Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Annual Review 2012

AEBAR 2012: Protected species: Seabirds
Figure 5.4: Map of trawl fishing effort and all observed seabird captures in trawls, October 2003 to
September 2011. Fishing effort is mapped into 0.2-degree cells, with the colour of each cell being related
to the amount of effort (events). Observed fishing events are indicated by black dots, and observed
captures are indicated by red dots. Fishing is shown only if the effort could be assigned a latitude and
longitude, and if there were three or more vessels fishing within a cell (here, 96% of effort is displayed).
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