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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
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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 High-resolution image |
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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 Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI |
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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. Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI |
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Sea Spider at the Davidson Seamount off the coast of California. Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI |
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Sea Spider at the Davidson Seamount off the coast of California Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI |
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Sea Toad at the Davidson Seamount off the coast of California, USA. Images courtesy of NOAA and MBARI |
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Discarded bycatch from the EU bottom trawler Playa de Menduiña, 24/10/2004. © Greenpeace/Kate Davison |
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Discarded bycatch from the EU bottom trawler Playa de Menduiña, 24/10/2004. © Greenpeace/Kate Davison |
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Bycatch: Sharks discarded by the EU bottom trawler Playa de Menduiña. © Greenpeace/Kate Davison |
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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. © Greenpeace/Kate Davison |
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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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Bottom trawl net on winch. New Zealand 1990. © Greenpeace |
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Anchor on Lophelia reef, Norway Photo credit: Jan Helge Fossaa, IMR |
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Trawl Marks on Lophelia reef, Norway Photo credit: Jan Helge Fossaa, IMR |
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Damaged coral, Norway Photo credit: Jan Helge Fossaa, IMR |
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Trawl Marks on Lophelia reef, Norway Photo credit: Jan Helge Fossaa, IMR |
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Fishing gear on Lophelia reef, Norway Photo credit: Jan Helge Fossaa, IMR |
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Trawl Marks on Lophelia reef, Norway Photo credit: Jan Helge Fossaa, IMR |
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Trawl marks on Oculina reef, Atlantic Florida Photo credit:
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Trawl marks on Oculina reef, Atlantic Florida Photo credit: HBOI/NOAA/USGS |
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Oculina rubble, Atlantin Florida Photo credit: HBOI/NOAA/USGS |
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Trawl net on Oculina reef, Atlantic Florida Photo credit: HBOI/NOAA/USGS |
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Oculina coral head wrapped in longline Photo credit: HBOI/NOAA/USGS |
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Fishing gear on Lophelia reef, Norway Photo credit: HBOI/NOAA/USGS |
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