Assessment of Bottom Trawl Impacts on the Status of Seabed Communities in European Seas

Jan Geert Hiddink; Sebastian Valanko; Luke Batts; Esther D. Beukhof; Mats Blomqvist; Stefan Bolam; Belén Calero; Michele Casini; Marina Delgado; Jochen Depestele; Joanna Desmidt; Gabriele Di Bona; Bianca Di Lorenzo; Grete E. Dinesen; Gianfranco D'Onghia; Josefine Egekvist; Emanuela Fanelli; Maria Teresa Farriols; Gianluca Franceschini; Juan Gil; José Manuel González-Irusta; Pascal Laffargue; Irida Maina; Porzia Maiorano; Renato Mamede; Maria Cristina Mangano; Alessandra Nguyen Xuan; Nadia Papadopoulou; Marina Penna; Andrea Pierucci; Marina Pulcini; Sasa Raicevich; Arnold Rakaj; Sofia Reizopoulou; Giada Riva; Tommaso Russo; Antonello Sala; Gianluca Sarà; Alice Sbrana; Giuseppe Scarcella; Marija Sciberras; Mattias Sköld; Chris J. Smith; Ignacio Sobrino; Maria Teresa Spedicato; Valentina Todorova; Irini Tsikopoulou; Karin J. van der Reijden; Sandrine Vaz; Cristina Vina-Herbon; Nedo Vrgoc; Katherine Wright; Wenyan Zhang; Walter Zupa; Gert van Hoey; Ole Ritzau Eigaard; Tobias van Kooten; P. Daniël van Denderen

doi:10.1111/faf.70054

Assessment of Bottom Trawl Impacts on the Status of Seabed Communities in European Seas

Jan Geert Hiddink
, Sebastian Valanko
, Luke Batts
, Esther D. Beukhof
, Mats Blomqvist
, Stefan Bolam
, Belén Calero
, Michele Casini
, Marina Delgado
, Jochen Depestele
, Joanna Desmidt
, Gabriele Di Bona
, Bianca Di Lorenzo
, Grete E. Dinesen
, Gianfranco D'Onghia
, Josefine Egekvist
, Emanuela Fanelli
, Maria Teresa Farriols
, Gianluca Franceschini
, Juan Gil

José Manuel González-Irusta, Pascal Laffargue, Irida Maina, Porzia Maiorano, Renato Mamede, Maria Cristina Mangano, Alessandra Nguyen Xuan, Nadia Papadopoulou, Marina Penna, Andrea Pierucci, Marina Pulcini, Sasa Raicevich, Arnold Rakaj, Sofia Reizopoulou, Giada Riva, Tommaso Russo, Antonello Sala, Gianluca Sarà, Alice Sbrana, Giuseppe Scarcella, Marija Sciberras, Mattias Sköld, Chris J. Smith, Ignacio Sobrino, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Valentina Todorova, Irini Tsikopoulou, Karin J. van der Reijden, Sandrine Vaz, Cristina Vina-Herbon, Nedo Vrgoc, Katherine Wright, Wenyan Zhang, Walter Zupa, Gert van Hoey, Ole Ritzau Eigaard, Tobias van Kooten, P. Daniël van Denderen

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Original language	English
Journal	Fish and Fisheries
Volume	n/a
Issue number	n/a
Early online date	13 Jan 2026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.70054
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Jan 2026

Keywords

beam trawl
benthic ecosystems
demersal seines
ecosystem approach to fisheries management
impact assessment
mobile bottom gears
otter trawl
scallop dredge

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Hiddink, J. G., Valanko, S., Batts, L., Beukhof, E. D., Blomqvist, M., Bolam, S., Calero, B., Casini, M., Delgado, M., Depestele, J., Desmidt, J., Di Bona, G., Di Lorenzo, B., Dinesen, G. E., D'Onghia, G., Egekvist, J., Fanelli, E., Farriols, M. T., Franceschini, G., ... van Denderen, P. D. (2026). Assessment of Bottom Trawl Impacts on the Status of Seabed Communities in European Seas. Fish and Fisheries, n/a(n/a). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.70054

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