Technology is transforming the ability to monitor and improve welfare in aquaculture systems. Sensor networks, computer vision, and AI are creating opportunities for unprecedented welfare oversight.
Aquaculture welfare technology represents a genuine opportunity to improve welfare at scale. The challenge in fish farming has always been that individual fish are nearly impossible to monitor manually in large sea cages containing hundreds of thousands of animals. Technology that enables real-time behavioural monitoring, early disease detection, and precise environmental management can deliver welfare improvements that were previously impossible. The industry has strong incentives to adopt these technologies because welfare and productivity are so closely correlated in fish farming.