Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

The shift of phosphorus transfers in global fisheries and aquaculture

  • Yuanyuan Huang,
  • Phillipe Ciais,
  • Daniel S. Goll,
  • Jordi Sardans,
  • Josep Peñuelas,
  • Fabio Cresto-Aleina,
  • Haicheng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14242-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Despite growing aquaculture production and environmental concerns on phosphorus (P) enrichment, the P budgets of fisheries have been largely overlooked. Here, Huang et al. calculate global fishery P budgets and estimate P use efficiency for a wide range of aquaculture systems.