Effects of closing bottom trawling on fisheries, biodiversity and fishing communities in a boreal marine ecosystem: the Hawke Box off Labrador, Canada.

• Main Authors: Kincaid, Kate, Rose, George
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2017
• Subjects: Canada; Northwest Atlantic; Snow crab
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/77363; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0343

The Hawke Box is an offshore area (8610km2) of the boreal Northwest Atlantic that at the request of local fishers was closed to trawling and gillnetting in 2003, but remained open to seasonal snow crab (Chionocetes opilio) pot fishing. Closure was a precautionary management measure primarily to sustain the crab fishery and secondarily to conserve cod known to aggregate there. Fall (1996-2013) and spring (1996-2003, 2015) surveys indicated that biological community assemblages changed significantly before-after and inside-outside the closure (Permanova Ps The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author.