Adapting the marine stewardship council’s risk-based framework to assess the impact of towed bottom fishing gear on blue carbon habitats

• Kate Morris ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kjm2001@hw.ac.uk

  Affiliation The Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-1265

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• Graham Epstein,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, United Kingdom, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9881-4779

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• Michel J. Kaiser,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Joanne Porter,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Island Technology, Heriot-Watt University Orkney, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5878-3912

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• Andrew F. Johnson

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, MarFishEco Fisheries Consultants Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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