Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the world’s continental shelves

O. Amoroso, Ricardo; Roland Pitcher, C.; Rijnsdorp, A.D.; A. McConnaughey, Robert; M. Parma, Ana; Suuronen, Petri; Ritzau Eigaard, Ole; Bastardie, François; T. Hintzen, Niels; Althaus, Franziska; Baird, Susan; Black, Jenny; Buhl‐Mortensen, Lene; B. Campbell, Alexander; Catarino, Rui; S. Collie, Jeremy; H. Cowan, James; Durholtz, Deon; Engstrom, Nadia; P. Fairweather, Tracey; O. Fock, Heino; B. Ford, Richard; Gálvez, Patricio; Gerritsen, H.D.; Eva Góngora, María; A. González, Jessica; Geert Hiddink, Jan; M. Hughes, Kathryn; S. Intelmann, Steven; Jenkins, Chris; Jönsson, Patrik; Kainge, Paulus; Kangas, Mervi; N. Kathena, Johannes; Kavadas, Stefanos; W. Leslie, R.; Lewis, Steve; Lundy, Mathieu; A. Makin, David; Martin, Julie; Mazor, Tessa; Gonzalez‐Mirelis, Genoveva; J. Newman, Stephen; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Posen, Paulette; Rochester, Wayne; Russo, Tommaso; Sala, Antonello; M. Semmens, Jayson; Silva, Cristina; Tsolos, A.; Vanelslander, Bart; B. Wakefield, Corey; Alexander Wood, Brent; Hilborn, Ray; J. Kaiser, Michel; Jennings, Simon

doi:10.1073/pnas.1802379115

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Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the world’s continental shelves

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Oct 8, 2018

Authors:

Ricardo O. Amoroso

C. Roland Pitcher

A.D. Rijnsdorp

Abstract

study area was trawled, and 86% was not trawled. Trawling activity was aggregated; the most intensively trawled areas accounting for 90% of activity comprised 77% of footprint on average. Regional swept area ratio (SAR; ratio of total swept area trawled annually to total area of region, a metric of ...

Subject

Continental shelf

Oceanography

Fishing

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