Hiddink, J. G., et al. (2023).“Quantifying the Carbon Benefits of Ending Bottom Trawling”, Nature, 617(7960), E1-E2.
We do not know enough about the impact of trawling on seabed carbon. There are context-dependent responses of the sediment metabolism to trawling, varying between positive and negative effects depending on the studied metric and location. The volume of sediment where carbon is mineralized after trawling is greatly overestimated
