Products

Product CO2e / kg Studies

Salmon (farmed)

3.684
CO2e / kg
= 100 g of Salmon (farmed)
You can consume
0.73
kg of Salmon (farmed) to exhaust your daily CO2e food budget

Categories: Salmon | Fish | Sea food | Food

Subcategories: Salmon (farmed, canned)

Studies

Source Notes CO2e Country origin Country consumption Weight
Seafood carbon emissions tool Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), Farmed, System: Raceway, Notes: Fewer studies have been undertaken on flow-through or raceway systems to produce Atlantic salmon than marine net pens. Energy production plays a much larger role in these systems, particularly if electricity is being generated from fossil fuels. Only one study has provided energy use data specific to Atlantic salmon flow-through systems.
5.3
 Unknown Unknown 6
Seafood carbon emissions tool Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), Farmed, System: Marine net pen, Notes: Numerous studies of Atlantic salmon marine net pen production have been published, which consistently show feed production to account for the majority of emissions. Energy use rates were estimated from 13 sources. Estimates here are similar to those produced for global Atlantic salmon production by Pelletier et al. (2009).
2.25
 Unknown Unknown 6
Seafood carbon emissions tool Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), Farmed, System: Recirculating tanks, Notes: Fewer studies have been undertaken on recirculating systems to produce Atlantic salmon than marine net pens. Energy production plays a much larger role in these systems, particularly if electricity is being generated from fossil fuels. Two studies have provided data for Atlantic salmon recirculating systems.
3.55
 Unknown Unknown 6
RIVM Database Milieubelasting Voedingsmiddelen Zalmfilet, kweekvis
6.881
 Unknown Netherlands 5
Carbon footprint and energy use of Norwegian seafood products Table 5.1: Chain 6, Fresh fillet from Norway to France
2.5
 Norway France 8
Not All Salmon Are Created Equal: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Global Salmon Farming Systems Table 2. Weighted average calculated using 2007 production volumes of 626, 386, 132, and 102 kilotonnes live weight for Norway, Chile, the UK, and Canada, respectively.
Norway: 1.79
Chile: 2.30
Canada: 2.37
UK: 3.27
2.16
 Unknown Unknown 10
Environmental analysis of the Norwegian fishery and aquaculture industry—A preliminary study focusing on farmed salmon Table 5
3.0
 Norway France 10
Milieueffecten van enkele populaire vissoorten mei 2009 definitieve versie Fig. 13
2.2
 Norway Netherlands 8
Den store klimadatabase Salmon, atlantic, aquaculture, Agriculture: 0, iLUC: 1.1, Food processing: 7.71, Packaging: 0.14, Transport: 0.16
9.11
 Unknown Unknown 5