Panel discussion on fish welfare chaired

Yesterday I chaired the panel discussion at the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014 (Dyreetikkonferansen 2014), with the theme "Fiskelykke" [fish happiness/welfare]. The panel discussion, which lasted for some 75 minutes, involved Aud Skrudland (The Norwegian Food Safety Authority), Tore Kristiansen (Norway's Institute of Marine Research), Henrik Stenwig (Norwegian Seafood Federation) and Susanna Lybæk (Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance), and contributions from the audience.

Ad for Norwegian animal ethics conference in fishing newspaper

The advertisement below for the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014 was published in a thematic supplement at the occasion of Nor-Fishing 2014 in today's edition of the Norwegian daily Fiskaren [The fisher].

Jonathan Balcombe to appear in video greeting to animal ethics conference

The video greeting at the opening of this year's Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, which has the theme "Fiskelykke" [Fish happiness/welfare] (Trondheim, August 20th), will be given by Jonathan Balcombe - see news story (in Norwegian), program and info on contributors at the conference website.

Website of Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference updated

A few days ago I updated the homepage of the annual conference series the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference (Dyreetikkonferansen). Specifically the following subpages were updated (all but one in Norwegian):

* Home

* Bidragsytere [Contributers]

* Om påmelding (2014) [On registration (2014)]

* Om konferansen [About the conference]

* Program [Program]

* Videoer [Videos]

* ENGLISH

Programme for Nor-Fishing 2014 including Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference released

The programme for the fishing fair Nor-Fishing 2014 (Trondheim, Norway, August 19-22) has been released - see here. The programme includes Dyreetikkonferansen 2014 [the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014] on Wednesday August 20th at 1-5 pm, with the theme "Fiskelykke" [Luck in fishing/fish happiness].

Metting on Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014 attended

Today I took part in a meeting of the organizing committee of the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014 (Dyreetikkonferansen 2014). Ahead of the meeting I had proposed a budget - the budget was revised slightly following the meeting. I am furthermore responsible for registration and related communications.

Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014 receives funding from Dag S. Stiansen's foundation

Minding Animals Norway has upon application received 40.000 NOK (ca. 5.000 EUR) from Dag S. Stiansen's foundation designated to the organising of the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference (Dyreetikkonferansen) 2014. The theme of this year's conference, which is the third in this annual conference series, is fish welfare/happiness (Fiskelykke).

This year's Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, which will take place in Trondheim Wednesday August 20th as part of the fair Nor-Fishing 2014, is organised by Norway's Council for Animal Ethics, University of Oslo's Centre for development and the environment (SUM, UiO), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Minding Animals Norway and Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL). The latter represents some 500 member companies.