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 idea that fish suffer runs counter to almost everything Americans have been taught about creatures of the sea: that their brains are not complex enough to experience pain; that their behaviors ...

Information on slaughter procedures for farmed fish in aquaculture is limited, both in Europe and in Italy, due to a general lack of field data. The aim of this study was to gather information on the ...

Like most fishermen, the Japanese crewmen aboard the commercial boat Yoku Maru could not resist a bit of a brag. When the 100-ft. vessel put into Jamaica’s Montego Bay last fall, the skipper invited ...

An Animal Welfare Strategy for England has been published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that will ...

The owner of a popular fish market in Rhode Island is using ikejime, a Japanese slaughter method that leads to longer shelf life and enhanced flavor You’re reading The Food Club, the Globe’s free ...

Rainbow trout, a species farmed and consumed worldwide, have long been subjected to a quiet and often invisible suffering. A new study has shed light on the intense distress these fish endure when ...