The removal effect of phosphate by sludge from wastewaters prior to discharge into natural waters is an essential measure to prevent eutrophication in receiving waters. There is need for developing low cost, easily and abundantly available, efficient adsorbents for the removal of phosphorus (P as orthophosphate) during the tertiary treatment of wastewaters. The adsorbent carbon which is prepared with fisheries wastes on a laboratory scale has been used to evaluate its performance for phosphate adsorption. Phosphate removal increase with increasing adsorbent dose and temperature, but shows no changes at an adsorbent dose over 8 g/l.