Pew urges reforms to deep-sea fishing regulations
26 January 2012
The European Commission is preparing to release its deep-sea access regime proposal before the end of the first quarter of 2012. In a new policy analysis, “Out of the Abyss: Transforming EU Rules to Protect the Deep Sea,” the Pew Environment Group offers viable solutions to ensure the sustainability and protection of threatened deep-sea biodiversity.
Underwater archaeology: Hunt for the ancient mariner
25 January 2012
The impact of bottom trawling is "devastating" for marine archeologists' says Robert Ballard, deep-sea explorer and the discoverer of the Titanic, in a news feature published today online by Nature
Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage
19 January 2012
Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical and overhanging sides of submarine canyons 1350 metres below the surface of the Bay of Biscay.
Whole new marine ecology discoverd at deep water antarctic vents
6 January 2012
Oceanographers exploring some of the most remote deep-sea hot springs ever found have discovered what they say is a "riot of life" in a distinct biological zone that no one knew existed.
September 2011
Unfinished business: a review of the implementation of the provisions of United Nations General Assembly resolutions 61/105 and 64/72, related to the management of bottom fisheries in
areas beyond national jurisdiction
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