“In the last couple of decades, research on fish pain has expanded, and it’s become understood that fish have nociceptors, sensory neurons that respond to damaging or threatening stimuli. The late Victoria Braithwaite, one of those University of Edinburgh researchers, told Hakai magazine that fish pain is “likely different from what humans feel, but it is still a kind of pain.”” (Kenny Torella, Spark | the Next Frontier for Animal Welfare: Fish)