Animals & Biodiversity

Think Tank Programme

Aquatic Animal Welfare and Conservation

Books

  • Abel, D. C., Grubbs, R. D. (2020) Shark Biology and Conservation: Essentials for Educators, Students, and Enthusiasts. John Hopkins University Press
  • Attenborough, D., Hugues, J. (2020) A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future. Grand Central Publishing
  • Balcombe J. (2016) What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins. One World Publications
  • Bates, A. (2020) Dark Side of the Ocean: The Destruction of our Seas, Why it Matters, and What we can do about it. GroundSwell Books 
  • Braithwaite, V. A. (2010) Do fish feel pain? Oxford University Press
  • Caine, A. (2017) Marine Biology for the Non-Biologist. Independently Published
  • Calvez, L. (2019) The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants. Sasquatch Books
  • Carson, R. (1998) The Edge of the Sea. Mariner Books
  • Carson, R. (2007) Under the Sea-Wind. Penguin Classics
  • Carson, R. (2018) The Sea around us. Oxford University Press
  • Casey, S. (2016) Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins. Anchor
  • Corson, T. (2005) The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite Crustaceans. Harper Perennial
  • Carwardine, M. (2020) Handbook of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the World. Princeton University Press
  • Colby, J. M. (2018) Orca: How we came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator. Oxford University Press
  • Corrigan Z. (2017) Water and Marine Animal Law. In: Steier G., Patel K. (eds) International Farm Animal, Wildlife and Food Safety Law. Springer, Cham
  • Derocher, A. D. (2012) Polar Bears: A Complete Guide to their Biology and Behavior. John Hopkins University Press
  • Dipper, F., Carwardine, M. (2016) The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life. Cornell University Press
  • DK (2020) Oceanology: The Secrets of the Sea Revealed. DK
  • Earle, S. A. (1996) Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans. Ballantine Books
  • Earle, S. A. (2010) The World is Blue: How our Fate and the Ocean’s are One. National Geographic
  • George, T. (2000) Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish. First Avenue Editions
  • Gershwin, L-A. (2016) Jellyfish: A Natural History. University of Chicago Press
  • Giggs, R. (2020) Fathoms: The World in the Whale. Simon & Schuster
  • Godfrey-Smith, P. (2017) Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Hardt, M. J. (2017) Sex in the Sea. Griffin
  • Greenberg, P. (2011) Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. Penguin Books
  • Hargrove, J. (2016) Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth beyond Blackfish. St. Martin’s Griffin
  • Hilborn, R., Hilborn, U. (2019) Ocean Recovery: A sustainable future for global fisheries? Oxford University Press
  • Hoare, P. (2011) The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea. Ecco
  • Kirby, D. (2013) Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity. St. Martin’s Griffin
  • Klimley, A. P. (2007) The Secret Life of Sharks: A Leading Marine Biologist reveals the Mysteries of Shark Behavior. Simon & Schuster
  • Kunzig, R. (2000) Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science. W. W. Norton & Company
  • Kurlansky, M. (2020) Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of their Common Fate. Patagonia
  • Leiren-Young, M. (2016) The Killer Whale who changed the World. Greystone Books
  • Lourie, S. A. (2016) Seahorses: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species. University of Chicago Press
  • Mann, J. (2017) Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises. University of Chicago Press
  • Mann, J., Connor, C. R., Tyack, P. L., Whitehead, H. (2000) Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales. University of Chicago Press
  • Mather, J. A. (2010) Octopus: The Ocean’s Intelligent Invertebrate. Timber Press
  • McCalman, I. (2015) The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • McLeish, T. (2014) Narwhals; Arctic Whales in a Melting World. University of Washington Press
  • McLeish, T. (2018) Return of the Sea Otter: The Story of the Animal that evaded Extinction on the Pacific Coast. Sasquatch Books
  • Mladenov, P. V. (2020) Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press
  • Montgomery, S. (2016) The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. Atria Books
  • Neiwert, D. (2016) Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales can teach us. Harry N. Abrams
  • Nichols, W. J. (2015) Blue Mind: The Surprising Science that shows how being Near, In, On, or Under Water can make you Happier, Healthier, more Connected, and Better at what you do. Back Bay Books
  • Pauly, D., Jacquet, J. (2019) Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries. Greystone Books
  • Pyenson, N. (2019) Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s most Awesome Creatures. Penguin Books
  • Roberts, C. (2008) The Unnatural History of the Sea. Island Press
  • Roberts, C. (2013) The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea. Penguin Books
  • Roberts, C. (2020) Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir. Pegasus Books
  • Rothman, J. (2020) Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World under the Sea. Storey Publishing, LLC
  • Safina, C. (2007) Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur. Holt Paperbacks
  • Sakakibara, C. (2020) Whale Snow: Inupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska. University of Arizona Press
  • Saulitis, E. (2014) Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas. Beacon Press
  • Scales, H. (2015) Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells. Bloomsbury Sigma 
  • Sheppard, C. (2014) Coral Reefs: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press
  • Simmons, M. (2014) Killing Keiko: The True Story of Free Willy’s Return to the Wild. Callinectes Press
  • Smith, R. (2019) The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs. Apollo Publishers
  • Spotila, J. R. (2004) Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation. John Hopkins University Press
  • Staaf, D. (2020) Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods. The Experiment
  • Stirling, I. (2011) Polar Bears: The Natural History of a Threatened Species. Fitzhenry and Whiteside
  • Svensson, P. (2020) The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World. Ecco
  • Rou, Y. (2020) Turtle Planet: Compassion, Conservation, and the Fate of the Natural World. Mango
  • Urbina, I. (2020) The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier. Vintage
  • Veron, C. (2018) A Life Underwater. Penguin Random House Australia
  • Veron, J. E. N. (2010) A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End. Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
  • Vizl, C. (2019) Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves. Earth Aware Editions
  • Whitehead, H. (2003) Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean. University of Chicago Press
  • Whitehead, H., Rendell, L. (2015) The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins. University of Chicago Press
  • Wieland Shields, M. (2019) Endangered Orcas: The Story of the Southern Residents. Orca Watcher
 

Articles

  • Ashley, P. J. (2007) Fish welfare: Current issues in aquaculture. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 103(3-4), pp. 199-235
  • Balcombe, J. (2016) Cognitive evidence of fish sentience. Animal Sentience 3(2)
  • Balcombe, J. (2016) In praise of fishes: Précis of What a Fish Knows. Animal Sentience 8(1)
  • Barrett, L. T., Swearer, S. E., Dempster, T. (2018) Impacts of marine and freshwater aquaculture on wildlife: A global meta-analysis. Reviews in Aquaculture 11(4), pp. 1022-1044
  • Bekoff, M. (2007) Aquatic Animals, Cognitive Ethology, and Ethics: Questions about Sentience and Other Troubling Issues that Lurk in Turbid Water. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 75(2), pp. 87-98
  • Braithwaite, V. A. (2006) Cognition in fish. Behav. Physiol. Fish 24, pp. 1-37
  • Braithwaite, V. A., Boulcott, P. (2007) Pain perception, aversion and fear in fish. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 75, pp. 131-138
  • Braithwaite, V. A., Droege, P. (2016) Why human pain can’t tell us whether fish feel pain. Animal Sentience 3(3)
  • Broom, D. M. (2007) Cognitive ability and Sentience: Which aquatic animals should be protected? Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 75(2), pp. 99-108
  • Brown, C. (2014) Fish intelligence, Sentience and Ethics. Animal Cognition 18(1)
  • Brown, C. (2016) Fish pain: An inconvenient truth. Animal Science 3(32)
  • DeTolla, L. J. et al. (1995) Guidelines for the Care and Use of Fish in Research. ILAR Journal 37(4), pp. 159-173
  • Diggles, B. K. (2016) Fish pain: Would it change current best practice in the real world? Animal Sentience 3(35)
  • Fife-Cook, I., Franks, B. (2019) Positive Welfare for Fishes: Rationale and Areas for Future Study. Fishes 4(2), 31
  • Franks, B., Ewell, C., Jacquet, J. (2021). Animal welfare risks of global aquaculture. Science Advances, 7(14).
  • Gonçalves-de-Freitas, E. (2016) Pain and Fish Welfare. Animal Sentience 3(22)
  • Guerra, A. (2019) The ingenuity of cephalopods. Animal Sentience 26(5)
  • Haikonen, P. O. (2016) On the sentience of fish. Animal Sentience 3(8) 
  • Hessler, K. (2020) Aquatic Animal Law – the New Frontier in Animal Law? Animal Voice 84, pp. 16-18
  • Hessler, K., Jenkins, R., Levenda, K. (2017) Cruelty to Human and Nonhuman Animals in the Wild-Caught Fishing Industry. Sustainable Development Law & Policy 18(1), pp. 30-63
  • Holmes, T. Q. (2020) Impact of UK sport fishing on fish welfare and conservation. Animal Sentience 3(47)
  • Jacquet, J., Franks, B., Godfrey-Smith, P. (2019) The octopus mind and the argument against farming it. Animal Sentience 26(19)
  • Johansen, R., Needham, J., Colquhoun, D., Poppe, T., Smith, A. (2006) Guidelines for health and welfare monitoring of fish used in research. Laboratory Animals 40(4), pp. 323-340
  • Jones, R. C. (2016) Fish sentience and the precautionary principle. Animal Sentience 3(10)
  • King, B., Marino, L. (2019) Octopus minds must lead to octopus ethics. Animal Sentience 26(14)
  • Levenda, K. (2013) Legislation to protect the welfare of fish. Animal Law 20, pp. 119-144
  • Levenda, K. (2017) Sensitizing humans to fish sentience. Commentary on Balcombe on Fish Knows. Animal Sentience 2017. 008
  • Mather, J. (2019) What is in an octopus’s mind? Animal Sentience 26(1)
  • Martins, C. I. M. et al. (2012) Behavioural indicators of welfare in farmed fish. Fish Physiol. Biochem. 38, pp. 17-41
  • Mather, J. A. (2016) An invertebrate perspective on pain. Animal Sentience 3(12)
  • Rose, J. D. (2016) Pain in fish: Weighing the evidence. Animal Sentience 3(25)
  • Safina, C. (2016) Fish pain: A painful topic. Animal Sentience 3(41)
  • Safina, C. (2016) Fish pain’s burden of proof. Animal Sentience 3(45)
  • Schaeck, M. et al. (2013) Fish as research tools: Alternatives to in vivo experiments. Altern. Lab. Anim. 41(3), pp. 219-229
  • Seth, A. K. (2016) Why fish pain cannot and should not be ruled out. Animal Sentience 3(14)
  • Sneddon, L. U. (2015) Pain in aquatic animals. Journal of Experimental Biology 218, pp. 967-976
  • Sneddon, L. U., Leach, M. C. (2016) Anthropomorphic denial of fish pain. Animal Sentience 3(28)
  • Wadiwel, D. J. (2016) Fish and pain: The politics of doubt. Animal Sentience 3(31)

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