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Impacts of bottom trawling on a deep-water Oculina coral ecosystem off Florida
| Title: | Impacts of bottom trawling on a deep-water Oculina coral ecosystem off Florida. |
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| Name(s): |
Reed, John K., creator Koenig, Christopher C., creator Shepard, Andrew N., creator |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 2007 | |
| Publisher: | Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami | |
| Extent: | 17 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3172092 (digitool), FADT3172092 (IID), fau:5655 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
In the 1970s, the Oculina reefs were teeming with large spawning aggregations of grouper and snapper. By the early 1990s, commercial and recreational fishing had decimated the fish populations, and the coral had been severely impacted by bottom trawling for rock shrimp. Historical photographic transects, taken in the 1970s with the Johnson-Sea-Link submersibles, provide crucial evidence of the status and health of the reefs prior to heavy fishing and trawling activities. Quantitative analyses of photographic images by point count reveal drastic loss of live coral cover between 1975 and 2001. This manuscript is available at http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/bms and may be cited as: Reed, J. K., Koenig, C. C., & Shepard, A. N. (2007). Impacts of bottom trawling on a deep-water Oculina coral ecosystem off Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science, 81(3): 481-496. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1639. |
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| Subject(s): |
Coral reef ecology Coral reef ecology --Florida Trawls and trawling --Environmental aspects Fishing Oceanographic submersibles |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3172092 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©2007 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
