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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)
Reports
- Animal Charity Evaluators (2019) Farmed fish Welfare Report
- Aquatic Animal Alliance (n.d.) Key Aquatic Animal Welfare Recommendations for Aquaculture
- Changing Markets Foundation (2019) Fishing for Catastrophe
- Changing Markets Foundation, Compassion In World Farming (2019) Until the seas run dry: How industrial aquaculture is plundering the oceans
- Compassion In World Farming (2009) The Welfare of Farmed Fish
- Compassion In World Farming (2018) The Welfare of Farmed Fish during Slaughter in the European Union
- Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (n.d.) Fish Welfare
- Eurogroup for Animals (n.d.) Building a Europe that cares for all animals: Fish Welfare
- Eurogroup for Animals (2021) Catching Up; Fish Welfare in Wild Capture Fisheries
- Eurogroup for Animals (2020) Handle with care: Lessen the suffering of the fish in EU wild capture fisheries. Policy Briefing and Recommendations
- Eurogroup for Animals (2018) Looking Beneath the Surface: Fish Welfare in European Aquaculture
- Fishcount (2010) Worse things happen at sea: The welfare of wild-caught fish
- Fish Welfare Initiative (2020) Defining ‘Welfare’ for Fish
- Fish Welfare Initiative (2020) Welfare Issues in Farmed Atlantic Salmon
- Norwegian Veterinary Institute (2019) Animal welfare in fish hatcheries. Report 14
- The Humane Society of the United States (n.d.) AN HSUS Report: The Welfare of Animals in the Aquaculture Industry
- The Humane Society of the United States (n.d.) The Welfare of Crustaceans at Slaughter
- Wijkström, U. N. (2009) The use of wild fish as aquaculture feed and its effect on income and food for the poor and the undernourished. In M. R. Hasan and M. Halwart (eds). Fish as feed inputs for aquaculture: practices, sustainability and implications. Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. No. 518. Rome, FAO. pp. 371-407
Web
- Aquatic Animal Alliance
- Aquatic Animal Law Initiative
- Aquatic Animal Law Initiative. World Aquatic Animal Day Resource Packet, 3 April 2020
- Aquatic Animal Law Initiative. World Aquatic Animal Day Resource Packet, 3 April 2021: The impacts of our Human Activities on Aquatic Animals
- ASC. Fish Welfare Project
- BBC NEWS. Is there a problem with salmon farming? (20 May 2019)
- Compassion In World Farming. Farm Animals: Fish Welfare
- Crustacean Compassion
- Eurogroup for Animals. Fish Welfare
- Fishcount
- Fishcount. Towards a strategy for humane fishing in the UK
- Fish Etho Base
- Fish Welfare Initiative. Fish Welfare and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Fish Welfare Initiative (2020) Fish Welfare Improvements in Aquaculture
- Fish Welfare Initiative (2020) Prioritizing Fish Species for Effective Welfare Improvements
- Global Reporting Program. The fish you don’t know you eat
- Let Fish Live
- Kirsh, J. (2020) Understanding Fish Welfare & Aquaculture. Oceaneers
- Oceaneers
- OIE Aquatic Animal Health Code (2019)
- OIE Aquatic Animals Commission
- Rethink Priorities. 35-150 billion fish are raised in captivity to be released into the wild every year (2 April 2019)
- Ritchie, H., Roser, M. (2019) Seafood Production. Published online at OurWorldInData.org
- RSPCA (2018) Welfare Standards for farmed Atlantic Salmon
- RSPCA (2018) Welfare Standards for farmed Rainbow Trout
- Safina, C. The Guardian. Are we wrong to assume fish can’t feel pain? (30 October 2018)
- Scientific American. Fish as Food or Fish as Wildlife? (27 January 2017) Guest blog: Kristin Hettermann
Documentaries