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Hydroxyapatite (HA) derived from salmon bone byproducts is used as a green support for the nanostructured nickel catalysts applied in the methanation of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Undoped nickel catalysts and various ceria-doped nickel supported on hydroxyapatite (HA) were prepared by coimpregnation. Characteristics of the as-prepared catalysts were investigated by the various techniques, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), hydrogen temperature-programmed reduction (H 2 -TPR), carbon dioxide temperature-programmed desorption (CO 2 -TPD), and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The catalyst activity was assessed throughout CO 2 methanation in the low-temperature range of 225-350 °C with the molar ratio of H 2 /CO 2 = 4/1. The function of HA and ceria provided a high dispersity of nickel particles over the catalyst surface with the size range of 24.5-25.8 nm, leading to improvement in the reduction and CO 2 adsorption capacity of the catalysts as well as enhancing the catalytic efficiency in CO 2 methanation. The 10Ni/HA catalyst reduced at suitable conditions of 400 °C for 2 h showed the highest catalytic performance among the tested catalysts. CO 2 conversion and CH 4 selectivity reached 76.6 and 100% at a reaction temperature of 350 °C, respectively. The results show that the Ni/HA sample doped with 6.0 wt % ceria was the best, with the CO 2 conversion and the CH 4 selectivity reaching 92.5% and 100%, respectively, at a reaction temperature of 325 °C., Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing financial interest., (© 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.)