Reconstructing three decades of total international trawling effort in the North Sea

<p>Fishing – especially trawling – is one of the most ubiquitous anthropogenic pressures on marine ecosystems worldwide, yet very few long-term, spatially explicit datasets on trawling effort exist; this greatly hampers our understanding of the medium- to long-term impact of trawling. This imp...

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Main Authors: E. Couce, M. Schratzberger, G. H. Engelhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2020-02-01
Series:Earth System Science Data
Online Access:https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/12/373/2020/essd-12-373-2020.pdf