Killer funding: Humane Slaughter Association awards £2 million to projects that aim to improve the welfare of fish, crustaceans and cephalopods

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Killer funding: Humane Slaughter Association awards £2 million to projects that aim to improve the welfare of fish, crustaceans and cephalopods

2 March 2020
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The Humane Slaughter Association has awarded £1.93 million for R&D projects, in what marks its largest ever programme of research in an attempt to find more humane ways of slaughtering these animals in future.

The funding, made possible by a generous donation, has been awarded to three separate consortia, which will each be focusing on a specific area – humane stunning of selected farmed finfish, led by Ace Aquatec; stunning and killing commercial species of crabs and lobsters, led by Nofima; and humane slaughter of cephalopods led by the Association for Cephalopod Research, CephRes).