How does captivity shape fish behaviour, performance, and welfare? 

Drawing on experience from Mediterranean aquaculture, research on fish learning and brain gene expression, and PhD trials on fish domestication, this seminar explores individual cognitive variation and phenotypic shifts across generations. These empirical insights are connected to key challenges in modern fish welfare research, such as assessing affective states and promoting positive welfare.

About the speaker

Emmanouil Diakos is a fish biologist and ethologist who specialises in experimental phenotyping, fish behaviour and quantitative genetics. He has worked as an ichthyologist in Mediterranean hatcheries and holds a PhD from the University of Lorraine.