Anthropogenic Impacts on the Corner Rise Seamounts, North-West Atlantic Ocean
Here we report the first direct underwater observations of extensive human-caused impacts on two remote seamounts in the Corner Rise complex (north-western Atlantic). This note documents evidence of anthropogenic damage on the summits of Kukenthal peak (on Corner Seamount) and Yakutat Scamount, like...
| Published in: | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Text |
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DigitalCommons@UMaine
2007
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/sms_facpub/15 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407057785 https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/sms_facpub/article/1014/viewcontent/Waller.87.5.1075.pdf |
| Summary: | Here we report the first direct underwater observations of extensive human-caused impacts on two remote seamounts in the Corner Rise complex (north-western Atlantic). This note documents evidence of anthropogenic damage on the summits of Kukenthal peak (on Corner Seamount) and Yakutat Scamount, likely resulting from a limited Russian fishery from the mid- 1970s to the mid-1990s, highlighting how bottom trawling can have long-term detrimental effects oil deep-water benthic fauna. |
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