Monitoring deep-sea cold-water coral ecosystems: 16-years of protection but no recovery on the Darwin Mounds (Bathyal NE Atlantic)
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The Darwin Mounds marine protected area has been afforded protection from bottom trawl fishing since August 2003, following the discovery of cold-water coral (CWC) communities in June 1998. Surveys of the area in 2000 provided evidence that deep-water trawling... ...