Animal (Animal Equality)

Asphyxiation, decompression, gaff hooks, freezing alive, cutting while live

Recreational fishing and the suffering of fish (Pêche de loisir et souffrance des poissons)

Paris Animaux Zoopolois

betta in their small cups, mortality, transport stress

Tušti narvai (Open Cages Lithuania)

Live fish put into bags, held in little/no water/crowding, wounds, poor water quality

Company currently facing a consumer protection lawsuit in response to investigation

fungus, fish being thrown, dirty conditions, high mortality rates, killed via "thumping", deformities, stressful vaccination, mutilation, fish killed by being thrown in trash, aggression

fish binding -> long, torturous process of asphyxiation

high mortality, bad water quality, confinement in small bags, transportation, left out of water

Sea Bass and Sea Bream

Slaughter via ice asphyxiation, no environmental enrichment, antibiotic overuse, disease outbreaks, high mortality (20%), transportation and crushing in nets, high stocking densities

harpooned by a gaff hook, cut open whilst alive

Mercy for Animals

out of water transportation, long assembly line to slaughter, cutting fish in half for samples

Invasions of parasitic sealice and the inhumane treatments used to tackle outbreaks such as hydrolicers and thermolicers

RSPCA Assured suspends 'high-end' trout farms over workers abusing fish caught on video

Mostly Indian major carps, some catfish, some shrimp

Slaughter via ice asphyxiation, prolonged crowding, dirty conditions, antibiotics, fish killed by children in wet markets, water use

In conjunction with AE's ask for humane slaughter legistlation/policy in the UK

Ineffective stunning, slaughter, gill slitting while still concious, fish dropped on floor, fish beaten with clubs/priests to stun

Compassion in World Farming

Sea lice, deformiteis, tail rot, thermal delousing causing mortalities, cleaner fish use, high mortalities, open wounds and lesions, seaweed growing in wounds, lack of enrichment, environmental damage

Sea bass, sea bream

Essere Animali/We Animals Media

Crowding, out of water, asphyxia, sea cages, dead fish, slaughter without stunning

Scottish Salmon Watch

Co-op originally suspended purchases of Mowi salmon pending an investigation, but later deleted the posts. Lots of industry responses (eg)

Sea lice, fin rot, wounds, mortalities

Slaughter house - crowding, prolonged suffering, ineffective stunning, unintended species like turtles

Carp, catfish, prawns

Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations

Asphyxiation, slaughter, pollution, diseased fish sold to markets, rotting fish fed to catfish, horrible slaughter, antibiotic use

Asfixiados: la cruel indiferencia hacia los peces (Asphyxiated: The Cruel Indifference Towards Fishes)

Igualdad Animal Mexico (Animal Equality)

Lack of legal protection, poor water quality, injuries, poor handling, asphyxiation, live exsanguination, cannibalism, ice bath killing

Various species (flatfish)

Fish suffering in trawling fisheries and the lack of measures to reduce the suffering of wild caught fish (e.g lack of stunner). Commented by Lynne Sneddon

Sinergia Animal, We Animals Media

Launch of campaign to get Makro, one of Thailand's largest retailers, to stop selling live fish

Poor water quality, handling out of water, ice asphyxation, disease, infections, deformities, mortalities, fish meal fish oil FMFO, live/wet markets, slaughter in markets, put in bags while alive, sold live in retailers

Trout Restocking for Fishing (Enquête l'empoisonnement dans le but de pêcher)

Paris Animaux Zoopolois

Water quality, crowding, handling out of water, infections, deformities, fishing, transportation, hooking, asphyxiation

Tilapia, catfish, milkfish

Act for Farmed Animals, Sinergia Animal, We Animals Media,

Poor water quality, disease, mortalities, no stunning, skinned alive, fish kills, kept live in supermarkets

Trout, sea bass, sea bream

Essere Animali/CIWF

Poor water quality, grading, mortalities, lack of enrichment, aggression

Trout, sea bass, sea bream

Fundación Franz Weber

Crowding, mortalities, handling out of water, slaughter via ice

Enquête : le calvaire des poissons vendus par DECATHLON pour la pêche au vif

Paris Animaux Zoopolois

Rearing of farmed fish to be sold as live baits in the big sports retailer Decathlon

Compassion in World Farming

Crowding, disease, handling, slaughter, improper stunning, eyes being removed while conscious

Crowding, asphyxiation, antibiotics, high levels of lead, pollution

‘Monstrous’ sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms

Sturgeon, coho salmon

Calling for a ban on caviar in Canada

Inability to express natural behaviors, deformities, egg extraction via straw, food withdrawal prior to slaughter, triploidy, hormones and antibiotics, slaughter via ice, cruel slaughter