The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.


Nitrogen emissions from farmed salmon production

Atmospheric & Biogeochemical CyclesAgriculture

This quantity is a single measurement of the quantity at a given point in time (2021).

Value:

This is equivalent to...

≈ 0.1 - 0.12 kg N/ kg

HuID: 44545
Relevant Year(s): 2021
Summary: Nitrogen emissions from farmed salmon production. Most emissions come from the production of feed.
Method: This value comes from a compilation of life cycle analysis studies. They used hierarchical Bayesian modeling to estimate both off-farm and on-farm stressors at the species level and used global production values to obtain means for taxonomic groups. The upper and lower bounds reported represent 50% of the width of the distribution of the parameter obtained from Bayesian modeling.
Source: Gephart, J.A., et al. Environmental performance of blue foods. Nature (2021)
Dataset: Estimated environmental stressors for various aquatic foods (Gephart2021_fig_1_data.csv)
global resolution
Original Data License: No Stated Copyright - Contact authors directly
Added By: rbanks