Risk assessment on reduced animal welfare by marking and tracking of farmed fish and fish for cultivation

According to the NFSA, farmed fish escaping from sea-cage aquaculture may constitute serious environmental damage, foremost by interbreeding with wild fish. Governmental management is aiming at preventing the escape of farmed fish and to remove escapees. In order to facilitate these actions, the responsible farm needs to be identified. Mandatory marking of fish in the fish farming industry has therefore become a political ambition.NO; en; vkm@vkm.n