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Helping Fish Breathe – A Promising Intervention for Animals

1/3/2019

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​This ask report focuses on improving the environmental conditions of factory farmed animals. Specifically, it focuses on improving management of dissolved oxygen levels for fish.
Environmental factors can influence disease and injury rates as well as stress and anxiety levels. A wide variation of improvements is possible with respect to the environmental conditions for farmed animals, and many well-established charities are tackling these. Among others, we explored interventions like improving light management or decreasing stocking density at broiler chicken and turkey farms. A relatively neglected area, however, is managing dissolved oxygen (DO) levels for farmed fish.

Dissolved oxygen is the most important indicator of water quality and is critical for fish welfare. Even small variations in DO levels can be associated with increasing cortisol levels in the blood. 
Preliminary research suggests that proper DO management can make impressively cost-effective improvements to animal lives. We estimate that this intervention can gain fish 21.5 welfare points, which is considerably more than what could be achieved by a charity aimed at increasing the space given to broiler chickens.
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We expect this to be among the top 5 most promising ask reports we will create in this research. This report considers why this is, and what bottlenecks the initiative may face.
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1 Comment
Michael
3/24/2019 10:17:26 pm

Very interesting report.

In a few places this report states the intervention would result in 21.5 welfare points gained per fish per year, but then in one place it gives the figure 14.75 instead, following that with the same price-per-welfare-point estimate given earlier. And the diagram on page 6 indicates the DO intervention would cause a 25.5 welfare point change. Is there a reason for these different figures?

(Also, as a small point, I was thrown off for a second by the change in welfare points on page 6 seeming to look like negative numbers, even though it's a welfare gain. The positive presentation in your other reports seems clearer to me.)

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