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Intact Lophelia pertusa reef or mound
with a redfish (Sebastes sp.) peering out
Images courtesy of Fisheries and
Oceans Canada/Peches et Oceans Canada
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Gorgonian at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California, USA.
Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI
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Gorgonian at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California, USA.
Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI
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Flytrap Anemone, Davidson Seamount,
Pacific Ocean.
Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI
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Sponge ridge at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California, USA.
Images courtesy of NOAA and
MBARI
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Witch Eel (Nettastomat.) Davidson
Seamount, Pacific Ocean. Midwater eel with elongate snout
with blunt tip and a whip-like tail, living in the Eastern
Pacific, in deep water between 1,000 to 3,500 ft or 530
to 1,800 m.
Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI
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Bathysaur (Bathysaur or Lizardfish),Davidson
Seamount, Pacific Ocean. Silvery, elongate body, with
an adipose fin toward tail and the head flattened and
teeth curved and barbed in a long, lizard-like mouth,
living in Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, usually below 5,400
ft or 1,646 m.
Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI
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Blob Sculpin (Cottidae or Psychrolutidae),
Davidson Seamount, Pacific Ocean. Very large, flabby
sculpin with naked skin, large pectoral fins. Specimens
have small eyes and no pre-opercular spines (usually
in all scorpaeniformes and certainly sculpins). Geographical
Distribution: Northeast Pacific, especially from Monterey
to Oregon, in a depth of 3,000 to 6,000 ft or 1,000 to
2,800 m.
Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI
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Crab on sponge at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California
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Halosaur at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California, USA. Bathysaur (Bathysaur
or Lizardfish). Davidson Seamount, Pacific Ocean. Silvery,
elongate body, with an adipose fin toward tail and the
head flattened and teeth curved and barbed in a long,
lizard-like mouth, living in Atlantic and Pacific Ocean,
usually below 5,400 ft or 1,646 m.
Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI
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Mollusc at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California, USA.
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Sea Spider at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California.
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Sea Spider at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California
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Sea Toad at the Davidson Seamount
off the coast of California, USA.
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Discarded bycatch from the EU bottom
trawler Playa de Menduiña, 24/10/2004.
© Greenpeace/Kate
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Discarded bycatch from the EU bottom
trawler Playa de Menduiña, 24/10/2004.
© Greenpeace/Kate
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Bycatch: Sharks discarded by the
EU bottom trawler Playa de Menduiña.
© Greenpeace/Kate
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Odin, crew member of the Greenpeace
ship Esperanza, holding a large spider crab that has
been caught and killed by EU bottom trawler Playa de
Menduiña, fishing in the Hatton Bank, NE Atlantic,
24/10/2004.
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Lophelia pertusa reef reduced to
rubble from the impact of trawling
Images courtesy of Fisheries
and Oceans Canada/Peches et Oceans Canada
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Orange Roughy on the processing line
of a factory bottom trawler.
© Greenpeace/Duncan
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The heavy metal rollers sitting on
the deck weigh down the bottom lip of the trawl net.
The rollers are responsible for crushing coral and other
life on seamounts and the deep sea floor.
© Greenpeace
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MORE IMAGES
From our members
DEEP SEA LIFE
Corals
Visit
Oceana's Pacific Deep Sea Corals for photos, movies
and maps.
DEEP SEA DESTRUCTION
Bottom Trawling and Bycatch
Save
our seas: Greenpeace images
Images
of New Zealand vessels found bottom trawling in the Tasman
Sea from Greenpeace in New Zealand
Other sources
DEEP SEA LIFE
Corals
Ocean
Explorer NOAA Corals Gallery
Deep
Sea Images – Underwater and Natural History
Stock Image Library
NORFANZ
VOYAGE Photo Library
Deep sea corals such as Lophelia, Paragorgia and
Parmamuricea from Norwegian photographer, Erling Svensen.
Deep-sea corals and associated fauna off the Aleutian Islands, Alaska by deep-sea corals photographer and researcher
Alberto Lindner (Duke University, Durham NC and the Smithsonian Institution), courtesy NOAA fisheries.
Deep Ocean Life
NOAA Ocean Explorer images (and video):
Vertebrates:
Fish / Skates and Eels / Sharks
Invertebrates:
Sponges / Jellyfish, sea anemones / Corals / Sea stars,
brittle stars, and sea urchins / Molluscs / Crabs and
shrimp
More images of deep sea life from underwater photographer, Erling Svensen, such as the Periphylla periphylla, a jellyfish living from 200 to 2500 metres deep.
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