Overview of the international fishing activities on the Dogger Bank : update with Dutch, British, Danish, German, Belgian, Swedish and French data for 2010-2015

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Seine fishing on the Dutch and German parts of the Dogger Bank, 2013-2019 : Overview of the economic importance and the ecologic impact of the Belgian, British,Danish, Dutch, French, German and Swedish fleets

“…Comparing this effort with previously available data (calculated from Hamon et al, 2017), we observe a decrease of the annual seine effort from six (average 2010-2015) to three days a year (average 2013-2019) on those management zones. Those values are extremely low compared to the 300 days of annual trawling effort (beam trawls and demersal trawls) on the same management zones observed between 2010 and 2015 (calculated from previous report of Hamon et al, 2017).…”

“…Wageningen Research was tasked to update the previous overview of the fishing activity on the Dogger Bank (Hamon et al, 2017) and to estimate the past and current ecological impact of the seine activity. The potential impact was assessed in 2015 by Rijnsdorp and colleagues (Rijnsdorp, 2015;Rijnsdorp et al, 2015) and, more recent, in specific for the Dogger Bank in 2017 by (Bureau Waardenburg, 2017).…”