Farmed fish are submitted to many stressors that have an important impact on their health and can even lead to their premature death. The COPEWELL project has tried to help fish farmers cope with this issue by developing methods that will allow them to better understand how fish experience their surrounding environment.
The EU-funded COPEWELL (A new integrative framework for the study of fish welfare based on the concepts of allostasis, appraisal and coping styles) project was completed in December 2015, although the project team intends to keep publishing papers in 2016. Their main objective, which consisted in providing a better understanding of the physiology, biology and behaviour of fish, their underpinning mechanisms and the way in which coping styles emerge, has largely been achieved.
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