Could population and community indicators contribute to identify the driver factors and describe the dynamic in the Flemish Cap demersal assemblages?

Flemish Cap is an isolated fishing ground located in the international waters of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area (NAFO). In the last decades, the Flemish Cap demersal community has been subjected to strong and variable fishing intensities affecting different stocks over time. In this work, three ecological indices for individual populations (abundance, biomass, and intrinsic population rate of growth) and five community indicators (total abundance and biomass, community synchrony, ABC curves and proportion of non-commercial/commercial species) have been applied to data of 29... Mehr ...