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Portugal to nominate new MPA
World Fishing | 31 Jan 2013
The Gorringe seamounts have been nominated by the Portuguese government to become a Marine Protected Area.

World Fisheries: are we managing an effective decline?
World Fishing | 15 Jan 2013
With more fishing grounds around the world reaching the point of depletion, are there any productive areas left to fish or are those being over-targeted too? Adrian Tatum reports.

Fisheries | Marine Management | Seamount

New Chilean fisheries laws
World Fishing | 31 Dec 2012
Chile has established a set of new fisheries laws protecting underwater sea mountains, limiting bycatch and setting science based quotas, protecting 150,000km of marine habitat.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Marine Protected Area | Seamount

Litter threatens new species in Gorringe bank
World Fishing | 25 Oct 2012
Marine organisation, Oceana, has highlighted that litter and fishing gear has been found among new species in major European seamount, the Gorringe bank.

Atlantic Ocean | Biodiversity | Fisheries | Seamount

OCEANA finds NEVER before SEEN SPECIES and LITTER in the GORRINGE SEAMOUNTS
fishupdate.com | 19 Oct 2012
Litter and fishing gear found alongside hundreds of species in Gorringe Seamounts.

Atlantic Ocean | Biodiversity | Marine Debris | Seamount

Watch video LIVE from the seafloor as NOAA and partners explore deep-sea volcanoes
NOAA | 17 Sep 2012
With just a computer or a mobile device, you can virtually join a NOAA-led team of 35 international scientists as they explore seafloor volcanoes. Watch live video from the deep sea and hear shipboard scientists describe their discoveries as they explore submarine volcanoes in the Western Pacific's Lau Basin, centered between Samoa, Fiji and Tonga.

Pacific Ocean | Research | Seamount

The submarine volcano of El Hierro Island continues its degassing
ScienceDaily.com | 23 Apr 2012
Researchers have found that the submarine volcano of El Hierro (Canary Islands) continues expelling gases, which are primarily carbon dioxide. No sulfur compounds were detected.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seamount

Expedition to undersea mountain yields new information about sub-seafloor structure
EurekAlert | 27 Mar 2012
(National Science Foundation) Scientists recently concluded an expedition aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to learn more about Atlantis Massif, an undersea mountain, or seamount, that formed in a very different way than the majority of the seafloor in the oceans.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seamount

First case added to international repository of ecologically or biologically significant marine area...
cbd.int | 17 Feb 2012
The Josephine Seamount, located in the Horse-shoe Seamount Group of the Atlantic Ocean has been added to the prototype online repository that scientifically describes ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs).

Atlantic Ocean | Biodiversity | Seamount

Species found on Portugal seamount
Guardian Unlimited | 25 Aug 2011
An expedition by Oceana in the Portuguese Atlantic has identified more than 100 marine species on Gorringe seamount

Atlantic Ocean | Biodiversity | Seamount

Scientists discover new eruption at undersea volcano, after successfully forecasting the event
EurekAlert | 10 Aug 2011
(Oregon State University) A team of scientists just discovered a new eruption of Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast -- and one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts in the world. The event is intriguing because the scientists had forecast the eruption starting five years ago -- the first successful forecast of an undersea volcano.

Pacific Ocean | Seamount

Where Can You Hide 12 Volcanoes? (Hint: It's Big and Blue)
New York Times | 26 Jul 2011
A survey of a remote stretch of the South Atlantic reveals a chain of volcanoes.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seamount

Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean
ScienceDaily.com | 12 Jul 2011
Scientists have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technology during research cruises onboard the RRS James Clark Ross, the scientists found 12 volcanoes beneath the sea surface -- some up to 3 km high. They found 5 km diameter craters left by collapsing volcanoes and seven active volcanoes visible above the sea as a chain of islands.

Pacific Ocean | Research | Seamount

Costa Rica Protects Vast Pacific Ocean Expanse
Environment News Service | 11 Mar 2011
Costa Rica has greatly expanded a marine protected area surrounding Cocos Island National Park, safeguarding a total of 2,900 nautical square miles (one million hectares) still rich with endangered sharks and sea turtles.

Pacific Ocean | Marine Protected Area | Seamount

OCEANA APPLAUDS SPANISH AND BALEARIC GOVERNMENT SUPPORT TO PROTECT BALEARIC SEAMOUNTS
fishupdate.com | 08 Mar 2011
Oceana says it is pleased with the announcement made today by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs concerning its commitment to protect the seamounts of the Channel of Mallorca, one of the areas in? the Spanish Mediterranean with the highest levels of biodiversity.

Mediterranean Sea | Conservation | Seamount

Scientists delve into 'hotspot' volcanoes along Pacific Ocean Seamount Trail
EurekAlert | 15 Feb 2011
(National Science Foundation) Nearly half a mile of rock retrieved from beneath the seafloor is yielding new clues about how underwater volcanoes are created and whether the hotspots that led to their formation have moved over time.

Pacific Ocean | Seamount

A Hunt for Unusual Seafloor Animals and Vents
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 10 Jan 2011
The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Caribbean's Mid-Cayman Rise revealed evidence for three active vent sites, each with distinctive chemical characteristics that could support different communities of animals.

Atlantic Ocean | Biodiversity | Seamount

Marine scientists unveil the mystery of life on undersea mountains
EurekAlert | 21 Sep 2010
They challenge the mountain ranges of the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas in size yet surprisingly little is known about seamounts, the vast mountains hidden under the world's oceans. Now in a special issue of Marine Ecology scientists uncover the mystery of life on these submerged mountain ranges and reveal why these under studied ecosystems are under threat.

Seamount

Volcano collapse underlines threat of tsunami
New Zealand Herald | 17 Aug 2010
A huge undersea volcano not far from the coast has dramatically reduced in size after partly collapsing more than 100 metres toward the ocean floor.National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research scientists found that a volcanic...

Pacific Ocean | Natural Hazard | Seamount

NOAA Ship Explores Undersea Volcano More Than 10,000-ft. High, Maps Indonesian Ocean Seafloor
NOAA | 12 Jul 2010
In the first week of a joint Indonesia - U.S. exploration of the deep ocean north of Sulawesi, Indonesia, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer's built-in multibeam sonar mapped a huge undersea volcano while cameras on the ships remotely-operated vehicle took high-definition images of the feature called Kawio Barat, referring to the ocean area west of Kawio Islands.

Pacific Ocean | Deep Sea | Seamount

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