At 08:58 PM 3/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Ross,
>The April edition of Smithsonian magazine has an article you might be
>interested in. It is titled "We're Scraping Bottom" and describes the
>effect of Drag Nets and Dredges on the seabed biome. It also mentions that
>the December issue of Conservation Biology carries 7 reports on what fishing
>does to the ocean bottom. For those of us who don't subscribe Smithsonians
>web site is www. smithsonianmag.si.edu Look under April 99 at Columns:
>Phenomena, Comments and Notes. I don't know if "Conservation Biology" has a
>web site.
The exact URL for the article is
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/apr99/phenom_apr99.html
and there is a link to Conservation Biology. The URL for the December
issue of Conservation Biology is
http://conbio.rice.edu/scb/journal/12-98toc.shtml#start
but it only lists the titles, not the contents of the reports.