Keywords:
Fisheries -- Environmental aspects.
;
Marine ecology.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (74 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780470694855
Series Statement:
British Ecological Society Ecological Issues Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=470282
Language:
English
Note:
Commercial fishing: the wider ecological impacts -- Contents -- Key Points -- 1 Commercial fishing: the wider ecological impacts -- 1.1 Introduction -- 2 Fishing gears and their operation -- 2.1 Gear selectivity -- 2.2 Pelagic drifting gears -- 2.3 Bottom set gears -- 2.4 Pelagic mobile gears -- 2.5 Bottom mobile gears -- 2.6 SCUBA diving, explosives, poisons -- 3 Effects of litter from fishing gear -- 3.1 'Ghost' fishing -- 3.2 Ingestion offragments offishinggear by marine mammals, turtles and seabirds -- 4 Vulnerability of different marine habitats -- 4.1 Mud -- 4.2 Sand -- 4.3 Gravel and mixed grounds -- 4.4 Maerl -- 4.5 Coral, coralligene and rocky reef habitats -- 4.6 Seagrass meadows -- 4.7 Kelp forests -- 4.8 Sea mounts -- 4.9 Relative vunerability -- 5 Effects on non-target organisms -- 5.1 Sea birds -- 5.2 Sea mammals -- 5.3 Sea turtles -- 5.4 Sea snakes -- 5.5 Benthic scavengers -- 6 Community and ecosystem responses -- 6.1 Community diversity -- 6.2 Habitat structure -- 6.3 Benthopelagic coupling -- 6.4 Species interactions -- 6.5 Assessing fisheries effects -- 7 Conservation aspects and the way forward -- 7.1 Marine reserves -- 7.2 Practical conservation measures -- 8 Further reading -- 9 Glossary -- 10 Acronyms -- 11 Addresses of contributors.
