By Maya L. Kapoor In 2023, biologists Lauren Stefaniak and Marie Nydam had time to kill before their university workshop on ...

Additionally, 95% of the MPA will be closed to longline fishing, with prohibitions applying within the general benthic ... Zones not only protects the most biodiverse and potentially vulnerable ...

“The [marine benthic zone] includes all the activity going on at the bottom of the ocean, in the rocky intertidal zones and in the sub-tidal zones,” Carlon noted. Commercially important organisms such ...

The videos helped the team identify some previously unmapped sea lion habitats in the benthic zone–or the lowest ... 7 in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. [Related: How animals see ...

Creating the world’s largest open-source catalog representing only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in marine ... zone, the open, free water away from the shore, 4.1% were from the benthic zone ...

GSGSSI will extend the current Marine Protected Area legislation across its entire 1.24m km2 Maritime Zone. No-take zones (NTZ), which will be closed to all commercial fishing activity ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --Far beneath the ocean waves lies the benthic zone - the cold dark region at the bottom of the sea that is home to some of the most important marine organisms, called meiofauna.

The black shale contained fine laminations and weak bioturbation and lacked primary burrows (burrows produced during the deposition of the black shale), indicating anoxic benthic marine conditions.