Publication Date:
2021-07-07
Description:
Fishing is widely recognized to have profound effects on estuarine and marine ecosystems (Hammer and Jansson, 1993; Dayton et al., 1995). Intense commercial and recreationalharvest of valuable species can result in population collapses of target and nontarget species (Botsford et al.,1997; Pauly et al., 1998; Collie et al. 2000; Jackson et al., 2001). Fishing gear, such as trawls and dredges, thatare dragged over the seafloor inflict damage to the benthic habitat (Dayton et al., 1995; Engel and Kvitek, 1995;Jennings and Kaiser, 1998; Watling and Norse, 1998). As the growing human population, over-capitalization, and increasing government subsidies of fishing place increasing pressures on marine resources (Myers, 1997), a clear understanding of the mechanisms by which fishing affects coastal systems is required to craft sustainable fisheries management.
Keywords:
Biology
;
Ecology
;
Fisheries
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
article
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Format:
application/pdf
Format:
application/pdf
Format:
712-719
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