2024

XXI Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society this year (December 6, 2024):

João Saraiva: plenary speaker: Swimming with Tinbergen - An ethological approach to fish welfare
Gonçalo Carneiro Oliveira: talk: The effect of pain on gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) behaviour
Esther Hoyo-Alvarez: talk: Characterizing fish welfare states through a behavioural and physiological assessment on European seabass

XLI Encontro Anual de Etologia - EAE 2024 (November 18, 2024):

Caroline Maia: oral presentation: Divulgando comportamento e bem-estar de peixes – podcast Fish talk (Promoting Fish Behavior and Welfare – Fish Talk Podcast)

Workshop organized by REMA, the Aquaculture Experimentation and Monitoring Network of APROMAR4 (November 15, 2024):

Pablo Arechavala: talk: An update on the project: "Fish welfare guide on the Spanish aquaculture: Vol. 4: Rainbow trout."

Animal Health Symposium 2024 (November 12, 2024):

João Saraiva: talk: Mind the fish mind: consciousness, sentience and implications for aquaculture

International Fish Congress & Fish Expo Brasil 2024 (IFC) (September 24, 2024):

Caroline Marques Maia: talk: Bem Estar Animal:da produção ao Abate humanitário - Impacto nos resultados e condicionante para acesso ao mercado (Animal Welfare: From Production to Humane Slaughter – Impact on Outcomes and a Condition for Market Access)
Caroline Marques Maia: virtual banner: Enriquecimento estrutural com aguapés e abrigos artificiais melhora a qualidade da carne da tilápia do Nilo (Structural enrichment with artificial water hyacinths and shelters improves the flesh quality of Nile tilapia)

Aqua 2024 (August 26-30, 2024)

João Saraiva: talk: Fish Welfare - current knowledge and benefits for production

Seminars at the Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) / University of Padua - SENTINEL project (May 16-17, 2024)

João Saraiva: talk: Mind the fish mind: fish sentience and implications and implications for welfare
João Saraiva: talk: Fish welafre: an ethological approach

8th AquaFarm (February 12, 2024)

João Saraiva: talk: Using ethology to improve farmed fish welfare and production

2023

24th Cal-Aqua- Laboratory Aquatic Animal Science Course (December 2023)

João Saraiva: talk: Ethology, environmental enrichment and fish welfare

Cure4Aqua Project: Workshop on Operational welfare indicators for farmed seabass (November 25, 2023)

João Saraiva: talk: Behavioural indicators of farmed fish welfare

Workshop de Lançamento de Diretrizes para o Bem-estar Animal na Piscicultura - Fórum Animal (November 11, 2023):

Caroline Marques Maia: round table to discuss important topics related to fish welfare in aquaculture.

XL Encontro Anual de Etologia - EAE 2023 (October 30, 2023):

Caroline Marques Maia: mini course: Divulgando etologia na sociedade a partir dos peixes: de textos a podcasts
(Disseminating ethology on society based on fishes: from texts to podcasts)
Caroline Marques Maia: oral presentation: Tilápia do Nilo visita tanto abrigo quanto ambiente complexo similarmente, mas prefere ficar mais tempo com o abrigo (Nile tilapia visit both shelter and complex environment similarly, but prefer to stay longer with the shelter)
Caroline Marques Maia: talk in a coordinated session: Estado da arte sobre o bem-estar das espécies aquáticas de produção com base na fair-fish database (State of the art on the welfare of aquatic farmed species based on the fair-fish database)

4th Annual Aquatic Life Conference (October 17, 2023):

María J. Cabrera-Álvarez: talk: fair-fish database: welfare assessment of aquatic species in aquaculture (Essential Tools and Resources panel)
Caroline Marques Maia: talk: Investigating the state-of-the-art of fish welfare in farms using the fair-fish database (Essential Tools and Resources panel)

10^oEncontro de Divulgação Científica e Cultural - EDICC 10 2023 (October 17, 2023):

Caroline Marques Maia: talk: Fish Talk: um podcast de divulgação científica sobre comportamento e bem-estar de peixes

IFC International Fish Congress & Fish Expo Brasil 2023 (September 19, 2023):

Caroline Marques Maia: talk: O bem-estar se paga: melhorar a qualidade de vida dos peixes eleva a produtividade e rentabilidade
Caroline Marques Maia: virtual poster: Quais aspectos do bem-estar dos peixes têm maior probabilidade e potencial na aquicultura?

Aquaculture Europe 2023 (European Aquaculture Society - EAS) (September 18, 2023):

João Saraiva: session opening lecture: Welfare and climate change in fish farming
João Saraiva: talk: Assessing rainbow trout welfare at slaughter: an integrative approach using behavioural, physiological, proteomic and quality indicators with a novel temperature stunning method
Maria Cabrera-Alvarez: talk: Seabream welfare during slaughter - behaviour and heart rate assessment
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Swimming and cardio-activity of european seabass reared in experimental sea cages
Esther Hoyo-Alvarez: talk: Consciousness indicators and cardiac responses of European seabass to different slaughtering processes
Ana Roque: talk: The effects of pre-sacrifice and crowding on the heart activity of commercial seabass

Behaviour 2023 Conference (August 14, 2023):

María J. Cabrera-Álvarez: talk: A behavioural and physiological approach for the study of welfare in seabream broodstock exposed to environmental enrichment
María J. Cabrera-Álvarez: talk: Welfare assessment of farmed aquatic species using the fair-fish database

Seminar in China, at the invitation of Zhejiang University (July 30, 2023):

João Saraiva: invited speaker: Mind the fish minds: an integrative approach in to fish welfare

Research and Practice of Aquatic Animal Welfare Conference (July 29, 2023):

João Saraiva: keynote speaker: Fish welfare: fundamentals and applications

Extinction or Regeneration 2023 Conference (May 11, 2023):

João Saraiva: invited speaker: The future of aquatic foods'

IEEE International Workshop on Measurements and Applications in Veterinary and Animal Sciences (April 26, 2023):

João Saraiva: keynote spearker: Non-invasive indicators of fish welfare
João Saraiva: co-chaired the session Non-invasive indices of welfare in farmed fish

Towards a more sustainable EU aquaculture - Compassion in World Farming event at EU Parliament (January 24, 2023):

João Saraiva: talk: Fish welfare: a common goal

2022

Seminar at Shanghai Ocean University - Shanghai, China (December 5, 2022):

João Saraiva: talk: Fish Welfare: a common goal

XVIII Congreso Nacional de Acuicultura in Cádiz, Spain (November 21, 2022):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Guía sobre el bienestar de los peces en la Acuicultura Española
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: co-chaired one welfare session and presented the talk: Enriquecimiento ambiental en doradas de acuicultura: fundamentos y aplicaciones en distintas fases (oral presentation)
María J. Cabrera-Álvarez: oral presentation: Las tareas rutinarias en acuicultura alteran la frecuencia cardiaca de las doradas reproductoras

XXXIX Encontro Anual de Etologia (Brazilian Annual Ethology Meeting) - EAE 2022 (November 1, 2022):

Caroline Marques Maia: talk: Divulgação científica em comportamento e bem-estar animal: um diálogo com a sociedade a partir dos peixes
Caroline Marques Maia: oral presentation: Preferências e motivações em peixes: novas abordagens para o bem-estar animal
Caroline Marques Maia: poster: Tilápia-do-Nilo prefere interagir com toca do que com estrutura complexa

XXII Seminário de Aquacultura - Associação Portuguesa de Aquacultores (October 28, 2022):

João Saraiva: talk: Bem-estar animal na aquacultura: um objectivo comum

Investigação em Aquacultura: Contribuição para o crescimento azul - Instituto Português de Mar e Atmosfera (October 27, 2022):

João Saraiva: talk: A importância do bem-estar e a ocorrência de patologias em peixes marinhos

Foro de los Recursos Marinos y de la Acuicultura de las Rías Gallegas' - ForoAcui XXIV (October 6, 2022):

João Saraiva: talk: El bienestar de los peces: un objetivo común
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Enriquecimiento ambiental: una estrategia para mejorar la producción y el bienestar de los peces en cautividad

Aquaculture Europe 2022 (European Aquaculture Society - EAS) (September 27, 2022):

João Saraiva: participated of a plenary session presenting the talk: The Move towards Circularity
João Saraiva: moderator of the welfare session, presenting the talk: Domestication and Welfare on Farmed Fish
María J. Cabrera-Álvarez: talk: Husbandry procedures affect heart rate of broodstock of gilthead sea bream
Ana Rita Oliveira: talk: Structural enrichment effects on the welfare of gilthead seabream sparus aurata broodstock

The IX Iberian Congress of Ichthyology (SIBIC) (June 20, 2022):

María J. Cabrera-Álvarez: talk: Husbandry procedure effects on brood-stock gilthead seabream’s heart rate housed under enriched and bare environments
Ana Rita Oliveira: talk: Effects of Environmental Enrichment on the Welfare of Gilthead Seabream Broodstock

Jornadas do Mar - ICBAS - Universidade do Porto (March 27, 2022):

João Saraiva: talk: Desafios da Aquacultura

Online event of Eurogroup for Animals - Fish welfare in aquaculture: the practical approach to husbandry, health and consumers (March 22, 2022):

João Saraiva: talk: Interactive fish welfare training

Master in Animal Law and Society - Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (January 20, 2022):

João Saraiva: talk: Mind the fish mind

2021

Webinar - The need for welfare legislation for aquatic animals (December 01, 2021):

João Saraiva: talk: Fish have minds but who minds the fish?

VII Simpósio Zebrafish - como modelo animal de pesquisa (November 25, 2021):

Caroline Marques Maia: participated of a round table presenting the talk: Respostas de preferência dos peixes aplicadas ao seu bem-estar com ênfase no zebrafish

XXXVIII Encontro Anual de Etologia & III Reunião de Biologia do Comportamento do Cone Sul (November 11-13, 2021):

Caroline Marques Maia: talk: Avaliação de bem-estar em peixes de produção com base na FishEthoBase

Aquaculture Europe 2021 (European Aquaculture Society - EAS) (October 06, 2021):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Structural enrichment in gilthead seabream aquaculture - fundamentals and applications
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Environmental preference of Nile tilapia according to behavior traits
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Swimming activity of gilthead seabream in swim-tunnels
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Suspended structural enrichment improves growth homogeneity of juvenile seabass stocks
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: The effect of tank cover on welfare of farmed Nile tilapia

Webinar - Unlocking the potential of tilapia aquaculture: innovation, welfare and sustainable development (July 28, 2021):

Caroline M Maia: general facilitator of the webinar
Caroline M Maia: talk: The 5 Domains applied to fish welfare, with an emphasis on Nile Tilapia

Simpósio de Bem-Estar em Peixes (Symposium of Fish Welfare) (July 02, 2021):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Enriquecimento Ambiental na Aquacultura
João Saraiva: talk: FishEthoBase: uma plataforma mundial para o bem-estar em peixes

Aquaculture Advisory Council - WORKING GROUP 1 Meeting (June 02, 2021):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Enrichment and meeting the ethological requirements of fish

Animal Welfare Group Nigeria - Webinar (May 19, 2021):

João Saraiva: talk: Fish Welfare: an ethological approach

Associacion ibérica de zoos y acuarios - AIZA Annual Congress (May 12, 2021):

João Saraiva: talk: Fish Welfare: an ethological approach

Aquaculture Europe 2020 - EAS2020 (April 12-15, 2021):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Structural enrichment in tanks enhances spatial cognition of juvenile gilthead seabream
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Using acoustic telemetry to monitor swimming behavior of gilthead seabream in sea cages (awarded)

Compassion in World Farming - Webinar (January 27, 2021):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Environmental Enrichment and Predator Control for Farmed Fish

2020

Portuguese Ethological Society annual congress SPE2020 (November 6, 2020)

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Influence of captive environments on fish ethology and welfare

Aquatic Animal Welfare Conference (November 1-4, 2020):

Maria Filipa Castanheira: talk: How to ensure good welfare practices in the aquaculture industry
Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Environmental Enrichment And Fish Welfare In Aquaculture
João Saraiva: talk: Driving Mr Tinbergen – Ethology and welfare in fish farming

Aquaculture Advisory Council Fish Welfare Seminar (October 2, 2020):

João Saraiva: talk: FishEthoBase - an open access database on fish ethology and welfare

Sciaena webinar cycle on sustainable aquaculture (June 18, 2020):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Escapees and carrying capacity

Sciaena webinar cycle on sustainable aquaculture (June 2, 2020):

João Saraiva: talk: Fish have minds but who minds the fish?

2019

Intl. Tagung Angewandte Ethologie, Freiburg (November 18, 2019):

Billo Heinzpeter Studer: talk: Erarbeitung von praxistauglichen Fischwohl-Kriterien für die Aquakultur (Keynote on the CareFish project for Friend of the Sea)

CCMAR Seminar (November 14, 2019):

Pablo Arechavala-Lopez: talk: Enriching aquaculture to promote fish welfare

Aquaculture Advisory Council, Brussels (October 15, 2019):

João L. Saraiva: talk: Driving Mr. Tinbergen, ethology and welfare in fish farming

Nachhaltige Beschaffung von Fisch der Stadt Wien, Vienna (October 3, 2019):

Billo Heinzpeter Studer: talk: Welchen Fisch kauf ich denn nun?

Eurogroup and Open Phlinathropy grantees, Brussels (June 11, 2019):

João L. Saraiva and Billo Heinzpeter Studer: talk: The Carefish project for FOS

1st Symposium on Welfare in Aquaculture, Swansea (May 14, 2019):

Maria Filipa Castanheira: talk: Fish Welfare Criteria in Worldwide Aquaculture: the CareFish Project

"Rethink Fish", European Parliament, Brussels (March 6, 2019):