24 March, 2023
10 March, 2023
The 8th Meeting of the Scientific Committee (SC8) will take place from to in Tenerife, Spain.
You can find the DSCC’s priorities for the protection of seamounts and other topographical features in areas beyond national jurisdiction in the Southern Indian Ocean here.
19 September, 2022
As NAFO Contracting Parties meet for the first in person Annual Meeting since 2019, it is both important to reflect upon progress that has been made and where NAFO can continue to ensure that it fully upholds its modernized Convention, meets obligations to protect biodiversity in areas under its jurisdiction and advances best practices in fisheries management.
Read the DSCC’s NAFO Checklist for Success here.
18 March, 2022
15 March, 2022
SUBMISSION TO SPRFMO Bottom Fishing Intersessional Working Group Participant Questionnaire
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2 September, 2021
Papers submitted
- Watling and Auster (2021). Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Communities, and Indicator Species: Confusing Concepts for Conservation of Seamounts
- Download here
- Currie and Weeber (2021) The Precautionary Approach and Ecosystem Approach in the context of Prevention of Significant Adverse Impacts on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
- Download here
2 August, 2021
Authors: Katrina Goddard, Karli Thomas, Barry Weeber
Together with Greenpeace Aotearoa, WWF-NZ, Forest and Bird, LegaSea, New Zealand Sport Fishing Council, Our Seas Our Future, and Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand (ECO), the DSCC is calling on the New Zealand government to ban bottom trawling on seamounts.
Continue reading REPORT: Save deep sea corals- ban bottom trawling on seamounts
16 April, 2021
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition’s (DSCC) 2020 Report informs on Fisheries, Deep Seabed Mining and Ocean Governance.
- Available in English.
24 March, 2021
Seamounts are fragile and biologically diverse marine ecosystems that are vulnerable to deep-sea fisheries activities and, increasingly, other human impacts.
This briefing examines the current state of seamount science and protection. It summarizes who continues to fish in these unique habitats and presents a case for urgent and intensified political action to protect these biodiversity hotspots.
- Available in English.
10 November, 2020
The DSCC and Seas At Risk attended the 39th Annual Meeting of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) held virtually from 10-13 November 2020. Below are their submissions:
- Opening Statement, available in English