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Fishing for seafloor sustainability: navigating the impact of Belgian bottom trawling on benthic habitats using an integrative approach (Benthis Nationaal 2) Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Bottom shrimp trawling impacts on species distribution and fishery dynamics; Ungwana Bay fishery Kenya before and after the 2006 trawl ban Ghent University
Determining the impacts of trawling on benthic function in European waters: a biological traits approach Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Trawling reefs: impacts of habitat modification Ghent University
Experimental bottom trawling finds resilience in large-bodied infauna but vulnerability for epifauna and juveniles in the Frisian Front Ghent University
Short-term effect of pulsed direct current on various species of adult fish and its implication in pulse trawling for brown shrimp in the North Sea Ghent University
How benthic habitats and bottom trawling affect trait composition in the diet of seven demersal and benthivorous fish species in the North Sea. Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Demersal and benthivorous fish depend on prey availability in benthic habitats for their diet. Prey availability may in turn be affected by bottom trawling. Our study attempted to link the prey consumed by fish directly to those available in the benthic environment. We test the hypothesis that bottom trawling significantly affected the trait composition of fish diets with a strong link to benthic habitats. Stomach content data were analysed for ...
Pulse trawling as an alternative for beam trawling: Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Pressure on the beam trawler fleet has strongly increased the last decade. First, high fuel prices resulted in high operational costs and a decline of the profit margins. Second, the beam trawler fleet, characterized by high by-catches of undersized species, is facing a major challenge with the implementation of the landing obligation. Third, traditional beam trawling with tickler chains has a high impact on the benthic ecosystem while ...
One plus one is three: trawling differences from multi-beam imagery Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Beam trawling causes physical disruption of the seafloor mainly due to the effect of the tickler chains that penetrate into the seabed. About 40 Dutch beam trawlers have recently replaced tickler chains by electrodes as alternative stimulation for catching flatfish. This greatly reduced fuel costs and presumably reduces benthic impacts. These newly developed fishing gears (pulse trawls) were studied in the EU-FP7 project “Benthis” using a ...