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Gulf of Alaska Seamounts
Gulf of Alaska Seamounts Locator Map | Glossary | MCBI WebsiteLARGE TEXT NORMAL TEXT NORTHERN PACIFIC AND ARCTIC Gulf of Alaska Seamount Chains Mountain ranges aren't only on land—indeed, some of the world ... ) Bamboo coral polyp. Photo:NOAA The Patton Seamount Chain is part of the Gulf of Alaska Seamounts. Click to enlarge. Deep sea coral in the Gulf of Alaska .
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From Sea to Shining Sea: Exploring America's Ocean Realms
Arctic Ocean-Beaufort Sea Gulf of Alaska Seamounts Aleutian Islands Glacier Bay Mariana Trench American Samoa NW Hawaiian Islands Midway Juan de Fuca ...
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Office of Habitat Conservation
Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico primarily along continental shelves, slopes, canyons, ocean ridges and seamounts. Scientists have identified a number of locations in the U.S. EEZ with extensive coral ... (Primnoa, Paragorgia and Calligorgia spp) along the continental shelf and slope along the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands; Deep-sea precious corals in Hawaii; Deep-water Primnoa resedaeformis and ...
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Voyage to the Aleutian Islands: Understanding Alaska’s Deep Sea Frontiers
Study sites: Site (1): Ugamak Slide - Team 1 Lead: Tony Rathburn; (2) Derikson and Sirius Seamounts - Team 1 Lead: Randy Keller; (3) Deep water coral distribution - Team 1 Lead: Robert Stone ... right: slab of siltstone, from an outcrop on the seafloor. Photo: Jennifer Reynolds, University of Alaska Fairbanks. At the same location, biologists collected depth transects that will yield some of the ...
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NURC-WCPR
Polar Regions Undersea Research Center operates in the waters offshore of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and the Arctic and Antarctic. Fisheries within the region are of major economic importance ... subduction zones and fault zones; cold seeps and gas hydrate deposits; submarine canyons; seamounts; and volcanically active mid-ocean ridges. To support research of this geologically unique ...
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Ocean Conservation Links: Organizations/Networks
Rate It Alaska Oceans Network http://www.alaskaoceans.net/index.htm a voluntary association of conservation, fishing, ... Rate It Deep Sea Conservation Coalition http://www.savethehighseas.org/ working together to protect seamounts, cold-water corals and vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems Rate It Ecoports http://www.ecoports. ...
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WWF - Fishing problems: Destructive fishing practices
These trawls - whose use is now widespread - are extremely damaging. In an experiment off Alaska, 55% of cold-water coral damaged by one pass of a trawl had not recovered ... the reefs of the north-east Atlantic Ocean. And in heavily fished areas around coral seamounts off southern Australia, 90% of the surfaces where coral used to grow are now bare ...
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The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition - Recent News
More Seamounts: rest stops and filling stations for tuna and swordfish 11 September 2006 Seamounts (underwater mountains) serve as oceanic filling stations or rest ... fishing council banned bottom trawling this month over more than 370,000 square miles off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the largest such action taken anywhere in the world. More Iceland and ...
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Office of Habitat Protection Division
Protection Division Index Cover & Table of Contents Chapter 1 : Introduction and Overview Chapter 2 : Alaska Chapter 3 : Pacific Coast Chapter 4 : Hawaii and Pacific Islands Chapter 5 : Northeast ... than previously known. Researchers have discovered multicolored sea fan corals in canyons and on seamounts in the Northeast Atlantic, complex reef-like stony coral structures on the continental shelf ...
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