Reducing negative ecological impacts of capture fisheries through gear modification

• Main Author: Munden, Jenna G.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2013
• Subjects: Cumberland Sound; Greenland; Turbot
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/11100/; https://research.library.mun.ca/11100/1/Munden_JennaG.pdf

Capture fisheries provide the world with a healthy source of protein than can have minimal environmental impacts if harvested sustainably. Negative environmental impacts of capture fisheries include; overexploitation, modification of food webs, mortality of nontarget species, habitat alteration and...