{"id":755362,"date":"2018-11-25T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755362"},"modified":"2018-11-25T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T13:37:40","slug":"aquatic-animal-welfare-exploring-the-scientific-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755362","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Animal Welfare: Exploring The Scientific Basis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>We are moving toward a future where human use of all aquatic animals will be far more restrictive in the world\u2019s most affluent countries, at the very least.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quote-author-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ARK_Center.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"quote-author-name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEditor \t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"quote-author-job\">The ARK Center<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LUKAS JASIUNAS:<\/strong><em> &#8216;In the European Union, regulations don\u2019t safeguard the well-being of aquatic animals in areas such as commercial and recreational fishing, aquaculture, and ornamental fish keeping, nor do they protect free-living animals in the wild. In fact, they only apply to animals that are classified as sentient, even though the term is not clearly defined in the EU regulations&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Nonetheless, some researchers propose that all animals may be sentient&#8230; This would mean ensuring the same level of protection we currently give to other sentient animals&#8230; We are moving toward a future where human use of all aquatic animals will be far more restrictive in the world\u2019s most affluent countries, at the very least&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/faunalytics.org\/aquatic-animal-welfare-exploring-the-scientific-basis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-mzvFxfFCQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUKAS JASIUNAS: &#8216;In the European Union, regulations don\u2019t safeguard the well-being of aquatic animals in areas such as commercial and recreational fishing, aquaculture, and ornamental fish keeping, nor do they protect free-living animals in the wild. In fact, they only apply to animals that are classified as sentient, even though the term is not clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,24,25],"tags":[30,35,36],"class_list":["post-755362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-science","category-welfare","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-sentience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755364,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755362\/revisions\/755364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}