Troubled Waters: The Future of Global Fisheries
Figure 3
The Effect of Trawling the Seafloor for Groundfish
(A) The coral community and seabed on an untrawled seamount. (B) The exposed bedrock of a trawled seamount. Both are 1,000–2,000 meters (1094–2188 yards) below the surface. (Photo, with permission, by CSIRO Marine Research.)