No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific

Mongabay
Apr 22, 2024, 2:56 pm162 pts
The Emperor Seamount Chain is a massive and richly biodiverse set of underwater mountains stretching about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) south from the Aleutian Islands in the northwest Pacific. From the 1960s until the 1980s, bottom trawlers plied the area aggressively, decimating deep-sea coral communities…

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