> A strong message from Fábio Manuel Barroso Sousa, Consultancy and Training Manager at FishEthoGroup, highlights a core principle guiding our work:
“The way fish are managed depends on how well we understand their behavioural and physiological needs. When we invest in strengthening expertise and building capacity, we move away from viewing fish as numbers within a system and toward recognising them as living animals.”
At FishEthoGroup, we are a non-profit association dedicated to improving the welfare of aquatic animals across aquaculture and fisheries. Our mission is to ensure that scientific knowledge is not only generated, but effectively translated into practical improvements.
We bridge science and practice through four key pillars:
🔬 Scientific research
🎓 Training & events
🤝 Consulting
📢 Science communication
Capacity building and technical expertise are essential to advancing fish welfare across sectors.
(posted on 2026/02/12)
➜FishEthoGroup is a team of motivated professionals focused on improving fish welfare based on their behaviours.
We develop scientific and applied actions to reach our goals by promoting research, helping to disseminate knowledge, giving consultancy, and training about fish welfare.
Want to know more about us? See information below.
We are a non-profit association bridging the gaps between science and the stakeholders in the aquaculture sector: producers, certifiers, retailers, NGOs, policy makers and consumers. Our goal is to study and improve the welfare of farmed fishes and other aquatic animals by applying ethological scientific knowledge into best practices in fish farming.
Throughout the years, our team has been involved in many areas of the aquaculture sector, from scientific research to campaigning, from auditing to policy. We use that expertise to promote the welfare of fishes through many initiatives with our partners and collaborators.
We develop science-based solutions to assess and improve the welfare of captive and wild-caught fishes. In our approach, we apply a strong background in aquaculture and ethology to address the welfare of fishes. We use state-of-the-art knowledge on the behaviour of a species to understand how its welfare is affected under farming conditions and what we can do to promote it.
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If you are interested in scientific and technical expertise applied to welfare in fish farming, please contact us.
We develop custom-made welfare solutions for your initiatives, as consultancy in farms or other facilities, tailored courses, guidance, certification requirements or systems, specific research studies and welfare protocols (see What we do).
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