Climate assessment for farmed salmon

Climate awareness is a growing issue worldwide and agriculture and aquaculture need to acknowledge their responsibilities towards this. To test the CO2output from aquaculture, a life cycle assessment study was carried out by the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK). By Emmy Koeleman The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was commissioned by fish feed producer Skretting and looked at the total carbon dioxide emission from farm to fork. The study involved salmon farmed in Norway and shipp