Each year, a trillion or so fish are pulled from the water, typically destined for our plates. While it's hardly a pleasurable outcome for the animal, a new study has just put a sobering number on ...

The killings are also renewing calls to relist the splittail - a native California species in the minnow family - as officially threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In addition to the ...

A recent study reveals that fish, including rainbow trout, experience intense pain for several minutes when killed using common methods like air asphyxiation. The research highlights the suffering ...

Automatic bleeding based on machine vision and robot technology: Norway is now operating the first salmon slaughter line in the world to use such techniques. The innovation makes for more rational ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the slaughter of nearly 30 fish at an Ennis ...

A staggering 10 million fish were devoured by larger prey in what researchers have called ' the largest slaughter ever recorded'. Oceanographers observed the bloody phenomenon recently when they ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acted improperly when it allowed tens of thousands of migratory aquatic birds to be shot each year to protect farmed and sport fish populations, a federal judge has ...

Every year, wild and farmed fish are killed in great numbers to feed humanity. A new study discovers that some of the fish suffer between two to twenty minutes of intense pain, once they are killed ...