Experimental otter trawling on a sandy bottom ecosystem of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland: Analysis of trawl bycatch and effects on epifauna

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 181, Issue , 1999, Pages 107-124

  Prena, Jens ^a   Schwinghamer, Peter ^b   Rowell, Terence W ^a   Gordon Jr , Donald C ^a   Gilkinson, Kent D ^b   Vass, W Peter ^a   McKeown, David L ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Epibenthic organisms; Grand Banks; Marine biodiversity; Mobile fishing gear impacts; Otter trawling

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EPIFAUNA; MAMMAL; TRAWLING;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND;

ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; ASTARTE BOREALIS; CARNIVORA; CHIONOECETES OPILIO; CLINOCARDIUM; CLINOCARDIUM CILIA; CLYPEASTEROIDA; CYCLOCARDIA NOVANGLIAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINARACHNIUS PARMA; ECHINOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; GERSEMIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MARGARITES SORDIDUS; MOLLUSCA; OPHIURA SARSI; OPHIUROIDEA; OPILIO; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PALLIDUS;

EID: 0033580688     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps181107     Document Type: Article

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