Fish Farming: Animal Welfare
(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to introduce mandatory pre-stun slaughter for farmed fish.
This question was answered on 18th September 2023
The Animal Welfare Committee has updated its 2014 Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing and we will study their recommendations carefully, including those around stunning of farmed fish.
Current legislation on the protection of animals at the time of killing requires that farmed fish are spared avoidable pain, distress or suffering during their killing and related operations.