Effects of chronic bottom trawling disturbance on benthic biomass, production and size spectra in different habitats

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-103

  Queiros A M ^a   Hiddink, J G ^a   Kaiser, M J ^a   Hinz, H ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom trawling; Infauna; Secondary production; Size spectrum

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; BODY MASS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; SIZE STRUCTURE;

EID: 33744536525     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Amaro, T., 2005. The benthic shift of the Frisian Front (Southern North Sea) ecosystem - possible mechanisms. PhD thesis. Wageningen University, Wageningen.
2. Ball B., Munday B., and Tuck I. Effects of otter trawling on the benthos and environment in muddy sediments. In: Kaiser M.J., and De Groot S.J. (Eds). Effects of fishing on non-target species and habitats: biological conservation and socio-economic issues (2000), Blackwell Science, Oxford 69-82
3. Ball B.J., Fox G., and Munday B.W. Long- and short-term consequences of a Nephrops trawl fishery on the benthos and environment of the Irish Sea. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57 (2000) 1315-1320
4. Banse K., and Mosher S. Adult body mass and annual production/ biomass relationships of field populations. Ecol. Monogr. 50 (1980) 355-379
5. Benoît E., and Rochet M.J. A continuous model of biomass size spectra governed by predation and the effects of fishing on them. J. Theor. Biol. 226 (2004) 9-21
6. Bergman M.J.N., and Hup M. Direct effects of beam trawling on macrofauna in a sandy sediment in the southern North Sea. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 49 (1992) 5-11
7. Bergmann M., and Moore P.G. Mortality of Asterias rubens and Ophiura ophiura discarded in the Nephrops fishery of the Clyde Sea area, Scotland. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 58 (2001) 531-542
8. Bergman M.J.N., and van Santbrink J.W. Mortality in megafaunal benthic populations caused by trawl fisheries on the Dutch continental shelf in the North Sea in 1994. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57 (2000) 1321-1331
9. Bergmann M., Wieczorek S.K., Moore P.G., and Atkinson R.J.A. Utilisation of invertebrates discarded from the Nephrops fishery by variously selective benthic scavengers in the west of Scotland. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 233 (2002) 185-198
10. Brey T. Growth performance and mortality in aquatic macrobenthic invertebrates. Adv. Mar. Biol. 35 (1999) 153-223
11. Brey, T., 2001. Population dynamics in benthic invertebrates. A virtual handbook. Version 01.2. http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Benthic/Ecosystem/FoodWeb/Handbook /main.html. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany.
12. Clarke K.R., and Warwick R.M. Change in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation. Plymouth Marine Laboratory (1994), Natural Environment Research Council, UK, Plymouth
13. Collie J.S., Hall S.J., Kaiser M.J., and Poiner I.R. A quantitative analysis of fishing impacts on shelf-sea benthos. J. Anim. Ecol. 69 (2000) 785-798
14. Dauwe B., Herman P.M.J., and Heip C.H.R. Community structure and bioturbation potential of macrofauna at four North Sea stations with contrasting food supply. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 173 (1998) 67-83
15. Dickie L.M., Kerr S.R., and Boudreau P.R. Size-dependent processes underlying regularities in ecosystem structure. Ecol. Monogr. 57 (1987) 233-250
16. Dinmore T.A., Duplisea D.E., Rackham B.D., Maxwell D.L., and Jennings S. Impact of a large-scale area closure on patterns of fishing disturbance and the consequences for benthic communities. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 60 (2003) 371-380
17. Duineveld J.C.A., Kunitzer A., Niermann U., de Wilde P.A.W.J., and Gray J.S. The macrobenthos of the North Sea. Neth. J. Sea Res. 28 (1991) 53-65
18. Duplisea D.E., and Drgas A. Sensitivity of a benthic, metazoan, biomass size spectrum to differences in sediment granulometry. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 177 (1999) 73-81
19. Duplisea D.E., Jennings S., Malcolm S.J., Parker R., and Sivye D.B. Modelling potential impacts of bottom trawl fisheries on soft sediment biogeochemistry in the North Sea. Geochem. Trans. 14 (2001) 1-6
20. Duplisea D.E., Jennings S., Warr K.J., and Dinmore T.A. A size-based model of the impacts of bottom trawling on benthic community structure. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59 (2002) 1785-1795
21. Durrieu de Madron X., Ferre B., Le Corre G., Grenz C., Conan P., Pujo-Pay M., Buscail R., and Bodiot O. Trawling-induced resuspension and dispersal of muddy sediments and dissolved elements in the Gulf of Lion (NW Mediterranean). Cont. Shelf Res. 25 (2005) 2387-2409
22. Eleftheriou A., and Holme N.A. Macrofauna techniques. In: Holme N.A., and Mclntyre A.D. (Eds). Methods for the study of the marine benthos (1984), IBP Hand Book 16, Blackwell, Oxford 140-216
23. Frid C.L.J., Harwood K.G., Hall S.J., and Hall J.A. Long-term changes in the benthic communities on North Sea fishing grounds. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57 (2000) 1303-1309
24. Gilkinson K., Paulin M., Hurley S., and Schwinghamer P. Impact of trawl door scouring on infaunal bivalves: results of a physical trawl door model/dense interaction. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 224 (1998) 291-312
25. Hagberg J., Jonzen N., Lundberg P., and Ripa J. Uncertain biotic and abiotic interactions in benthic communities. Oikos 100 (2003) 353-361
26. Hermsen J.M., Collie J.S., and Valentine P.C. Mobile fishing gear reduces benthic megafaunal production on Georges Bank. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 260 (2003) 97-108
27. Hiddink, J.G., Jennings, S., Kaiser, M.J., Queirós, A.M., Duplisea, D.E., Piet, G.J., in press. Cumulative impacts of seabed trawl disturbance on benthic biomass, production and species richness in different habitats. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 63.
28. Jennings S., and Kaiser M.J. The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34 (1998) 201-352
29. Jennings S., Warr K.J., Greenstreet S.P.R., and Cotter A.J.R. Spatial and Temporal Patterns in North Sea Fishing Effort. In: Kaiser M.J., and De Groot S.J. (Eds). The Effects of Fishing On Non-target Species and Habitats: Biological, Conservation and Socio-economic Issues (1999), Blackwell Science, Oxford 3-14
30. Jennings S., Dinmore T.A., Duplisea D.E., Warr K.J., and Lancaster J.E. Trawling disturbance can modify benthic production processes. J. Anim. Ecol. 70 (2001) 459-475
31. Jennings S., Nicholson M.D., Dinmore T.A., and Lancaster J. The effect of chronic trawling disturbance on the production of infaunal communities. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 243 (2002) 251-260
32. Jones L.A., Coyle M.D., Gilliland P.M., Larwood J.G., and Murray A.R. Irish Sea Marine Natural Area Profile: a contribution to regional planning and management of the seas around England (2004), English Nature, Peterborough
33. Kaiser M.J., Ramsay K., Richardson C.A., Spence F.E., and Brand A.R. Chronic fishing disturbance has changed shelf sea benthic community structure. J. Anim. Ecol. 69 (2000) 494-503
34. Kaiser M.J., and Ramsay K. Opportunistic feeding by dabs within areas of trawl disturbance: possible implications for increased survival. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 152 (1997) 307-310
35. Kaiser M.J., and Spencer B.E. Survival of by-catch from a beam trawl. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 126 (1995) 31-38
36. Kaiser M.J., and Spencer B.E. The effects of beam-trawl disturbance on infaunal communities in different habitats. J. Anim. Ecol. 65 (1996) 348-358
37. Lindeboom H.J., and de Groot S.J. IMPACT II - the effects of different types of fisheries on the North Sea and Irish Sea benthic ecosystems (1998), Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, Texel
38. Mackie A.S.Y. Offshore Benthic Communities of the Irish Sea. In: O'Connor F.B. (Ed). The Irish Sea: An Environmental Review. Part One: Nature Conservation (1990), Liverpool University Press, Liverpool
39. Molen J. The influence of tides, winds and waves on the net sand transport in the North Sea. Cont. Shelf Res. 22 (2002) 2739-2762
40. Pikitch E.K., Santora C., Babcock E.A., Bakun A., Bonfil R., Conover D.O., Dayton P., Doukakis P., Fluharty D., Heneman B., Houde E.D., Link J., Livingston P.A., Mangel M., McAllister M.K., Pope J., and Sainsbury K.J. Ecosystem-based fishery management. Science 305 (2004) 346-347
41. Pinheiro J.C., and Bates D.M. Mixed-effects models in S and S-Plus. In: Chambers J., Eddy W., Härdle W., Sheater S., and Tierney L. (Eds). Statistics and computing (2000), Springer-Verlag, New York 1-13
42. Ramsay K., Kaiser M.J., Moore P.G., and Hughes R.N. Consumption of fisheries discards by benthic scavengers: utilization of energy subsidies in different marine habitats. J. Anim. Ecol. 66 (1997) 884-896
43. Rijnsdorp A.D., Buys A.M., Storbeck F., and Visser E.G. Micro-scale distribution of beam trawl effort in the southern North Sea between 1993 and 1996 in relation to the trawling frequency of the sea bed and the impact on benthic organisms. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 55 (1998) 403-419
44. Schwinghamer P. Characteristic size distributions of integral benthic communities. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 38 (1981) 1255-1263
45. Smith C.J., Papadopoulou K.N., and Diliberto S. Impact of otter trawling on an eastern Mediterranean commercial trawl fishing ground. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57 (2000) 1340-1351
46. Skold M., Josefson A.B., and Loo L.O. Sigmoidal growth in the brittle star Amphiura filiformis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Mar. Biol. 139 (2001) 519-526
47. Thiebaux M.L., and Dickie L.M. Structure of the body-size spectrum of the biomass in aquatic ecosystems - a consequence of allometry in predator-prey interactions. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50 (1993) 1308-1317
48. Trimmer M., Petersen J., Sivyer D.B., Mills C., Young E., and Parker E.R. Impact of long-term benthic trawl disturbance on sediment sorting and biogeochemistry in the southern North Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 298 (2005) 79-94
49. Warwick R.M., and Uncles R.J. Distribution of benthic macrofaunal associations in the Bristol Channel in relation to tidal stress. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 3 (1980) 97-103
50. Wieking G., and Kröncke I. Macrofauna communities in the Dogger Bank (Central North Sea) in the late 1990s: spatial distribution, species composition and trophic structure. Helgol. Mar. Res. 57 (2003) 34-46