Mobile fishing gear reduces benthic megafaunal production on Georges Bank

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 260, Issue , 2003, Pages 97-108

  Hermsen, Jerome M ^a,c   Collie, Jeremy S ^a   Valentine, Page C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic communities; Benthic production; Fishing impacts; Habitat disturbance; Scallop dredging

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHING GEAR; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK;

ASTARTE; ASTARTIDAE; BIVALVIA; ECHINOIDEA; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS; MOLLUSCA; PECTINIDAE; PLACOPECTEN MAGELLANICUS; POLYCHAETA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS; THELEPUS CINCINNATUS;

EID: 0242370784     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps260097     Document Type: Article

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