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A fishing ground benthic ecosystem improved during the economic crisis

Irini Tsikopoulou,Christopher J. Smith,N. Papadopoulou,Elena Eleftheriadou,Ioannis Karakassis

Published 2018 in ICES Journal of Marine Science

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&NA; Fisheries have global socioeconomic and ecological effects. Long‐term ecological studies could be beneficial to ecosystem approach management and biodiversity conservation, however, they are rare. In this study, the impacts of bottom trawling on a traditional fishing ground in the Eastern Mediterranean were addressed and an improvement in diversity metrics and ecological quality status were detected and ascribed to the Greek economic crisis. After 18 years, there was a modest increase in species richness, total abundance, and ecological status in the unaffected zone and more pronounced improvement in the trawled zone pointing at a possible link to a decrease in fishing effort. This upturn emphasized the strong link between financial activities and ecology. The present study underlines the multiple and variable effects of economy not only on countries and citizens but also on the environment and ecosystem conservation and management.

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