This document provides a non-exhaustive list of general and species-specific good husbandry practices (GHPs) on key topics related to welfare and health in the different production techniques of some European aquaculture species, mussels, common carp, rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon, European sea bass, gilthead sea bream, meagre (new in November 2025), Senegalese Sole (new in November 2025) and European Turbot (new in November 2025).
The selected GHPs aim to help implementing, in a practical way, key legal obligations of operators - and sometimes go beyond the key legal obligations – on animal health and welfare requirements. The GHPs have been selected from the 27 EU Member States as well as from Norway and UK. It tries to distinguish between practices that are currently implemented by the sector and those related to innovative practices that are still under research, mainly coming from scientific literature.