The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments.
The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments.
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10.1111/gcb.16105
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发表时间:
2022-05
影响因子:
11.6
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Subtidal marine sediments are one of the planet's primary carbon stores and strongly influence the oceanic sink for atmospheric CO2. By far the most widespread human activity occurring on the seabed is bottom trawling/dredging for fish and shellfish. A global first‐order estimate suggested mobile demersal fishing activities may cause 0.16–0.4 Gt of organic carbon (OC) to be remineralized annually from seabed sediment carbon stores (Sala et al., 2021). There are, however, many uncertainties in this calculation. Here, we discuss the potential drivers of change in seabed sediment OC stores due to mobile demersal fishing activities and conduct a literature review, synthesizing studies where this interaction has been directly investigated. Under certain environmental settings, we hypothesize that mobile demersal fishing would reduce OC in seabed stores due to lower production of flora and fauna, the loss of fine flocculent material, increased sediment resuspension, mixing and transport and increased oxygen exposure. Reductions would be offset to varying extents by reduced faunal bioturbation and community respiration, increased off‐shelf transport and increases in primary production from the resuspension of nutrients. Studies which directly investigated the impact of demersal fishing on OC stocks had mixed results. A finding of no significant effect was reported in 61% of 49 investigations; 29% reported lower OC due to fishing activities, with 10% reporting higher OC. In relation to remineralization rates within the seabed, four investigations reported that demersal fishing activities decreased remineralization, with three reporting higher remineralization rates. Patterns in the environmental and experimental characteristics between different outcomes were largely indistinct. More evidence is urgently needed to accurately quantify the impact of anthropogenic physical disturbance on seabed carbon in different environmental settings and to incorporate full evidence‐based carbon considerations into global seabed management. Subtidal marine sediments are one of the planet's primary carbon stores and strongly influence the oceanic sink for atmospheric CO2. Considering basic principles, we hypothesize that under certain environmental settings, trawling/dredging for fish and shellfish would reduce seabed sediment carbon storage; however, this may be offset by positive feedback mechanisms in some circumstances. A review of studies which directly investigated this impact in situ also highlighted mixed results. More evidence is urgently needed to accurately quantify this impact in different environmental settings, and incorporate full evidence‐based carbon considerations into global seabed management.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1802379115
发表时间:
2018-10-23
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Amoroso RO;Pitcher CR;Rijnsdorp AD;McConnaughey RA;Parma AM;Suuronen P;Eigaard OR;Bastardie F;Hintzen NT;Althaus F;Baird SJ;Black J;Buhl-Mortensen L;Campbell AB;Catarino R;Collie J;Cowan JH Jr;Durholtz D;Engstrom N;Fairweather TP;Fock HO;Ford R;Gálvez PA;Gerritsen H;Góngora ME;González JA;Hiddink JG;Hughes KM;Intelmann SS;Jenkins C;Jonsson P;Kainge P;Kangas M;Kathena JN;Kavadas S;Leslie RW;Lewis SG;Lundy M;Makin D;Martin J;Mazor T;Gonzalez-Mirelis G;Newman SJ;Papadopoulou N;Posen PE;Rochester W;Russo T;Sala A;Semmens JM;Silva C;Tsolos A;Vanelslander B;Wakefield CB;Wood BA;Hilborn R;Kaiser MJ;Jennings S
通讯作者:
Jennings S
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2108532118
发表时间:
2021-08-03
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
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Worm B
影响因子:
2.3
作者:
CHURCHILL, JH
通讯作者:
CHURCHILL, JH
影响因子:
4.5
作者:
Borsje, Bas W.;Bouma, Tjeerd J.;Hulscher, Suzanne J. M. H.
通讯作者:
Hulscher, Suzanne J. M. H.
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
Cloern, J. E.;Foster, S. Q.;Kleckner, A. E.
通讯作者:
Kleckner, A. E.