Tag: Jeremy Collie

GSO professor part of a worldwide study on impacts of bottom trawling on health of seabeds

A fishing trawler pulls into harbor with numerous gulls flying around it.

A worldwide study on the impacts of bottom trawling, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s seafood harvest and can negatively affect marine ecosystems, has found that seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed.

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URI scientists create model to simulate changing food web in Narragansett Bay

Graduate students Annie Innes-Gold and Maggie Heinichen pose with a fish in a lab.

URI GSO scientists are creating a series of computer models of the food web of Narragansett Bay to predict how fish abundance will change as water temperatures rise, nutrient inputs vary, and fishing pressure fluctuates.

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New analysis reveals ocean trawling’s global footprint smaller than earlier estimates

A beam trawler (a type of fishing trawler) sits at a dock.

Bottom trawl fishing occurs on just 14 percent of the seafloor along continental shelves and slopes according to a new global analysis resulting from research by nearly five dozen scientists including GSO professor Jeremy Collie.

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