Scale Welfare

Around 4,000 fish are killed in industrial farms every second and 73-180 billion fish are being farmed at any given time. There’s an abundence of evidence that fish are sentient and experience pain, meaning that farmed fish are suffering at an unfathomable scale, particularly in Asia which farms 90% of the world’s farmed fish. This is twice the number of fish as there are land-based farmed animals worldwide.

Despite this enormous scale of suffering, farmed fish welfare receives virtually no attention or resources—especially in Asia where conditions are often severe and regulations minimal.

Scale Welfare is working to find solutions that actually work. We're conducting rigorous field studies in the Philippines and Vietnam to test multiple intervention approaches and identify the most scalable and cost-effective ways to improve farmed fish welfare.

Scale Welfare was incubated through Ambitious Impact's Charity Incubation Program, which helped us develop our evidence-based approach to this neglected cause area.

Our research will determine which interventions- whether farmer training, improved systems, or policy changes—can create the greatest impact. Once we identify what works, we'll pilot and scale these solutions to improve conditions for millions, potentially billions, of farmed fish.

Your donation helps us: conduct the research needed to identify effective solutions, support field studies testing different approaches, and build the groundwork for potentially scaling welfare improvements.