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Infra-red video of fish on Hatton Bank

  • Posted by Andy
  • August 31, 2008

During June/July 2008, I was once again privilaged to join my Dutch colleagues on the RV Pelagia, a magnificent research ship from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. The cruise yielded a huge area of multibeam bathymetry, physical oceanography and insights into the biodiversity of the area.
One particularly notable attempt was to quantify and [...]

Preserving deep-sea natural heritage: Emerging issues in offshore conservation and management

  • Posted by Andy
  • April 6, 2008

Andrew J. Davies, J. Murray Roberts, Jason Hall-Spencer

Published in Biological Conservation (2007)

Human activity in the deep sea is extending ever deeper, with recent research showing that this environment is more sensitive to human and natural impacts than previously thought. Some deep-water fish stocks have collapsed and fishing methods such as bottom trawling have raised international [...]