Epileptic insult followed by ceased opercular ventilation and lack of eye rolling. Although the different stunning methods and their effect on welfare and flesh quality are fairly documenter, the practical knowledge and documentation of how the present stunning and slaughter methods affect thr fish welfare and the quality parameters in both raw and smoked products through large/commercial scale experiments are scarce. The need for large scale experiments is required to reveal a more realistic relationship between slaughter methods and product quality as there might be a discrepancy between the experimental