03/07/2026
AI Moving into Sustainable Shrimp Production!
HÅVA, Welfare Footprint Institute and Shrimp Welfare Project Sign MoU to Explore AI-Assisted Shrimp Welfare Monitoring
HÅVA, the Welfare Footprint Institute (WFI), and the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a framework for exploring how artificial intelligence, computer vision, and data-driven monitoring could help assess shrimp welfare in production settings.
The collaboration brings together complementary areas of experience. HÅVA contributes practical knowledge of sustainable shrimp production and technology development. WFI contributes scientific expertise in methods for assessing and quantifying animal welfare. SWP contributes expertise in shrimp welfare and engagement with producers and other stakeholders.
Initial activities are expected to focus on examining candidate welfare indicators and evaluating the feasibility, reliability, and limitations of potential monitoring approaches.
“This collaboration creates an opportunity to examine how emerging monitoring technologies might contribute to a better understanding of shrimp welfare in production settings,” said Matilda Olstorpe, Associate Professor and Founder of HÅVA. “By bringing together practical, scientific, and animal-welfare expertise, we hope to identify and evaluate feasible welfare monitoring approaches and clarify both the potential and the limitations of these technologies.”