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SoundNet - Ocean Crisis Caused by Destructive Fishing
U.S. is one example. Hundreds or thousands of years old, these living corals can be destroyed with a ...
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Ghostnets of Canada - All life stops here!
The soft corals and very colourful but strange looking bubblegum trees are instantly chewed up by the killnet, while the hard red tree corals are broken up by the forces pulling on the nets. The harder corals act as support, spreading the invisible webs out like ...
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Introduction
FP6 of the European Union. Random findings of coldwater corals on mud volcanoes have shown that these topographic highs serve as habitats for the corals, whereas their regional distribution appears to be ... cold-water corals in the northern Gulf of Cádiz which is characterized by the strongest Mediterranean Outflow. From this northern area there are hints for the occurrence of coldwater corals from ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - In Dead Water - Coral Reefs
Figure 7:Distribution of coldwater and tropical coral reefs. The coldwater reefs are highly susceptible to deep-sea trawling and ocean acidification ... their tentacles, and also through the association with symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae. Stony corals deposit calcium carbonate, which over time forms the geological reef structure. Many other ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - In Dead Water - Ocean Acidification
The skeletons of coldwater coral reefs may dissolve, perhaps already within a few decades. The impacts will be ...
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Europe, including rocky reefs covered in soft corals, sea fans and sponges, shallow beds of delicate pink maerl, a coral-like seaweed and ... , sea grass beds home to pipefish, horsemussel beds rich in life and, in deeper waters, coldwater coral reefs. Marine life under threat However, fishing trawls and dredges plough up vulnerable seabeds ...
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