The Welfare of Fish / Animal Welfare Bd.20 (PDF)

Tore S. Kristiansen is an experienced leader at the Animal Welfare research group, Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway, and also heads the Norwegian National Committee for the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes. He completed his Master's and PhD in Fisheries Biology at the University of Bergen, Norway and subsequently became a researcher at the IMR, where he has focused on fish welfare research ever since. Having served as a project leader and coordinator of several national and European research projects concerning fish welfare, his expertise covers a broad range of areas, including population dynamics, stock enhancement, and juvenile production of Atlantic cod and lobster; behavior, cognition and learning ability of cod, halibut, and salmon; stress- and neurobiology, and the welfare of farmed fish.



Anders Fernö is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway. He started his academic studies at the University of Lund, Sweden and completed his PhD at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He became an Assistant Professor and later Professor at the University of Bergen and was also Adjunct Chief Scientist at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen. His research focuses on the behavior of marine and freshwater fish. His expertise covers a broad field including ontogeny and learning, spatio-temporal dynamics and schooling dynamics, with applications in the distribution of commercial fish species, fish capture, aquaculture, sea ranching, and welfare. Fernö has been member of the editorial board of Applied Animal Behaviour Science.



Michalis A. Pavlidis is a Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece. He received his M.Sc in Public Health from the School of Public Health and Hygiene, Athens and his PhD in Biology from the University of Athens, Greece. His fields of specialization include reproductive biology, pigmentation physiology,