Webinar: ‘Conscious consumers and crustaceans: how to share your welfare story’

Catch up on our webinar: ‘Conscious consumers and crustaceans: how to share your welfare story’. The session focused on how seafood businesses can effectively communicate their decapod welfare policies to consumers.

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Industry Codes of Practice for the Welfare of Crabs, Lobsters, Crawfish and Nephrops

The UK seafood industry has published new welfare codes of practice in response to the legal recognition of decapod crustacean sentience.

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The efficacy of electrical stunning of New Zealand rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) and freshwater crayfish (Paranephrops zealandicus) using the Crustastun™

This paper evaluated the efficacy of the Crustastun™ on two commercially important New Zealand crustacean species.

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Company Case Study: FAI

FAI reveals how a new learning and monitoring app will empower shrimp farmers to improve animal welfare.

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Codes of Practice for the Welfare of Decapod Crustaceans in the Food Chain: from Capture to Killing

The purpose of these Codes of Practice is to provide a framework of good practice guidance for the treatment of decapod crustaceans used in the food chain.

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Sea-to-Plate: The welfare journey of decapod crustaceans

The Sea-to-Plate report reviews welfare compromises at each stage of the supply chain

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Policy Factsheet – Transport

Large numbers of decapod crustaceans are commercially transported every year – read a list of do’s and don’ts for transporting decapod crustaceans.

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Policy Factsheet – Mutilations

A quick look factsheet about decapod mutilation.

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Policy Factsheet – Slaughter and Killing

Decapod crustaceans must be slaughtered using methods that ensure instantaneous insensibility or death. This factsheet summarises the 8 most common industrial slaughter methods from a welfare perspective.

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Policy Factsheet – Stunning

Stunning crustaceans before slaughter is an important welfare standard for industry – read the facts around this important topic.

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Hinchcliffe et al. 2021 – European lobster Homarus gammarus aquaculture: Technical developments, opportunities and requirements

Recent innovations are addressing key bottlenecks that have prevented cost-efficient commercial production of European lobster.

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Crump et al. 2022 – Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence

Review the evidence relating to decapod sentience using a novel framework developed specifically for evaluating invertebrates.

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