Table 5.
General and specific WOAH (20) and EFSA recommendations (12–19) on stunning/killing methods of farmed fish for human consumption.
| Percussion | Electric | Spiking or coring | Asphyxia in air or ice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free bullet | CO2 | |||||||
| WOAH | EFSA | WOAH | EFSA | WOAH | EFSA | WOAH | EFSA | |
| General considerations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Rainbow trout | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Eel | ✗ | * | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Carp | ✓ | * | ✓ | * | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Seabream—Seabass | n/a | n/a | n/a | * | n/a | ✗ | n/a | ✗ |
| Turbot | n/a | * | n/a | * | n/a | ✗ | n/a | ✗ |
| Atlantic Salmon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Other salmonids | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tuna | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
✓, recommended/acceptable method; ✗, not recommended method; *, recommended/acceptable method which requires further studies on this species; n/a., species-specific recommendations not available.