Among other ingredients (like cilantro, cabbage, lime, and scotch bonnet mango salsa), the fish in his taco is called Mahi Mahi. This species of fish is seen below in the second image, it's a bright green/yellow fish typically found in tropical to subtropical ocean waters. Before being caught in the ocean, the Mahi Mahi ate a variety of other fish species, including triggerfish (the orange/black/blue fish below in the middle). The diet of triggerfish often includes shrimp (being shrimpy below, to the right of the triggerfish), and shrimp spend their days eating photosynthesizers such as algae and phytoplankton (right-most image is a satellite image of phytoplankton in the ocean).
When Professor Haggerty eats this Mahi Mahi fish taco, how much of the phytoplankton NPP will appear as biomass in Professor Haggerty's trophic level?
a. 100%
b. 90%
c. 10%
d. 1%
e. 0.1%
f. 0.01%
g. 0.001%
h. 0.0001%