Advanced technologies for autonomous health & welfare monitoring in aquaculture

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Advanced technologies for autonomous health & welfare monitoring in aquaculture The Government supports the production of healthy, high-welfare animals as part of the UK’s food system. Defra commissioned the Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) to provide advice and recommendations on the welfare implications of breeding and breeding technologies in commercial livestock agriculture, including aquaculture. During this work, AWC highlighted that there is significantly less known about what drives the behaviour of individual fish compared to terrestrial animals. They also concluded that technical advances in monitoring individuals in group settings combined with artificial intelligence have the potential to play an increasingly important role in animal welfare assessment, and the full potential of these approaches remains to be realised. Refer to the ITT Bidder Pack and Specification for detail