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Benthic Indicators for Monitoring Bottom‐Trawl Fishing Impacts [PDF]

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
There is increasing interest in developing indicators to assess the state of benthic communities in shelf seas primarily affected by bottom trawling. Yet, many indicators have been developed in specific geographic regions making it difficult to determine their broader applicability.
P. Daniël van Denderen, Maider Plaza‐Morlote, Sandrine Vaz, José M. González‐Irusta, Ana García‐Alegre, Gert Van Hoey, Sebastian Valanko   +6 more
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Risk Assessment of Fishing Trawl Activities to Subsea Pipelines of Sabah and Labuan Waters

The Scientific World Journal, 2020
Introduction. Trawling is a method of catching fish in a large volume where fish nets are pulled through water using one or two boats. Bottom trawling is where the nets are pulled over on the seabed.
Ahmad Faizal Ahmad Fuad, Mohd Hafizi Said, Khalid Samo, Mohd Asamudin A. Rahman, Mohd Hairil Mohd, Ismail Zainol   +5 more
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Organic matter contents and degradation in a highly trawled area during fresh particle inputs (Gulf of Castellammare, southwestern Mediterranean) [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2019
Bottom trawling in the deep sea is one of the main drivers of sediment resuspension, eroding the seafloor and altering the content and composition of sedimentary organic matter (OM). The physical and biogeochemical impacts of bottom trawling were studied
S. Paradis, A. Pusceddu, P. Masqué, P. Masqué, P. Masqué, P. Masqué, P. Puig, D. Moccia, T. Russo, C. Lo Iacono, C. Lo Iacono   +10 more
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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rivers act as vital arteries to the world's oceans, delivering fresh water and nutrients that sustain marine ecosystems. Globally, river flow increasingly is being altered by climate change and anthropogenic pressures; yet the significance of rivers to predatory marine species, such as seabirds, and the extent to which river‐related changes ...
Julia B. Morais, Andre Chiaradia, Richard D. Reina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecosystem Functioning Under the Influence of Bottom-Trawling Disturbance: An Experimental Approach and Field Observations From a Continental Slope Area in the West Iberian Margin

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Understanding the effects of bottom-trawling induced changes in benthic community structure, diversity and ecosystem functioning across different benthic-size components is imperative to determine the future sustainability of bottom-trawling fisheries in
Sofia P. Ramalho, Sofia P. Ramalho, Lidia Lins, Karline Soetaert, Nikolaos Lampadariou, Marina R. Cunha, Ann Vanreusel, Ellen Pape   +7 more
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Comparing environmental metabarcoding and trawling survey of demersal fish communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

Environmental DNA, 2021
Biodiversity assessment is an important part of conservation management that ideally can be accomplished with noninvasive methods without influencing the structure and functioning of ecosystems.
Seyedeh Fatemeh Afzali, Hugo Bourdages, Martin Laporte, Claire Mérot, Eric Normandeau, Céline Audet, Louis Bernatchez   +6 more
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The effect of autotrawl systems on the performance of a survey trawl [PDF]

, 2006
Three aspects of a survey bottom trawl performance—1) trawl geometry (i.e., net spread, door spread, and headrope height); 2) footrope distance off-bottom; and 3) bridle distance off-bottom—were compared among hauls by using either of two autotrawl ...
Kotwicki, Stan, Somerton, David A., Weinberg, Kenneth L.   +2 more
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Trends in marine species distribution models: a review of methodological advances and future challenges

Ecography, EarlyView.
Correlative species distribution models (SDMs) are quantitative tools in biogeography and macroecology. Building upon the ecological niche concept, they correlate environmental covariates to species presence to model habitat suitability and predict species distributions.
Moritz Klaassen, Tiago A. Marques, Filipe Alves, Marc Fernandez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trawling in the Mediterranean: An Exploration of Empirical Relations Connecting Fishing Gears, Otterboards and Propulsive Characteristics of Fishing Vessels

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Fishing pressure is often expressed in terms of a vessels physical attributes, like tonnage and engine power, while a common definition of fishing capacity identifies vessel size as a convenient proxy for the size of the gear used.
Antonello Sala, Antonello Sala, Emilio Notti, Sara Bonanomi, Jacopo Pulcinella, Alessandro Colombelli   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source