Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling

Dr. Charlotte Jarvis is a maritime archaeologist and historian with degrees from Texas A&M and Durham University. She works with The Ocean Foundation as an underwater cultural heritage consultant highlighting how UCH and natural heritage is connected and must be preserved. Her interest and research in the topic stems from a presentation at the European Archaeologist Conference. Through working with TOF for more than a year on a number of projects, including helping edit and write a chapter of a cultural heritage legal book with Ole Varmer, research that was presented to the International Seabed Authority on deep-seabed mining and its impact on archaeology, and legal gap analysis work for the Mariana Islands. Her previous work has focused on marine climate change, with an interest in early modern sailors' beliefs and how we can use history to inform environmental policies and concentrated her university coursework on marine policy and coastal resiliency planning.

She currently holds a research position at Het Scheepvaartmuseum (National Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam. Here, she worked on studying Dutch sailors' alcohol consumption and how it impacted their reputations. This resulted in a number of peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and an exhibition in the museum. She is now researching Dutch wooden shipbuilding and underwater archaeology, with an active role in a number of upcoming exhibitions, book chapters, and further presentations. Here, she applies her knowledge from Texas A&M's rigorous program in underwater archaeology and her experience in several terrestrial archaeological projects in Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.

Foreword: The importance of integrating cultural heritage into the UN Ocean Decade.- 1. Introduction.- 2. History of Trawling and Ecological Impact.- 3. The Duty to Protect Our Ocean Heritage from Bottom Trawling.- 4. Quantification of bottom trawl damage to ancient shipwrecks: A case study from the coastal waters of Turkey.- 5. Wreck sites as systems disrupted by trawling.- 6. Multi-use and Multi-vocal Challenges of Preserving Underwater Cultural Heritage in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.- 7. Underwater Cultural Heritage and Fishing Communities: safeguarding heritage and safeguarding fishers.- 8. Beneath a Façade: The Unscientific Justification of Treasure Salvage.- 9. Conclusion: Looking Forward.