Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review

A Pessarrodona, RM Franco‐Santos… - Biological …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The conservation, restoration, and improved management of terrestrial forests significantly
contributes to mitigate climate change and its impacts, as well as providing numerous co …

Good fisheries management is good carbon management

NF Andersen, EL Cavan, WWL Cheung… - npj Ocean …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Climate change is causing persistent, widespread, and significant impacts on marine
ecosystems which are predicted to interact and intensify. Overfishing and associated habitat …

[HTML][HTML] Ocean conservation boosts climate change mitigation and adaptation

J Jacquemont, R Blasiak, C Le Cam, M Le Gouellec… - One Earth, 2022‏ - cell.com
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being promoted as an ocean-based climate
solution. However, such claims remain controversial because of the diffuse and poorly …

Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling

JG Hiddink, SJ van de Velde, RA McConnaughey… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Bottom trawling disrupts natural carbon flows in seabed ecosystems owing to sediment
mixing, resuspension and changes in the biological community. Sala et al. 1 suggest that …

Evaluating the sustainability and environmental impacts of trawling compared to other food production systems

R Hilborn, R Amoroso, J Collie… - ICES Journal of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Mobile bottom contact gear such as trawls is widely considered to have the highest
environmental impact of commonly used fishing gears, with concern about impact on benthic …

Atmospheric CO2 emissions and ocean acidification from bottom-trawling

TB Atwood, A Romanou, T DeVries… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Trawling the seafloor can disturb carbon that took millennia to accumulate, but the fate of
that carbon and its impact on climate and ecosystems remains unknown. Using satellite …

Deep-living and diverse Antarctic seaweeds as potentially important contributors to global carbon fixation

LW Tait, C Chin, W Nelson, S George… - … earth & environment, 2024‏ - nature.com
Global models predict that Antarctica has little suitable habitat for macroalgae and that
Antarctic macroalgae therefore make a negligible contribution to global carbon fixation …

Rethinking sustainability of marine fisheries for a fast-changing planet

C Roberts, C Béné, N Bennett, JS Boon… - npj Ocean …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Many seafood products marketed as “sustainable” are not. More exacting sustainability
standards are needed to respond to a fast-changing world and support United Nations …

[HTML][HTML] Predictive map** of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin

G Epstein, SD Fuller, D Hingmire… - Earth System …, 2024‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Quantification and map** of surficial seabed sediment organic carbon have wide-scale
relevance for marine ecology, geology and environmental resource management, with …

Odontocete cetaceans foraging behind trawlers, worldwide

S Bonizzoni, S Hamilton, RR Reeves, T Genov… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2022‏ - Springer
Several populations of odontocete cetaceans, including at least 19 species, have modified
their behavior and adapted to foraging in association with trawlers. We review information …