The Baltic Marine Environment as a Source of Aggregates, and as a Recipient of Dredged Material

Physical and biological impact of marine aggregate extraction along the French coast of the Eastern English Channel: short- and long-term post-dredging restoration

“…Long-term dredging of a stable gravelly area will result in the sea floor being cratered, with removal of a significant thickness of sediment (Winterhalter, 1990;De Groot, 1996). The uneven sea floor topography can cause snagging of bottom trawls in tracks or around boulders exposed by removal of the surrounding substrate (Cruickshank and Hess, 1975).…”