Theme Session M – ​Welfare conscious and sustainable fishing in the 21st century

<p dir="ltr"><i>12/02/2025: correction to text on page 3 and 4.</i><br><br><b>Book of abstracts of theme session M:</b></p><h3>Theme Session M – ​Welfare conscious and sustainable fishing in the 21st century</h3><h4>Conveners: Mike Breen (Norway), Hans van de Vis (Netherlands), Sven Sebastian Uhlmann (Belgium)</h4><ul><li>CM 687: Responsible catch welfare begins in the fishing gear – can on gear videography guide best practice?</li><li>CM 689: Animal welfare in Norwegian Atlantic mackerel purse seine fisheries</li><li>CM 712: A new way of designing fisheries management to support SDG 14: Life Below Water</li><li>CM 803: Exploring fish welfare in commercial fisheries: insights from the Carefish-Catch project</li><li>CM 805: Altruism, Information, and the Value of Traceability in Seafood</li><li>CM 822: GAME OF TRAWLS: Toward Fully Automated Intelligent Fishing</li><li>CM 843: Environmental Assessment of Scallop Innovation Gear (EASIG)</li><li>CM 844: Assessment of welfare in artisanal longline fisheries operating off the Southern Portuguese coast</li><li>CM 857: The untold stories of a systems thinking approach to fish meal industries of Mangalore</li><li>CM 884: Condition and survival of juvenile Australasian snapper (<i>Chrysophrys auratus</i>) captured in trawls using the Modular Harvesting System versus mesh codends</li><li>CM 910: Behaviour & welfare of mackerel & herring during capture in purse seine</li><li>CM 923: Investigating the effects of pelagic trawling on the welfare of Atlantic herring</li><li>CM 967: Welfare assessment in purse seine fisheries off the southern Portuguese coast</li><li>CM 1028: Are reflexes a reliable welfare indicator?</li><li>CM 1040: Welfare outcomes in a catch and release fishery: a case study of Atlantic bluefin tuna in UK waters</li><li>CM 1043: Best-practice in Atlantic bluefin tuna recreational fisheries in the north-east Atlantic: experience from catch and release tagging programmes in northern Europe</li><li>CM 1076: Fish welfare research in pelagic freezer trawler fisheries</li><li>CM 1084: Assessing fish welfare in commercial fixed-net fisheries off the southern Portuguese coast</li><li>CM 1120: Catch welfare in a live-delivery fishery in Norway for haddock</li><li>CM 1122: Catch Welfare Platform - Developing Innovations in Catch Welfare in Commercial Fisheries</li><li>CM 1147: Welfare Assessment of Octopus in Pots and Traps Fishery off the Southern Portuguese Coast</li><li>CM 1151: Review and Welfare Assessment of wild-caught aquatic Species – the fair-fish Database</li><li>CM 1175: Smartrawl: improving fish welfare through in-situ release of unwanted animals from a demersal trawl</li><li>CM 1177: Keep what you catch – fishers stress damages of deck-loading in a scallop fleet</li><li>CM 1210: An initial welfare mapping of the Norway lobster (<i>Nephrops norvegicus</i>) fishery and first approaches to the optimisation of stunning practices</li><li>CM 1221: Stunning and killing of captured plaice and turbot in one step</li></ul><p><br></p>