Benthic disturbance by fishing gear in the Irish Sea: a
comparison of beam trawling and scallop dredging Kaiser, M.J.,
Hill, A.S., Ramsay, K., Spencer, B.E., Brand, A.R., Veale, L.O.,
Prudden, K., Rees, E.I.S., Munday, B.W., Ball, B. and Hawkins,
S.J. (1996) Benthic disturbance by fishing gear in the Irish
Sea: a comparison of beam trawling and scallop dredging. Aquatic
Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 6, (4), 269-285.
(doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0755(199612)6:4<269::AID-
AQC202>3.0.CO;2-C). Full text not available from this
repository. 1. The distribution of effort for the most
frequently used mobile demersal gears in the Irish Sea was
examined and their potential to disturb different benthic
communities calculated. Fishing effort data, expressed as the
number of days fished, was collated for all fleets operating in
the Irish Sea in 1994. For each gear, the percentage of the
seabed swept by those parts of the gear that penetrate the
seabed was calculated. 2. For all gears, the majority of fishing
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