Together, we can make a meaningful difference for aquatic animals and our planet. This Giving Tuesday, November 28th, stand with us in our mission to reduce the suffering of aquatic animals caught in the global food system.

As the world confronts pressing issues like climate change, biodiversity loss, and ethical treatment of animals, businesses have a pivotal role to play in crafting solutions that contribute positively to sustainable development.

Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) has launched the second edition of the aquaculture certification benchmark tool that analyzes current welfare requirements within the primary farming standards of 7 global seafood certification schemes.

Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) proudly collaborated with the Animal and Vegan Advocacy Summit (AVA) organizing team over the past year, to curate two comprehensive sessions, exclusively focused on championing effective interventions to advocate for aquatic animals within the food system.

Leading up to the 2023 SDG Summit, we have published a new report on how aquatic animal welfare intertwines with multiple SDGs, highlighting ten priority areas where it can pave the way towards achieving a more sustainable and equitable world by 2030.

The 3rd UN Ocean Conference is a critical opportunity for the international community to recognize the urgency of the challenges facing the ocean and provide much-needed solutions.

Based on AVAAZ’s wildly successful petition to ban octopus farming, with now almost 1 million signatures, they commissioned Aquatic Life Institute to write a report that substantiates their call to action.

This year for World Oceans day, the Aquatic Animal Alliance is highlighting the importance of aquatic animal welfare interventions in ocean conservation.

5 June marks the 50th World Environment Day, and this year’s theme is ‘Solutions to Plastic Pollution.’ A major and often overlooked contributor to ocean plastic waste is marine capture fisheries.

In this document, Aquatic Life Institute will discuss potential threats to animal welfare, environmental degradation, biodiversity and public health that could occur as a result of octopus farming.

En este documento, Aquatic Life Institute analiza las posibles amenazas al bienestar animal, la degradación ambiental, la biodiversidad y la salud pública que podrían ocurrir como resultado de la cría de pulpos.

Interview on Fish Welfare with Jenny Canham from Animal Equality.

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity's 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) ended on December 19, 2022 in Montreal, Canada with the adoption of a groundbreaking biodiversity agreement.

A new scientific article, “Reimagining Sustainable Fisheries”, echoes what we at the Aquatic Life Institute have been urging: shift our current conception of what is considered “sustainable fisheries.”

Between November 9 and 15th, three team members from the Aquatic Life Institute attended COP27 in Egypt. This was dubbed as the first ‘food’ COP - the first time to have pavilions specifically dedicated to food systems.

The Aquatic Life Institute will be attending COP27 in November to call on global leaders to take aquatic animals and their welfare into consideration in climate change policy discussions.

We are excited to announce a new advancement for aquatic animals: Our work in best practices in capture fisheries welfare has been endorsed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) as part of the UN Ocean Decade Action!

Between August 23-36, one of the fishing sector’s biggest industry events took place in Trondheim, Norway. Our Head of Strategic Initiatives, Christine Xu, attended NorFishing.

Can cephalopods - octopus, cuttlefish, squid - be farmed sustainably? This seems to be the number one question asked after news surfaced regarding the establishment of Nueva Pescanova’s first commercialized octopus farm in Spain and a potential new Squid farming operation in Japan.

タコ、イカなどの頭足類は持続的な養殖ができるのかーこれは、ヌエバ・ペスカノバ社がスペインで最初の商業化されたタコ養殖場を設立し、日本で新しいイカ養殖事業の可能性があるというニュースが表面化した後、最も多く寄せられた質問のように思います。