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Anthropogenic impacts on the Corner Rise seamounts, north-west Atlantic Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2007

Rhian Waller ,
Les Watling ,
Peter Auster  and
Timothy Shank
Rhian Waller
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Les Watling
Affiliation:
Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Walpole, ME 04573, USA Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Peter Auster
Affiliation:
National Undersea Research Center, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, USA
Timothy Shank
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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Abstract

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 Kükenthal peak (on Corner Seamount) and Yakutat Seamount, 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 on deep-water benthic fauna.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 87 , Issue 5 , October 2007 , pp. 1075 - 1076
Copyright
2007 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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