Siltation rate No LSE – changes interaction with (Low), the seabed is No LSE interaction with – including LSE - This pressure may result from physical disturbance of the sediment, along with minor and will the seabed is minor and will smothering hydrodynamic action caused by the passage of towed gear, leading to entrainment and create localised create localised changes in (depth of suspension of the substrate changes in sediment which will disperse vertical sediment which quickly sediment will disperse overburden) quickly Introduction of microbial No LSE pathogens
Siltation rate changes (Low), including smothering (depth of vertical sediment overburden) No LSE – interaction with the seabed is minor and will create localised changes in sediment which will disperse quickly LSE - This pressure may result from physical disturbance of the sediment, along with hydrodynamic action caused by the passage of towed gear, leading to entrainment and suspension of the substrate No LSE – interaction with the seabed is minor and will create localised changes in sediment which will disperse quickly Introduction of microbial pathogens No LSE