A Case Study of available methodology for the identification of Vulnerable Ecosystems/Habitats in bottom deep-sea fisheries: Possibilities to apply this method in the NAFO Regulatory Area in order to select Marine Protected Areas

• Main Authors: Durán-Muñoz, Pablo, Murillo, Francisco Javier, Serrano, Alberto, Sagayo-Gil, Miriam, Parra-Descalzo, Santiago, Díaz-del-Río-Español, Víctor, Sacau-Cuadrado, María del Mar, Patrocinio, Teodoro, Cristobo, Javier
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo; Interdisciplinary research; Pesquerías; vulnerable ecosystem; vulnerable habitat; cold-water coral; deep-water bottom fisheries; adverse impacts; mapping; closed areas; marine protected areas; Hatton Bank; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/749; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/328198

Information is critical to Ecosystem Approach and to research about Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems/Habitats (VME/Hs), fishing impacts on habitats and ad-hoc management measures are high-priority. Therefore, this paper presents the ECOVUL/ARPA Interdisciplinary Approach, a case study of methodology for...