Surveys for lobster larvae in offshore waters of the north‐eastern Gulf of Maine in 1983, 1987 and 1989 confirm that local hatching occurs mainly at depths

We conducted a 3‐year experiment on the effects of otter trawling on benthic habitat and communities on a sandy‐bottom ecosystem of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland that has supported commercial fisheries. Each year, three 13‐km‐long corridors were trawled 12 times with an Engel 145 otter trawl, creating a disturbance zone 120–250 m wide. Using a variety of oceanographic instruments, measurements were made before and after traw...