Recently, there are growing calls for humane stunning to be implemented in fisheries. It aims to make the animal unconscious immediately, followed by a killing method before the animal recovers consciousness. Electrical stunning and percussive stunning are being used or tested in some fisheries, but the method needs to work for the species, animal size, catch volume, and vessel conditions.

This is still a major evidence and technology gap for wild capture fisheries due to many reasons, including the volume of fish that needs to be stunned at once, limited space on deck, and how to handle large numbers of moving, slippery animals safely and consistently. More commercial trials are needed, especially for high volume fisheries and small scale fisheries.