The resolution specifically mentions protecting seamounts, hypothermal vents and cold water corals. |
The rich source of food around seamounts also encourages the growth of suspension feeders on the seafloor, such as corals. |
The fish dwells deep in the ocean and travels long distances to spawn above seamounts in the Southern Hemisphere. |
You have seamounts with incredible biodiversity being destroyed around the world. |
More recently, large concentrations of orange roughy were uncovered on seamounts off Australia and New Zealand, and just as immediately decimated. |
These deep water whales are usually found in the vicinity of seamounts and continental slopes in temperate and subarctic waters. |