Wasted seafood in the United States: Quantifying loss from production to consumption and moving toward solutions

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 116-124

  Love, Dave C ^a,b   Fry, Jillian P ^a,b   Milli, Michael C ^a   Neff, Roni A ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Bycatch; Fisheries; Food loss; Food systems; Food waste; Nutrition; Seafood; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE EFFLUENT; BYCATCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; POPULATION GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUSE; RISK FACTOR; SEAFOOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941066062     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.08.013     Document Type: Article

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