Shrimp Sentience Research: A Prioritization Guide

This report discusses the state of the art of shrimp sentience, with a focus on how we actually study sentience criteria in shrimps, and which ones we should focus on to reduce our uncertainties.

The intention was to get an understanding of which of Birch's Sentience Criteria should be prioritised. Additionally, the report highlights how much studying shrimp sentience costs and how difficult it is and isn’t.

Despite its focus on whiteleg shrimps, the findings of the report (i.e. which criteria to focus on first and why) can be extrapolated to other sentience candidates, providing a framework for systematically reducing our uncertainties for other animals at the edge of sentience.