Document Type

Article

Anthropogenic Impacts on the Corner Rise Seamounts, North-West Atlantic Ocean

Authors

Rhian Waller, University of Maine - MainFollow
Les Watling, University of Maine - MainFollow
P. Auster
T. Shank

Publication Title

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Publication Date

10-1-2007

First Page

1075

Last Page

1076

Issue Number

5

Volume Number

87

Abstract/ 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.

Repository Citation

Waller, Rhian; Watling, Les; Auster, P.; and Shank, T., "Anthropogenic Impacts on the Corner Rise Seamounts, North-West Atlantic Ocean" (2007). Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship. 15.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/sms_facpub/15

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Waller R, Watling L, Auster P, Shank T. Anthropogenic Impacts on the Corner Rise Seamounts, North-West Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 2007;87(5): 1075-1076. Available on publisher's site at http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0025315407057785

Publisher Statement

Copyright 2007 Cambridge University Press.

DOI

10.1017/S0025315407057785

Version

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