Campaigners are calling for a change in the law to protect farmed fish during slaughter. Artist Isabella Cotier has created a travelling mural, which highlights the suffering of farmed fish.
Two images appear on the mural - one of people sleeping on a giant fish, and another of three figures drinking tea underwater inside a sea cage, used for fish farming. The art installation will be revealed at Parliament Square Westminster on Tuesday in support of The Humane League UK’s Forgotten Fish campaign.
It hopes to persuade the Government to give farmed fish detailed protections at slaughter like other farmed animals. Fish are the second most farmed animal in the country after chickens, with up to 86 million slaughtered each year - more than pigs, cows, sheep, turkeys and ducks combined. The major species farmed in the UK are rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon.
