TY - JOUR
T1 - Geographical variation in the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis
AU - van der Schatte Olivier, Andrew
AU - Le Vay, Lewis
AU - Malham, Shelagh K.
AU - Christie, Michael
AU - Wilson, James
AU - Allender, Susan
AU - Schmidlin, Sarah
AU - Brewin, Jordan M.
AU - Jones, Laurence
N1 - Funding Information:
The lead author was funded by Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KESS 2), a pan-Wales higher level skills initiative led by Bangor University on behalf of the HE sector in Wales. It is part funded by the Welsh Government's European Social Fund (ESF) convergence programme for West Wales and the Valleys with additional support from Deepdock Ltd .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/6/1
Y1 - 2021/6/1
N2 - Shellfish farming contributes to nutrient removal in coastal and estuarine systems, as bivalves incorporate nutrients into their tissues and shells, which is removed from the marine system on harvest. Fourteen locations around the UK were surveyed to explore geographic variation in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus content of tissue and shell in blue mussels. Phosphorus in tissue had a significant negative relationship with mean annual seawater temperature for both rope and bottom cultured sites. Per tonne of live mussel, rope culture removed significantly more nitrogen (8.50 ± 0.59 kg) and phosphorus (0.95 ± 0.07 kg) than bottom cultured (5.00 ± 0.013 kg nitrogen and 0.43 ± 0.01 kg phosphorus). Bottom culture, however, provides significantly more C removal in shell (60.15 ± 0.77 kg) than in rope cultured (46.12 ± 1.69 kg). Further studies are required to examine the effect of growth rate, on the nitrogen and phosphorus remediation, and carbon stored in shell, of rope culture and bottom cultured mussel aquaculture.
AB - Shellfish farming contributes to nutrient removal in coastal and estuarine systems, as bivalves incorporate nutrients into their tissues and shells, which is removed from the marine system on harvest. Fourteen locations around the UK were surveyed to explore geographic variation in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus content of tissue and shell in blue mussels. Phosphorus in tissue had a significant negative relationship with mean annual seawater temperature for both rope and bottom cultured sites. Per tonne of live mussel, rope culture removed significantly more nitrogen (8.50 ± 0.59 kg) and phosphorus (0.95 ± 0.07 kg) than bottom cultured (5.00 ± 0.013 kg nitrogen and 0.43 ± 0.01 kg phosphorus). Bottom culture, however, provides significantly more C removal in shell (60.15 ± 0.77 kg) than in rope cultured (46.12 ± 1.69 kg). Further studies are required to examine the effect of growth rate, on the nitrogen and phosphorus remediation, and carbon stored in shell, of rope culture and bottom cultured mussel aquaculture.
KW - Bivalve aquaculture
KW - Bivalves
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Nutrient remediation
KW - Regulating services
KW - Shellfish
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104142117&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112291
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112291
M3 - Article
C2 - 33866205
AN - SCOPUS:85104142117
SN - 0025-326X
VL - 167
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
M1 - 112291
ER -
