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February 20, 2021 - University of Southampton

Fish poop helps remove 1.65 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere

New research has shown that carbon in feces, respiration, and other excretions from fishes make up about 16% of the total carbon that sinks below the ocean’s upper layers.

Ecosystems provide a huge range of benefits and services to humans – one of these is the extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and its burial either in sediments or in the deep ocean.

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