Description
The Lumpfish Welfare Watcher is a web and desktop interface designed to help fish farmers assess and improve the welfare of Lumpfish based on the validated operational welfare score index known as the Lumpfish Operational Welfare Score Index (LOWSI). To this end, it includes: 1) the Lumpfish Welfare e-learning, which provides essential information for both professionals and students on Lumpfish welfare and shows how to score the lumpish visual indicators which is essential to use the Rapid Welfare Assessment Tool; 2) the Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator, that serves to calculate the BMI of a given sample of Lumpfish based on wet weight (measured in grams) and total length (measured in millimetres); and, 3) the Rapid Welfare Assessment Tool, which assesses the proportion of fish that have good welfare, moderately compromised welfare and severely compromised welfare.
Details
- Type
- Tool
- Topic(s)
- Data and Monitoring, Diversification and Adding Value, Producer and Market Organisations
- Targeted users
- Aquaculture producers and enterprises in the aquaculture industryAquaculture producers and market organisations, trade unionsEU citizens and the public, consumersEU institutions and agenciesNational and regional authorities responsible for the aquaculture sectorNGOs active in the aquaculture sector and civil society organisationsUniversities, research centres, researchers, students
- Developed under (EU project)
- New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in Atlantic Area (Acess2Sea)
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