This study reports temporal variations in the environmental conditions and the structure of fish assemblages observed in the vicinity of an offshore oil platform and the surrounding seafloor in the North Sea.
Fowler, A. M., P. I. Macreadie, D. P. Bishop, and D. J. Booth
Over 7500 oil and gas structures (e.g. oil platforms) are installed in offshore waters worldwide and many will require decommissioning within the next two decades. The decision to remove such structures or turn them into reefs (i.e.
The Regina (R p) and Annalisa (A p) gas platforms, placed in the northern Adriatic Sea at different depths and distances from the coast, were monitored for 3 yr to evaluate changes induced by their construction on natural-habitat fish assemblages.
Fabi, G., F. Grati, A. Lucchetti, and L. Trovarelli
Effects induced on the fish assemblage by the gas platform “Regina”, installed in October 1997 in the northern Adriatic Sea (depth 21 m), were investigated by monthly sampling with a trammel net near the platform and at an open-sea control site.
Emery, B. M., L. Washburn, M. S. Love, M. N. Nishimoto, and J. C. Ohlmann
To investigate the possibility that oil and gas platforms may reduce recruitment of rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) to natural habitat, we simulated drift pathways (termed “trajectories” in our model) from an existing oil platform to nearshore habitat using
The most controversial fishery in U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) is for northern red snapper Lutjanus campechanus, which collapsed in the late 1980s when stock biomass became too low to be fished commercially in the eastern Gulf.
Consoli, P., F. Andaloro, M. Ferraro,and C. Alberti
In the last decades the ecological role of off-shore platforms as a suitable habitat for fish species has been acknowledged in the context of marine conservation and investigated by an increasing number of studies.
