We review the effects of fishing on benthic fauna, habitat, diversity, community structure and
trophic interactions in tropical, temperate and polar marine environments and consider …

Bottom trawling and use of other mobile fishing gear have effects on the seabed that
resemble forest clearcutting, a terrestrial disturbance recognized as a major threat to …

Striped venus (Chamelea gallina) is one of the most important fish resources on the west
coast of the Adriatic Sea. Recently, there has been a widespread die-off of C. gallina …

Bottom fishing using towed nets and dredges is one of the most widespread sources of
physical disturbance to the continental shelf seas throughout the world. Previous studies …

This paper analyses the spatial distribution of fishing effort in a sample of 25 Dutch
commercial beam trawlers fishing for sole and plaice in the period 1993–1996, based on an …

Summary 1 Trawling disturbance has wide‐ranging impacts on the marine environment and
is well known to modify benthic habitat and community structure. This has led to speculation …

Maerl beds are mixed sediments built by a surface layer of slow-growing, unattached
coralline algae that are of international conservation significance because they create areas …

The boreal bivalve Modiolus modiolus is common subtidally where it aggregates to form
extensive, long-lived, biogenic habitats with a diverse associated flora and, especially …

The aggregation and feeding behaviour of invertebrate scavengers in areas disturbed by
trawling was investigated at three different localities. At each site a fishing disturbance was …

As part of a long-term study to examine the ecological effects of beam-trawling, we
investigated the immediate impact of fishing on the megafaunal component of a benthic …