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Fish Welfare Initiative

FWI reduces the suffering of farmed fish by researching and executing evidence-based interventions in high-priority contexts.

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Fish Welfare Initiative staff member Sanjay takes a water quality measurement at a farm in Andhra Pradesh, India.
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The mission of Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) is to reduce the suffering of farmed fish as much as possible. We do that specifically by researching and testing evidence-based welfare interventions, and then implementing them in high priority contexts. Our main implementation program right now focuses on collaborative farmer outreach in India to improve water quality and reduce stocking densities. As of this writing, this program currently works with about 100 farms (www.fwi.fish/farmers). FWI also invests significantly in research to identify and test more promising welfare improvements (www.fwi.fish/post/rnd-plans-2024).

Thanks to the support of all those who have donated, as of this writing FWI estimates that we have improved the lives of about 1.5M fish. You can learn more about our impact and how we came up with these numbers at www.fwi.fish/impact.

To learn more about our work, you can subscribe to our monthly in-depth newsletter at www.fwi.fish/news.

To learn about the value of a donation to FWI, as well as its pros and cons, see www.fwi.fish/donate.

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Hello! FWI currently works with farmers, corporations, and the government in India to transition aquaculture over to higher welfare methods. In particular, we focus on improving water quality and reducing stocking densities. Note that because 1) our work is still in its early stages, and 2) we're still figuring out how best to improve fish welfare for species in India, we believe that our work should currently be thought of as a high risk/high reward donation opportunity. To learn more about our work, check out: www.fwi.fish/donate www.fwi.fish/impact www.fwi.fish/ara Thank you for helping us build a better world for all sentient life!
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    flemming D C

    This seems to be a high scale and very neglected area.

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    Gautier RIBEROLLES

    I work in fish welfare too, I personnally know the FWI team and have high confidence that they're doing a very good job !

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    Aaron Hamlin

    They don't have cuddly faces, but if they can suffer, which it appears they can, then we should probably care more about reducing their pain.

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    Stefan Heim

    Fishes are huge numbers, and India promise high effectiveness.

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