The footprint of bottom trawling in European waters: Distribution, intensity, and seabed integrity

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 847-865

  Eigaard, Ole R ^a   Bastardie, Francois ^a   Hintzen, Niels T ^b   Buhl Mortensen, Lene ^c   Buhl Mortensen, Pål ^c   Catarino, Rui ^d   Dinesen, Grete E ^a   Egekvist, Josefine ^a   Fock, Heino O ^e   Geitner, Kerstin ^a   Gerritsen, Hans D ^f   González, Manuel Marín ^g   Jonsson, Patrik ^h   Kavadas, Stefanos ⁱ   Laffargue, Pascal ^j   Lundy, Mathieu ^k   Gonzalez Mirelis, Genoveva ^c   Nielsen, J Rasmus ^a   Papadopoulou, Nadia ⁱ   Posen, Paulette E ^l   Pulcinella, Jacopo ^m   Russo, Tommaso ⁿ   Sala, Antonello ^m   Silva, Cristina ^o   Smith, Christopher J ⁱ   Vanelslander, Bart ^p   Rijnsdorp, Adriaan D ^b   more..

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^f MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^g INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^h SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^j IFREMER   (France)

^k AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^l CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^m CNR   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^o IPMA   (Portugal)

^p INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

more..

Author keywords

benthic impact; bottom trawl; fishing pressure; indicators; Mediterranean Sea; Northeast Atlantic; seabed habitat; seabed integrity; trawling footprint; trawling intensity

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FISHING EFFORT; LONGEVITY; MONITORING SYSTEM; OVERFISHING; SEAFLOOR;

ADRIATIC SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; KATTEGAT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH SEA; PORTUGAL; SKAGERRAK; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 85019128492     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw194     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Anon. 2014. Priorities for MSFD programmes of measures. Joint NGO Paper. http://www.seas-At-risk.org/images/pdf/archive/2014/NGO-priorities-for-PoM-with-Additional-chapters-FINAL-17-October-2014.pdf
2. Ardron, J. A., Clark, M. R., Penney, A. J., Hourigan, T. F., Rowden, A. A., Dunstan, P. K., Watling, L. et al. 2014. A systematic approach towards the identification and protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems. Marine Policy, 49: 146-154.
3. Bastardie, F., Nielsen, J. R., Ulrich, C., Egekvist, J., and Degel, H. 2010. Detailed mapping of fishing effort and landings by coupling fishing logbooks with satellite-recorded vessel geo-location. Fisheries Research, 106: 41-53.
4. Bennema, F. P., and Rijnsdorp, A. D. 2015. Fish abundance, fisheries, fish trade and consumption in sixteenth-century Netherlands as described by Adriaen Coenen. Fisheries Research, 161: 384-399.
5. Bolam, S. G., Coggan, R. C., Eggleton, J. E., Diesing, M., and Stephens, D. 2014. Sensitivity of macrobenthic secondary production to trawling in the English sector of the Greater North Sea: A biological traits approach. Journal of Sea Research, 85: 162-177.
6. Buhl-Mortensen, L., Aglen, A., Breen, M., Buhl-Mortensen, P., Ervik, A., Husa, V., Løkkeborg, S., Røttingen, I., and Stockhausen, H. H. 2013. Impacts of fisheries and aquaculture on sediments and benthic fauna: suggestions for new management approaches, Fisken og Havet 2, 69pp
7. Buhl-Mortensen, L., Ellingsen, K. E., Buhl-Mortensen, P., Skaar, K. L., and Gonzalez-Mirelis, G. 2016. Trawling disturbance on megabenthos and sediment in the Barents Sea: chronic effects on density, diversity, and composition. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(Suppl. 1): i98-i114.
8. Clark, M., Althaus, F., Schlacher, T., Williams, A., Bowden, D., and Rowden, A. 2016. The impacts of deep-sea fisheries on benthic communities: A review. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(Suppl. 1): i51-i69.
9. Collie, J. S., Hall, S. J., Kaiser, M. J., and Poiner, I. R. 2000a. A quantitative analysis of fishing impacts on shelf-sea benthos. Journal of Animal Ecology, 69: 785-798.
10. Collie, J. S., Escanero, G. A., and Valentine, P. C. 2000b. Photographic evaluation of the impacts of bottom fishing on benthic epifauna. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57: 987-1001.
11. Davies, C. E., Moss, D., and O Hill, M. 2004. EUNIS Habitat Classification Revised 2004. Report to the European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity. European Environment Agency. 307 p.
12. Dayton, P. K., Thrush, S. F., Agardy, M. T., and Hofman, R. J. 1995. Environmental-effects of marine fishing. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 5: 205-232.
13. Duineveld, G. C. A., Bergman, M. J. N., and Lavaleye, M. S. S. 2007. Effects of an area closed to fisheries on the composition of the benthic fauna in the southern North Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 899-908.
14. EC. 1967/2006. Council Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 of 21 December 2006 concerning management measures for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea, amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1626/94. OJ L 409, 30.12.2006, p. 11.
15. EC. 2008. Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environment policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive). Journal of European Union, 164: 19-40.
16. Eigaard, O. R., Rihan, D., Graham, N., Sala, A., and Zachariassen, K. 2011. Improving fishing effort descriptors: modelling engine power and gear-size relations of five European trawl fleets. Fisheries Research, 110: 39-46.
17. Eigaard, O. R., Marchal, P., Gislason, H., and Rijnsdorp, A. D. 2014. Technological Development and Fisheries Management. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture 22: 156-174.
18. Eigaard, O., Bastardie, F., Breen, M., Dinesen, G., Hintzen, N., Laffargue, P., Nielsen, J. et al. 2016. Estimating seabed pressure from demersal trawls, seines, and dredges based on gear design and dimensions. ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(Supplement 1): i27-i43.
19. Ellis, N., Pantus, F., and Pitcher, C. R. 2014. Scaling up experimental trawl impact results to fishery management scales-A modelling approach for a "hot time". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 71: 733-746.
20. Eno, N. C., Frid, C. L. J., Hall, K., Ramsay, K., Sharp, R. A. M., Brazier, D. P., Hearn, S. et al. 2013. Assessing the sensitivity of habitats to fishing: from seabed maps to sensitivity maps. Journal of Fish Biology, 83: 826-846.
21. EUNIS. http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/eunis/eunishabitat-classification (downloaded 12 July 2015).
22. Fock, H. O., Kloppmann, M., and Stelzenmuller, V. 2011. Linking marine fisheries to environmental objectives: A case study on seafloor integrity under European maritime policies. Environment Science Policy, 14: 289-300.
23. Gage, J. D., Roberts, J. M., Hartley, J. R., and Humphery, J. D. 2005. Potential impacts of deep-sea trawling on the benthic ecosystem along the Northern European continental margin: A review. In Benthic Habitats and the Effects of Fishing, vol. 41, pp. 503-517. Ed. by B. W. Barnes, and J. P. Thomas. American Fisheries Society Symposium, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
24. Gerritsen, H. D., Minto, C., and Lordan, C. 2013. How much of the seabed is impacted by mobile fishing gear? Absolute estimates from vessel monitoring system (VMS) point data. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70: 523-531.
25. Gerritsen, H. D., and Lordan, C. 2014. "Atlas of commercial fisheries around Ireland". Marine Institute, Ireland. ISBN 978-1-902895-56-7. 59 pp.
26. Grabowski, J. H., Bachman, M., Demarest, C., Eayrs, S., Harris, B. P., Malkoski, V., Packer, D. et al. 2014. Assessing the vulnerability of marine benthos to fishing gear impacts. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture, 22: 142-155.
27. Hall, S. J. 1994. Physical disturbance and marine benthic communities: life in unconsolidated sediments. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review, 32: 179-239.
28. Halpern, B. S., Walbridge, S., Selkoe, K. A., Kappel, C. V., Micheli, F., DAgrosa, C., Bruno, J. F. et al. 2008. A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems. Science, 319: 948-952.
29. Hiddink, J. G., Johnson, A. F., Kingham, R., and Hinz, H. 2011. Could our fisheries be more productive? Indirect negative effects of bottom trawl fisheries on fish condition. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48: 1441-1449.
30. Hintzen, N. T., Piet, G. J., and Brunel, T. 2010. Improved estimation of trawling tracks using cubic Hermite spline interpolation of position registration data. Fish Research, 101: 108-115.
31. Hintzen, N. T., Bastardie, F., Beare, D., Piet, G. J., Ulrich, C., Deporte, N., Egekvist, J. et al. 2012. VMStools: Open-source software for the processing, analysis and visualisation of fisheries logbook and VMS data. Fisheries Research, 115-116: 31-43.
32. Horwood, J. 1993. The Bristol Channel Sole (Solea solea (L))-A Fisheries Case-Study. Advances in Marine Biology, 29: 215-367.
33. ICES. 2014. Second Interim Report of theWorking Group on Spatial Fisheries Data (WGSFD), 1013 June 2014, ICES Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark. ICES CM 2014/SSGSUE:05. 102 pp.
34. Jennings, S., and Kaiser, M. J. 1998. The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Advances in Marine Biology, 34: 201-352.
35. Jennings, S., Dinmore, T. A., Duplisea, D. E., Warr, K. J., and Lancaster, J. E. 2001. Trawling disturbance can modify benthic production processes. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70: 459-475.
36. Jennings, S., Freeman, S., Parker, R., Duplisea, D. E., and Dinmore, T. A. 2005. Ecosystem consequences of bottom fishing disturbance. American Fisheries Society Symposium, 41: 73-90.
37. Jennings, S., Lee, J., and Hiddink, J. G. 2012. Assessing fishery footprints and the trade-offs between landings value, habitat sensitivity, and fishing impacts to inform marine spatial planning and an ecosystem approach. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 1053-1063.
38. Kaiser, M. J., Clarke, K. R., Hinz, H., Austen, M. C. V., Somerfield, P. J., and Karakassis, I. 2006. Global analysis of response and recovery of benthic biota to fishing. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 311: 1-14.
39. Kerby, K., Cheung, W. L., and Engelhard, G. H. 2012. The United Kingdoms role in North Sea demersal fisheries: A hundred year perspective. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 22: 621-634.
40. Knights, A. M., Piet, G. J., Jongbloed, R. H., Tamis, J. E., White, L., Akoglu, E., Boicenco, L. et al. 2015. An exposure-effect approach for evaluating ecosystem-wide risks from human activities. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72: 1105-1115.
41. Lambert, G. I., Jennings, S., Kaiser, M. J., Davies, T. W., and Hiddink, J. G. 2014. Quantifying recovery rates and resilience of seabed habitats impacted by bottom fishing. Journal of Applied Ecology, 51: 1326-1336.
42. Lee, J., South, A. B., and Jennings, S. 2010. Developing reliable, repeatable, and accessible methods to provide high-resolution estimates of fishing-effort distributions from vessel monitoring system (VMS) data. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 1260-1271.
43. Lucchetti, A., and Sala, A. 2012. Impact and performance of Mediterranean fishing gear by side-scan sonar technology. Canadian journal of fisheries and aquatic sciences, 69: 1806-1816.
44. Maina, I., Kavadas, S., Katsanevakis, S., Somarakis, S., Tserpes, G., Georgakarakos S. 2016. A methodological approach to identify fishing grounds: A case study on Greek trawlers. Fisheries Research, 183, 326-339.
45. Murawski, S. A., Wigley, S. E., Fogarty, M. J., Rago, P. J., and Mountain, D. G. 2005. Effort distribution and catch patterns adjacent to temperate MPAs. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 62: 1150-1167.
46. Oberle, F. K. J., Storlazzi, C. D., and Hanebuth, T. J. J. 2016. What a drag: Quantifying the global impact of chronic bottom trawling on continental shelf sediment. Journal of Marine Systems
47. ONeill, F. G., and Ivanovic, A. 2016. The physical impact of towed demersal fishing gears on soft sediments. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(Supplement 1): i5-i14.
48. ONeill, F. G., and Summerbell, K. 2011. The mobilisation of sediment by demersal otter trawls. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 62: 1088-1097.
49. Piet, G. J., and Hintzen, N. T. 2012. Indicators of fishing pressure and seabed integrity. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 1850-1858.
50. Piet, G. J., and Quirijns, F. J. 2009. The importance of scale for fishing impact estimations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 66: 829-835.
51. Pitcher, C. R., Poiner, I. R., Hill, B. J., and Burridge, C. Y. 2000. Implications of the effects of trawling on sessile megazoobenthos on a tropical shelf in northeastern Australia. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57: 1359-1368.
52. Pitcher, C. R., Ellis, N., Venables, B., Wassenberg, T. J., Burridge, C. Y., Smith, G. P., Browne, M. et al. 2016. Effects of trawling on sessile megabenthos in the Great Barrier Reef and evaluation of the efficacy of management strategies. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(Suppl. 1): i115-i126.
53. Poos, J. J., and Rijnsdorp, A. D. 2007. The dynamics of small-scale patchiness of plaice and sole as reflected in the catch rates of the Dutch beam trawl fleet and its implications for the fleet dynamics. Journal of Sea Research, 58: 100-112.
54. Pusceddu, A., Bianchelli, S., Martin, J., Puig, P., Palanques, A., Masque, P., and Danovaro, R. 2014. Chronic and intensive bottom trawling impairs deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111: 8861-8866.
55. Rice, J., Arvanitidis, C., Borja, A., Frid, C., Hiddink, J. G., Krause, J., Lorance, P. et al. 2012. Indicators for sea-floor integrity under the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Ecological Indicators, 12: 174-184.
56. Rijnsdorp, A. D., Buys, A. M., Storbeck, F., and Visser, E. G. 1998. Micro-scale distribution of beam trawl effort in the southern North Sea between 1993 and 1996 in relation to the trawling frequency of the seabed and the impact on benthic organisms. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 55: 403-419.
57. Rijnsdorp, A. D., Poos, J. J., Quirijns, F. J., HilleRisLambers, R., de Wilde, J. W., and Den Heijer, W. M. 2008. The arms race between fishers. Journal of Sea Research 60: 126-138.
58. Rijnsdorp, A. D., Poos, J. J., and Quirijns, F. J. 2011. Spatial dimension and exploitation dynamics of local fishing grounds by fishers targeting several flatfish species. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68: 1064-1076.
59. Rijnsdorp, A. D., Bastardie, F., Bolam, S. G., Buhl-Mortensen, L., Eigaard, O. R., Hamon, K. G., Hiddink, J. G. et al. 2016. Towards a framework for the quantitative assessment of trawling impacts on the seabed and benthic ecosystem. ICES Journal of Marine Science (2016) 73(Supplement 1), i127-i138. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsv207
60. Russo, T., DAndrea, L., Parisi, A., and Cataudella, S. 2014. VMSbase: An R-package for VMS and logbook data management and analysis in fisheries ecology. PLoS One, 9: e100195.
61. Sala, A., and Damalas, D. 2015. Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF)-Landing Obligation-Part 6 (Fisheries targeting demersal species in the Mediterranean Sea) (STECF-15-19), 2015. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, ISSN 1831-9424, ISBN 978-92-79-54006-6, doi:10.2788/65549, EUR 27600 EN, JRC 98678, 268 pp.
62. Scarcella, G., Grati, F., Raicevich, S., Russo, T., Gramolini, R., Scott, R. D., Polidori, P. et al. 2014. Common sole in the northern and central Adriatic Sea: Spatial management scenarios to rebuild the stock. Journal of Sea Research 89: 12-22.
63. Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF)-Evaluation of Fishing Effort Regimes in European Waters-Part 2 (STECF-14-20). 2014. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, EUR 27027 EN, JRC 93183, 844 pp.
64. Smith, C. J., Papadopoulou, K.-N., Barnard, S., Mazik, K., Elliott, M., Patricio, J., Solaun, O., Little, S., Bhatia, N., and Borja, A. 2016. Managing the marine environment, conceptual models and assessment considerations for the european marine strategy framework directive. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3: 19.
65. Thrush, S. F., Lundquist, C. J., and Hewitt, J. E. 2005. Spatial and temporal scales of disturbance to the seafloor: A generalized framework for active habitat management. American Fisheries Society Symposium, 41: 639-649.
66. Valdemarsen, J. W. 2001. Technological trends in capture fisheries. Ocean and Coastal Management, 44: 635-651.
67. van Denderen, P. D., van Kooten, T., and Rijnsdorp, A. D. 2013. When does fishing lead to more fish? Community consequences of bottom trawl fisheries in demersal food webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280: 20131883.
68. van Denderen, P. D., Hintzen, N. T., Van Kooten, T., and Rijnsdorp, A. D. 2015a. Temporal aggregation of bottom trawling and its implication for the impact on the benthic ecosystem. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72: 952-961.
69. van Denderen, P. D., Bolam, S. G., Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S., Kenny, A., Rijnsdorp, A. D., and van Kooten, T. 2015b. Similar effects of bottom trawling and natural disturbance on composition and function of benthic communities across habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 541: 31-43.
70. Vasilakopoulos, P., Maravelias, C. D., and Tserpes, G. 2014. The Alarming Decline of Mediterranean Fish Stocks. Current Biology, 24: 1643-1648.
71. Watling, L., and Norse, E. A. 1998. Disturbance of the seabed by mobile fishing gear: A comparison to forest clearcutting. Conservation Biology, 12: 1180-1197.
72. Watson, R., Revenga, C., and Kura, Y. 2006. Fishing gear associated with global marine catches: II. Trends in trawling and dredging. Fisheries Research, 79: 103-111.