Technologies under development today will shape aquaculture welfare over the next decade. Understanding this trajectory reveals where investment can drive most improvement.
The technological trajectory of aquaculture over the next decade offers genuine welfare promise - but only if welfare is explicitly built into technology development goals. Monitoring systems, genetics, and production technologies developed with welfare as a design criterion, rather than retrofitted afterward, will produce the most significant improvements. Advocacy that shapes technology development priorities is as important as advocating for current practice change.