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Since 2014, Coefficient has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in scientific research, supporting pioneering projects in computational protein design, malaria elimination, AI safety, and advanced approaches to preventing future pandemics. They believe there is a significant opportunity to advance fish welfare during slaughter. Each year, more than 100 billion farmed fish are slaughtered, yet only a small fraction—primarily salmon—are consistently rendered unconscious before slaughter through electrical or percussive stunning. Conditions are even more concerning for the over one trillion wild-caught fish, which are typically left to die from suffocation in air or in low-oxygen holding tanks, with few welfare safeguards in place.

 

$7,000,000 (Honorarium: Applicants whose submissions meet a minimum standard (or rank among the top 125, whichever comes first) will receive a $4,000 honorarium. (Honorarium payments are subject to eligibility under applicable law and completion of any required due diligence/compliance screening)

 

The funder is looking for innovative technologies and prototypes that significantly improve fish welfare during capture and slaughter by ensuring fish become immediately unconscious, remain insensible until death, and that the process is reliable, measurable, and scalable.

Priority areas include:

1. Practical solutions for use on fishing vessels with limited space and power.
2. Methods suitable for large-scale capture of small wild fish.
3. New approaches or improvements to existing electrical stunning systems used in aquaculture.
4. Pre-slaughter interventions that enhance fish welfare, even if they do not involve stunning, provided they have the potential to benefit hundreds of millions of fish.