Impacts of trawl fisheries on marine benthic biogeochemistry

Fishing is widely recognised as the largest anthropogenic impact on coastal marine ecosystems. Bottom trawling is both widespread and a major impacting activity with documented effects on target species, populations of non-target species, food web dynamics and habitat features. In this thesis the ef...

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Main Author: Percival, Philip
Published: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400015