Products

Product CO2e / kg Studies

Mackerel

2.219
CO2e / kg
= 100 g of Mackerel
You can consume
1.22
kg of Mackerel to exhaust your daily CO2e food budget

Categories: Fish | Sea food | Food

Subcategories: Chub mackerel | Horse mackerel | Mackerel (smoked) | Mackerel (frozen) | Mackerel fillet

Studies

Source Notes CO2e Country origin Country consumption Weight
Seafood carbon emissions tool Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), Wild, System: Purse seine, Notes: Three studies have published fuel use data for Atlantic mackerel fisheries, with data from 2000-2011 consistently showing fuel consumption under 100 L/t for purse seiners. A longitudinal life cycle study was carried out in Spain in 2011 by Ramos and colleagues.
0.25
Unknown Unknown 6
Estimation of the carbon footprint of the Galician fishing activity (NW Spain) Table 3, Atlantic mackerel, Trawling
Seining: 0.58
0.55
Spain Spain 8
LCA Food Database Conventional, including retail
0.22
Unknown Unknown 3
Den store klimadatabase Mackerel, Agriculture: 0, iLUC: 1.11, Food processing: 7.71, Packaging: 0.14, Transport: 0.16
9.12
Unknown Unknown 5
Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories Table 5 Median; #LCA studies: 9; #GWP values: 21; Mean: 2; Stdev: 1.08; Min: 0.94; Max: 4.5
1.8
Unknown Unknown 8