Investment in extractive or 'non-fed'aquaculture has been proposed as a partial solution for sustainable food provision. An important aspect is the potential for aquaculture-environment …
Feeding humanity puts enormous environmental pressure on our planet. These pressures are unequally distributed, yet we have piecemeal knowledge of how they accumulate across …
Seagrass meadows are threatened by multiple pressures, jeopardizing the many benefits they provide to humanity and biodiversity, including climate regulation and food provision …
Extinctions on land are often inferred from sparse sightings over time, but this technique is ill- suited for wide-ranging species. We develop a space-for-time approach to track the spatial …
CR Pitcher, JG Hiddink, S Jennings… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Bottom trawling is widespread globally and impacts seabed habitats. However, risks from trawling remain unquantified at large scales in most regions. We address these issues by …
Subtidal marine sediments are one of the planet's primary carbon stores and strongly influence the oceanic sink for atmospheric CO2. By far the most widespread human activity …
A Sala, D Damalas, L Labanchi, J Martinsohn, F Moro… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
The combustion of fossil fuels is considered a major cause of climate change, which is why the reduction of emissions has become a key goal of the Paris climate agreement. Coherent …
Bottom trawling accounts for almost one quarter of global fish landings but may also have significant and unwanted impacts on seabed habitats and biota. Management measures …
R Hilborn, R Amoroso, J Collie… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mobile bottom contact gear such as trawls is widely considered to have the highest environmental impact of commonly used fishing gears, with concern about impact on benthic …