The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition today called on the German government to lead the effort at European Council to phase-out deep-sea bottom trawling in the Northeast Atlantic to protect the biologically rich areas of the deep-sea in European waters.
Continue reading DSCC urges Germany to champion deep-sea conservation in Northeast Atlantic
DSCC urges UK to champion deep-sea conservation in Northeast Atlantic
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition today called on the UK government to lead the effort at European Council to phase-out deep-sea bottom trawling in the Northeast Atlantic to protect the biologically rich areas of the deep-sea in European waters.
Continue reading New findings: Deep-sea bottom trawling represents a major threat to the ecosystem
Source: Huff Post, TED Weekends
Author: Richard Steiner
It may be understandable that a terrestrial primate such as ourselves would pay little attention to a world so foreign, inaccessible, and inhospitable as the deep sea, but with growing threats to the region, it’s time we do so.
Continue reading Protecting Earth’s Final Frontier — The Deep Sea
UK scientists exploring the ocean floor in the Caribbean have discovered an “astounding” set of hydrothermal vents, the deepest anywhere in the world. Deploying a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) in the Cayman Trough, they stumbled across a previously-unknown site nearly 5000m below the surface.
Continue reading Deepest undersea vents discovered by UK team
Source: Oceans Inc
Author: Reuters
A dispute between Papua New Guinea and Canada‘s Nautilus Minerals threatens to sink plans to mine gold and other metals for the first time from the ocean floor.
Continue reading Papua New Guinea sea floor mining project in jeopardy
Source: NZ Herald
Author: APNZ
Hairy crabs, fanged worms and midget lobsters are the latest freakish lifeforms dredged up by scientists exploring the sea volcanos of the Kermadec Ridge.
Oceanographers exploring some of the most remote deep-sea hot springs ever found have discovered what they say is a “riot of life” in a distinct biological zone that no one knew existed.
Continue reading Whole new marine ecology discoverd at deep water antarctic vents
THE Irish-led VENTuRE scientific expedition aboard the national research vessel RV Celtic Explorer has discovered a previously uncharted field of hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – the first to be explored north of the Azores.
Continue reading Uncharted hydrothermal vents discovered on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
(Montreal, PQ) Conservation organizations from across Canada and Europe have called on the European Union, Canada, Russia, Iceland, Norway, Japan, the United States and the other member nations of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) to urgently agree to protect deep-sea species in the Northwest Atlantic. A special session of NAFO meets this week in Montreal to decide on regulations to protect cold-water corals and other vulnerable deep-sea species from deep-sea bottom fisheries on the high seas.
Continue reading TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR NAFO TO PROTECT DEEP-SEA SPECIES
High seas fishing nations failed to agree to comprehensive protection of cold-water corals and other vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems on the high seas of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean at the annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), which concluded in Lisbon today. In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly (UN GA) called on NAFO and other regional fisheries management bodies to urgently protect highly vulnerable and unique deep-sea ecosystems such as seamounts, cold-water corals and hydrothermal vents from the destructive impact of bottom fishing.
Continue reading Deep sea conservation deep sixed in the Northwest Atlantic
