Investigating the effects of mobile bottom fishing on benthic carbon processing and storage: a systematic review protocol

Stacey  Felgate; John Aldridge; Stefan Bolam; Sarah Breimann; Emil de Borger; Jolien  Claes; Jochen Depestele; Graham Epstein; Clement Garcia; Natalie Hicks; Michel Kaiser; Jack Laverick; Gennadi Lessin; Finbarr O'Neill; Sarah Pardis; Ruth Parker; Ryan Pereira; Alex Poulton; Claire Powell; Craig Smeaton; Paul Snelgrove; Justin Tiano; Johan van der Molan; Sebastiann van de Velde; Marija Sciberras

doi:10.1186/s13750-024-00348-z

Investigating the effects of mobile bottom fishing on benthic carbon processing and storage: a systematic review protocol

Stacey Felgate^*, John Aldridge , Stefan Bolam, Sarah Breimann, Emil de Borger, Jolien Claes, Jochen Depestele, Graham Epstein, Clement Garcia, Natalie Hicks, Michel Kaiser, Jack Laverick, Gennadi Lessin, Finbarr O'Neill, Sarah Pardis, Ruth Parker, Ryan Pereira, Alex Poulton, Claire Powell, Craig SmeatonPaul Snelgrove, Justin Tiano, Johan van der Molan, Sebastiann van de Velde, Marija Sciberras

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Background: Marine sediments represent one of the planet’s largest carbon stores. Bottom trawl fisheries constitute the most widespread physical disturbance to seabed habitats, which exert a large influence over the oceanic carbon dioxide (CO2) sink. Recent research has sparked concern that seabed disturbance from trawling can therefore turn marine sediments into a large source of CO2, but the calculations involved carry a high degree of uncertainty. This is primarily due to a lack of quantitative understanding of how trawling mixes and resuspends sediments, how it alters bioturbation, bioirrigation, and oxygenation rates, and how these processes translate into carbon fluxes into or out of sediments.

Original language	English
Article number	24
Number of pages	10
Journal	Environmental Evidence
Volume	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-024-00348-z
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2024
Event	Trawling & Carbon Workshop - Lyell Centre , Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Apr 2023 → 21 Apr 2023

Keywords

Carbon
Sediment
Seafloor
Trawling
Disturbance
Systematic Review
Bentic
fishing
biogeochemistry

UN SDGs

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Felgate, S., Aldridge , J., Bolam, S., Breimann, S., de Borger, E., Claes, J., Depestele, J., Epstein, G., Garcia, C., Hicks, N., Kaiser, M., Laverick, J., Lessin, G., O'Neill, F., Pardis, S., Parker, R., Pereira, R., Poulton, A., Powell, C., ... Sciberras, M. (2024). Investigating the effects of mobile bottom fishing on benthic carbon processing and storage: a systematic review protocol. Environmental Evidence, 13, Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-024-00348-z

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Investigating the effects of mobile bottom fishing on benthic carbon processing and storage: a systematic review protocol

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