Cruise Report NOAA Ship McARTHUR II Cruise AR-04-04: Leg 2 (June 1-12, 2004): A pilot survey of deepwater coral/sponge assemblages and their susceptibility to fishing/harvest impacts at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS)

• Main Authors: Hyland, Jeffrey, Cooksey, Cynthia, Bowlby, Ed, Brancato, Mary Sue, Intelmann, Steve
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: NOAA/National Ocean Service/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science 2005
• Subjects: Ecology; Management; Fisheries; McArthur; Lophelia pertusa; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://aquaticcommons.org/2163/; http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/nccos/filedownload.aspx?id=2103; http://aquaticcommons.org/2163/1/NCCOS_TM15.pdf

Summary: The offshore shelf and canyon habitats of the OCNMS (Fig. 1) are areas of high primary productivity and biodiversity that support extensive groundfish fisheries. Recent acoustic surveys conducted in these waters have indicated the presence of hard-bottom substrates believed to harbor unique...