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Although there are tens of thousands of seamounts spread throughout the world’s oceans, these undersea featuresare still little-known environments with regard to their biodiversity, their ecology and the short and long-termeffects of human impacts. However, it has become clear in recent years that seamounts host very specialecosystems which are at risk from intensive exploitation of their natural resources.
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Fact, not fiction—corals really do exist, and flourish, hundreds and even thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. In the last few decades, cameras have recorded beautiful gardens of deep sea coral off the coasts of North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand—even deeper than Jules Verne imagined, and every bit as breathtaking. Unlike shallow water coral communities, which are the subject of many nature films, deep sea corals are unfamiliar to the public and even to many marine scientists.
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Review of a selection of habitats, communities and species of the north-east Atlantic.
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This paper describes in detail the concept of Ecosystem-Based Management in marine capture fisheries. It is designed to identify the main issues and propose policies and implementation guidance to help resolve those issues. The following map oft he section contents may help readers to quickly identify areas that refer to specific matters of interest.
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