Real-time environmental monitoring in salmon sea cages has advanced significantly, enabling welfare-relevant parameters to be tracked continuously and management decisions to be made proactively.
Real-time environmental monitoring enables salmon farmers to identify and respond to welfare-relevant conditions before they cause significant suffering. Early warning of thermal stress, low oxygen, or approaching algal blooms allows management responses that prevent or mitigate welfare impacts. The expanding deployment of these technologies represents a meaningful advance in salmon welfare management.