Effects of bottom fishing on the benthic megafauna of Georges Bank

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 155, Issue , 1997, Pages 159-172

  Collie, Jeremy S ^a   Escanero, Galo A ^a   Valentine, Page C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic communities; Fishing impacts; Habitat disturbance; Scallop dredging

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC COMMUNITY; BENTHIC MEGAFAUNA; BENTHOS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE;

ATLANTIC; GEORGES BANK;

BIVALVIA; BRYOZOA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINODERMATA; HYDROIDA; HYDROZOA; MOLLUSCA; OPHIUROIDEA; POGONOPHORA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 0030886905     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps155159     Document Type: Article

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