Fisheries
Fisheries in Focus: Busting misconceptions about bottom trawling and its environmental impacts
Fisheries researchers examine all environmental impacts of bottom-trawling and compare the fishing method to other forms of food production.
Fisheries
Sediment suspended by bottom trawling can reduce reproductive success in Atlantic cod and other broadcast spawning fishes
Bottom trawling could decrease the spawning of cod, and other fishes with pelagic eggs, through concentrations of suspended sediments.
Fisheries
Bottom trawling linked to high greenhouse gas emissions in MPA-supporting study
A study touts marine protected areas and bottom trawling bans, but its methods and conclusions are questioned by fellow researchers and fishers.