Books & chapters

Books & Guidelines:

• Arechavala López P (coordinator). A guide on fish welfare in Spanish Aquaculture - Volume 4: welfare of rainbow trout. Asociación Empresarial de Acuicultura de España; 2025.
• Arechavala López P (coordinator). A guide on fish welfare in Spanish Aquaculture - Volume 3: welfare of gilthead sea bream. Asociación Empresarial de Acuicultura de España; 2024.
• Arechavala López P (coordinator). A guide on fish welfare in Spanish Aquaculture - Volume 2: welfare of European seabass. Asociación Empresarial de Acuicultura de España; 2024.
• Arechavala López P (coordinator). A guide on fish welfare in Spanish Aquaculture - Volume 1: concepts and generalities. Asociación Empresarial de Acuicultura de España; 2022.
• Quintiliano MH, Maia CM, Pedrazzani AS, Molento CF and Saraiva JL. Aquatic Animal Welfare as a Driver for the Improvement of Food Production Systems. Research Topic - Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 2023; 10. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1297306
• Arechavala López P (coordinator). A guide on fish welfare in Spanish Aquaculture - Volume 1: concepts and generalities. Asociación Empresarial de Acuicultura de España; 2022.
• Studer BH (ed). Fish welfare in aquaculture — Problems and approaches (Animal Husbandry in the Focus series). Munich, Germany: International Society of Livestock Husbandry (IGN); 2020.
• Studer, BH. Fair-Fish: Fair-Fish: Because You Shouldn't Tickle Fishes. Zurich, Switzerland: rüffer & rub Sachbuchverlag; 2020. 
• Arechavala-López PA, Saraiva JL. Welfare Of Cultured And Experimental Fishes. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI; 2019. doi:10.3390/books978-3-03921-711-3
   

Chapters:

• Huntingford F, Kadri S, Saraiva JL. Welfare of cage cultured fish under climate change. In: Woo P and Subasinghe RP (Eds.) Climate Change on Diseases and Disorders of Finfish in Cage Culture, 3rd edition; CABI; 2023. doi: 10.1079/9781800621640.0000.
• Saraiva JL, Arechavala-Lopez P, Sneddon, L. Farming fish. In: Knight A, Phillips C, and Sparks P (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare; Thames, UK: Taylor and Francis; 2022.
• Studer BH. Farmed fishes: Why so many? Fish welfare: why so late? In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 4-9; Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Castanheira MF. Coping styles, a tool to better understand fish welfare. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 30-36. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Arechavala-Lopez P. Structural enrichment at fish farms: the science and the fiction. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 40-44. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Volstorf J. Knowledge as prerequisite for fish welfare — FishEthoBase as a basis. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 45-55. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Saraiva JL, Arechavala-Lopez P. Welfare of fish — no longer the elephant in the room. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 56-59. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Studer BH, Castanheira MF, Arechavala-Lopez P, Saraiva JL, Volstorf J. Development of fish welfare guidelines for the ‘Friend of the Sea’ (FOS) certification. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 60-64. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Studer BH. About our relatives under water. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 80. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Studer BH. Fair-fish: Idea with impact. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 81. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Maia CM. The comprehensive new book of fish welfare.In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 79. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Maia CM. Up-to-date overview of fish welfare in aquaculture and animal testing. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 79-80. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Maia CM. Stress and fish welfare: indicators in the mucus. In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 80-81. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Maia CM. Improvement of life regardless of the degree of sentience.In: Studer BH (Ed.); Fish welfare in aquaculture - Problems and approaches, 81. Germany: IGN - International Society of Livestock Husbandry, 2020.
• Saraiva JL, Castanheira MF, Arechavala-López PA, Volstorf J, Studer BH. Domestication and Welfare in Farmed Fish. In: Teletchea F. (Ed.); Animal Domestication; London, UK: IntechOpen; 2018. doi:10.5772/intechopen.77251.

Reports:

• Saraiva, J, Brijs, J, Cabrera-Álvarez, MJ, Arechavala-Lopez, P, Gräns, A. Blueprint for research to detect loss of consciousness and/or sensibility of fish at slaughter. EU Reference Centre for Animal Welfare Aqua (EURCAW Aqua), Zenodo; 2024
• Saraiva JL (coordinator). Using ethology to improve farmed fish welfare and production. Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC); 2023.
• Saraiva, J.L., Arechavala-Lopez, P., Cabrera-Álvarez, M. J & Waley, D. Research for ANIT Committee –Particular welfare needs in animal transport: aquatic animals, European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Brussels; 2021.
• Roque, A., Castanheira, M.F., Toffan, A., Arechavala-Lopez, P. et al. Report on fish welfare and list of operational welfare indicators in sea bream. Deliverable 4.5 of the Horizon 2020 project MedAID (GA number 727315), published in the project web site on 17.02.2020: http://www.medaid-h2020.eu/index.php/deliverables/