Post-trawl seascapes in Huon Marine Park
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Description
An orange roughy swims across a region where bottom trawling has removed the benthos, leaving behind a flat 2D surface of coral rubble (1061 metres depth). Species composition differs and faunal density is higher in areas where 3D habitats are formed by structural corals.
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