Effects of Fishing on Habitat - Scientific Publications

• EFH Final Rule regulation guidance on minimizing adverse effects of fishing on EFH, 50 CFR 600.815(a)(2).
  
• Effects of Trawling and Dredging and Seafloor Habitat (National Research Council, 2002)
  
• A Review of National and International Literature on the Effects of Fishing on Benthic Habitats (K. Johnson, 2002).
  
• A review of the fishing gear utilized within the Southeast Region and their potential impacts on essential fish habitat (Barnette, 2001).
  
• Workshop on the Effects of Fishing Gear on Marine Habitats off the Northeastern United States. (Northeast Region Essential Fish Habitat Steering Committee, 2001). A report of the October 2001 workshop
  
• A summary of the NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center's December 1999 workshop on gear impacts on essential fish habitat. (Hamilton, 2000).
  
• Effects of Fishing on Habitat (Auster and Langton,1999). A report by Peter J. Auster and Richard W. Langton that synthesizes and reviews a range of studies reporting the impacts of fishing on habitat.