. Cold-water Coral Reefs: out of sight - no longer out of mind. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 22. Trawl mark along a coral-covered carbonate mound, eastern Rockall Trough Close-up of a trawled coral area in the Rockall Trough with smashed L. pertusa sea floor. The densest living coral cover is on the sumnnits of mounds where current flow is generally highest. The reefs are home to a rich associated invertebrate and fish fauna. As on the Norwegian Shelf, the entire area is subjected to deep-sea fishery activities, Including intense demersal trawling since 1989 (Gordon, 20031. The mam target spe
. Cold-water Coral Reefs: out of sight - no longer out of mind. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 22. Trawl mark along a coral-covered carbonate mound, eastern Rockall Trough Close-up of a trawled coral area in the Rockall Trough with smashed L. pertusa sea floor. The densest living coral cover is on the sumnnits of mounds where current flow is generally highest. The reefs are home to a rich associated invertebrate and fish fauna. As on the Norwegian Shelf, the entire area is subjected to deep-sea fishery activities, Including intense demersal trawling since 1989 (Gordon, 20031. The mam target species are blue ling {Molva dypterygia], roundnose grenadier [Coryphaenoides rupestris], blacl< scabbard- fish [Aphanopus carbo] and orange roughy [Hoplostethus atlanticus], and some deep-water sharks. Although no quantitative analysis of the state of coral ecosystems in the wider Rocl<all-Porcupine area has yet been undertaken, damage created by trawls and. Hi East and west fields of dense mounds l^.'-l Extent of mounds I 1 Limit of EU bottom trawling closed area UK continental shielf limit Land Figure 19: The Darwin Mounds area, which is within the UK 200 nautical mile fisheries limit off northwestern Scotland, and is closed to bottom trawling under European Council Regulation No 602/2004 jncc U. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Freiwald, A. , Fosså, J. H. , Grehan, A. , Koslow, T. , Roberts, J. UNEP-WCMC
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