| Autor: |
Lance Morgan, Peter J. Etnoyer, Mark Powell, Mike Mertens, Astrid Scholz |
| Rok vydání: |
2005 |
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| Zdroj: |
Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems ISBN: 9783540241362 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/3-540-27673-4_60 |
| Popis: |
The conservation of deep-sea corals is of growing interest in the United States. A range of issues including biodiversity protection, conservation of seafloor habitats, and the role of deep-sea corals as essential fish habitat places greater significance on understanding the distributions of these corals and fishing activities. At the same time overfishing of some groundfish populations highlights the need for ecosystem-based management. Here we present records of habitat-forming deep-sea corals from the United States Pacific Fishery Management Council region that we analyze in relation to differential ecological impacts of demersal fishing gears. We use an ecological footprint approach combining groundfish catch by gear type with a previously published ecological severity ranking of fishing gears. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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