Fish Welfare Online Course

DAY 1: Monday, 1st February 2021

8:30-9:00 – Welcoming and Instructions for online-course

SESSION 1. SENTIENCE, PAIN AND MENTAL WELFARE 9:00-10:00 - Lynne Sneddon (UK). Sentience and pain. Where are we now?

10:00-11:00 - Leonor Galhardo (PT). Cognition and mental aspect of welfare

11:00-12:00 – One hour break

SESSION 2. STRESS, PHYSIOLOGY AND WELFARE 12:00-13:00 - Marco Vindas (NO). Brain, neural function and welfare

13:00-14:00 - Lluis Tort (SP). Neuro-immuno-endocrinology of stressed fish and welfare

14:00-15:00 - One hour break 15:00-16:00 - Peter Hubbard (PT). Sensory mechanisms & Electrophysiology

16:00-17:00 - Pedro Guerreiro (PT). Methods to assess physiological stress

DAY 2: Tuesday, 2nd February 2021

SESSION 3. APPLIED BIOLOGY AND WELFARE (part I)

9:00-10:00 - João Saraiva (PT). Applied ethology and welfare (1H)

10:00-11:00 – Fco. Javier Sánchez Vázquez(SP). Chronobiology and fish welfare 11:00-12:00 – One hour break

12:00-13:00 - Marie Laure Begout (FR). Assessing behaviour and welfare of farmed fish 13:00-14:00 - Neil Duncan (SP) Fish reproduction and breeding programs

14:00-15:00 - One hour break

15:00-16:00 - Cláudia Aragão (PT). Fish nutrition, health and welfare

16:00-17:00 - Francesc Padrós (SP). Fish pathology and welfare

DAY 3: Wednesday, 3rd February 2021

SESSION 3. APPLIED BIOLOGY AND WELFARE (part II)

9:00-10:00 - Juan Miguel Mancera (SP). Anesthesia, euthanasia, relaxation in fish 10:00-11:00 - Jeff Lines (UK). Stunning and Slaughtering 11:00-12:00 – One hour break

SESSION 4. OPERATIONAL WELFARE TOOLS AND INDICATORS

12:00-13:00 - Pablo Arechavala-Lopez (PT). Environmental enrichment and welfare 13:00-14:00 - Martin Føre (NO). Precision fish farming

14:00-15:00 - One hour break

15:00-16:00 - Chris Noble or Jelena Kolarevic (NO). OWIs on salmonids

16:00-17:00 - Tommasso Petochi (IT). OWIs on non-salmonids

DAY 4: Thursday, 4th February 2021

SESSION 5. WELFARE CERTIFICATIONS AND POLICY

9:00-10:00 – M. Filipa Castanheira (PT). Certification and evaluation of welfare 10:00-11:00 - Ana Roque (SP). European legislation on welfare of fish experimentation

11:00-12:00 – One hour break

12:00-13:00 - Marita Giménez-Candela (SP). Animal law and fish welfare (1H)

13:00-14:00- Wrap up + FAQs about the course (i.e. practical exercises)

Note: After theorical part (talks), each attendance must complete some practical exercises (e.g. questionnaire) to demonstrate the knowledge acquired during the course and to be evaluated by the organizing comitee. This practical part will take about 8 hours (20 mins from each talk) and can be accomplished during the following weeks after the course.