Impact categories for life cycle assessment research of seafood production systems: Review and prospectus

Pelletier, Nathan; Ayer, Nathan W.; Tyedmers, Peter; Kruse, Sarah A.; Flysjö, Anna; Robillard, Greg; Ziegler, Friederike; Scholz, Astrid; Sonesson, Ulf

doi:10.1065/lca2006.09.275

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“…ISO-compliant life cycle assessment methodology (8,9) was used to evaluate the cumulative energy use (MJ), biotic resource use (net primary productivity as measured in C) (23), and greenhouse gas (CO 2 -e), acidifying (SO 2 -e), and eutrophying (PO 4 -e) emissions associated with the cradleto-farm-gate production of Atlantic salmon in Norway, the UK, Chile, and British Columbia, Canada (hereafter simply Canada). The system boundaries of our analysis appear in Figure 1.…”

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Not All Salmon Are Created Equal: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Global Salmon Farming Systems

Pelletier

Tyedmers

Sonesson

et al. 2009

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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We present a global-scale life cycle assessment of a major food commodity, farmed salmon. Specifically, we report the cumulative energy use, biotic resource use, and greenhouse gas, acidifying, and eutrophying emissions associated with producing farmed salmon in Norway, the UK, British Columbia (Canada), and Chile, as well as a production-weighted global average. We found marked differences in the nature and quantity of material/energy resource use and associated emissions per unit production across regions. This suggests significant scope for improved environmental performance in the industry as a whole. We identify key leverage points for improving performance, most notably the critical importance of least-environmental cost feed sourcing patterns and continued improvements in feed conversion efficiency. Overall, impacts were lowest for Norwegian production in most impact categories, and highest for UK farmed salmon. Our results are of direct relevance to industry, policy makers, eco-labeling programs, and consumers seeking to further sustainability objectives in salmon aquaculture.

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Not All Salmon Are Created Equal: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Global Salmon Farming Systems

Pelletier

Tyedmers

Sonesson

et al. 2009

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…These findings have recently fueled the debate around the environmental evaluation of fishing systems (Pelletier et al 2007;Ford et al 2012;Vázquez-Rowe et al 2012a). In fact, until recent years environmental indicators in fisheries were limited to evaluating the stock of a particular species or group of species, focusing on the direct impacts of biomass removal from fisheries (Udo de Haes et al 2002;Langlois 2012).…”

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“…In fact, until recent years environmental indicators in fisheries were limited to evaluating the stock of a particular species or group of species, focusing on the direct impacts of biomass removal from fisheries (Udo de Haes et al 2002;Langlois 2012). However, the development of a series of environmental management tools in the past few years has increased the environmental aspects that are examined in these production systems, such as climate change, ozone depletion, eco-toxicity, or eutrophication (Pelletier et al 2007). …”

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“…An internationally standardized methodology, named life cycle assessment (LCA), has become one of the most common tools for assessing the environmental profile of fishing fleets (Pelletier et al 2007;Vázquez-Rowe et al 2012a;Avadí and Fréon 2013). This methodology evaluates the environmental burdens linked to a certain process, service or product from a life cycle perspective (ISO 2006).…”

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Edible Protein Energy Return on Investment Ratio (ep-EROI) for Spanish Seafood Products

Vázquez‐Rowe

Villanueva-Rey

Moreira

et al. 2013

AMBIO

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Life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed into a useful methodology to assess energy consumption of fishing fleets and their derived seafood products, as well as the associated environmental burdens. In this study, however, the life cycle inventory data is used to provide a dimensionless ratio between energy inputs and the energy provided by the fish: the edible protein energy return on investment (ep-EROI). The main objective was to perform a critical comparison of seafood products landed in Galicia (NW Spain) in terms of ep-EROI. The combination of energy return on investment (EROI) with LCA, the latter having standardized mechanisms regarding data acquisition and system boundary delimitation, allowed a reduction of uncertainties in EROI estimations. Results allow a deeper understanding of the energy efficiency in the Galician fishing sector, showing that small pelagic species present the highest ep-EROI values if captured using specific fishing techniques. Finally, results are expected to provide useful guidelines for policy support in the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.

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“…Impact categories commonly are global warming, acidification, eutrophication, photochemical oxidant formation, aquatic/terrestrial ecotoxicity, human toxicity, energy use, abiotic resource use, biotic resource use, and ozone depletion [4]. Among these impact categories, global warming, eutrophication and acidification have been selected in this study since the emission of CO2, SO2, and NOx resulting from the life cycle of a fresh fish product that was examined in this study relates to them.…”

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Life cycle assessment of fresh fish product in various scale of capture fisheries facilities

Fatehah¹,

Suwondo²,

Guritno³

et al. 2016

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Impact categories for life cycle assessment research of seafood production systems: Review and prospectus

Cited by 125 publications

References 54 publications

Not All Salmon Are Created Equal: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Global Salmon Farming Systems

Not All Salmon Are Created Equal: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Global Salmon Farming Systems

Edible Protein Energy Return on Investment Ratio (ep-EROI) for Spanish Seafood Products

Life cycle assessment of fresh fish product in various scale of capture fisheries facilities

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