Journal Article

Global seafood consumption footprint

Carvalho, Natacha, Guillen, Jordi, Zanzi, Antonella, Casey, John, Hofherr, Johann, Martinsohn, Jann Th, Natale, Fabrizio, Fiore, Gianluca, Gibin, Maurizio, Druon, Jean-Noël

2019

Overview

To ensure food security and nutritional quality for a growing world population in the face of climate change, stagnant capture fisheries production, increasing aquaculture production and competition for natural resources, countries must be accountable for what they consume rather than what they produce. To investigate the sustainability of seafood consumption, we propose a methodology to examine the impact of seafood supply chains across national boundaries: the seafood consumption footprint. The seafood consumption footprint is expressed as the biomass of domestic and imported seafood production required to satisfy national seafood consumption, and is estimated using a multi-regional input output model. Thus, we reconstruct for the first time the global fish biomass flows in national supply chains to estimate consumption footprints at the global, country and sector levels (capture fisheries, aquaculture, distribution and processing, and reduction into fishmeal and fish oil) taking into account the biomass supply from beyond national borders.

• Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media,Springer Netherlands,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Aquaculture / Aquaculture products / Atmospheric Sciences / Biomass / Borders / Boundaries / Climate change / Consumption / Earth and Environmental Science / Ecology / Environment / Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology / Environmental Management / Fish / fish meal / Fish oils / Fisheries / Fishing / Food consumption / Food quality / Food security / Footprints / Input output / Natural resources / Nutritive value / Oils & fats / Physical Geography / Production / RESEARCH ARTICLE / Seafood / seafood consumption / seafoods / Supply / supply chain / Supply chains / World population