Fishing effects in northeast Atlantic shelf seas: patterns in fishing effort, diversity and community structure. IV. Can comparisons of species diversity be used to assess human impacts on demersal fish faunas?

• Main Authors: Rogers, S.I., Maxwell, D., Rijnsdorp, A.D., Damm, U., Vanhee, W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Dover; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=6409

Patterns in the abundance of commercially important and non-target demersal fish species collected by beam trawl survey from the coastal waters of the northeast Atlantic are described. Catches were dominated by a small number of species, which occurred in large numbers and at high biomass. The most...