Fisheries
Can light-guided shrimp fishing reduce the impact of bottom trawling?
A Swedish project is testing whether light-guided shrimp fishing can reduce the environmental impacts of bottom trawling.
Fisheries
Catch & Culture Review: How Atlantic bluefin tuna catch rates and sizes vary over space and time
This review of recent fisheries literature examines bluefin tuna catch rates, ecosystem-based fisheries management and acoustic aggregation patterns. Findings support regionally and seasonally targeted management and conservation, while showing the value of scientific catch-and-release fishing.
Fisheries
Can ‘flying’ doors reduce the environmental impact of bottom trawling?
A field trial in Spain is testing semi-pelagic "flying" doors to reduce the impact of bottom trawling while maintaining catches.
Fisheries
Sediment suspended by bottom trawling can reduce reproductive success in Atlantic cod and other broadcast spawning fishes
Bottom trawling could decrease the spawning of cod, and other fishes with pelagic eggs, through concentrations of suspended sediments.
Fisheries
Fisheries in Focus: Busting misconceptions about bottom trawling and its environmental impacts
Fisheries researchers examine all environmental impacts of bottom-trawling and compare the fishing method to other forms of food production.
Fisheries
Bottom trawling linked to high greenhouse gas emissions in MPA-supporting study
A study touts marine protected areas and bottom trawling bans, but its methods and conclusions are questioned by fellow researchers and fishers.