![]() Animal Welfare Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith said: Instead, it is designed to ensure animal welfare is well considered in future decision-making. There will be no direct impact on the shellfish catching or restaurant industry. Today’s announcement will not affect any existing legislation or industry practices such as fishing. However, unlike some other invertebrates (animals without a backbone ), decapod crustaceans and cephalopods have complex central nervous systems, one of the key hallmarks of sentience. The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill already recognises all animals with a backbone (vertebrates) as sentient beings. The move follows the findings of a government-commissioned independent review by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) which concluded there is strong scientific evidence decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs are sentient. The scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill has today been extended to recognise lobsters, octopus and crabs and all other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs as sentient beings.
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