Stunning and killing of edible crabs (Cancer )

Animal Welfare

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 287-294

  Roth, B ^a,b   Oines S ^a  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Edible crabs; Electricity; Killing edible crabs; Stunning; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CRAB; ELECTRIC FIELD; FREEZING; GANGLION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; CANCER PAGURUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 77955595965     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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