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Cold-Water Coral Reefs Cold-water coral reefs Out of sight – no longer out of mind André Freiwald, Jan Helge Fosså, Anthony Grehan, Tony Koslow and J. Murray Roberts Cold-water coral reefs Out of sight – no longer out of mind André Freiwald, Jan Helge Fosså, Anthony Grehan, Tony Koslow and J. Murray Roberts UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Supporting organizations 219 Huntingdon Road Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Cambridge CB3 0DL Government United Kingdom National Parks and Wildlife Service Tel: +44 (0) 1223 277314 7 Ely Place Fax: +44 (0) 1223 277136 Dublin 2 Email: [email protected] Ireland Website: www.unep-wcmc.org http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIhome.nsf Director: Mark Collins Norwegian Ministry of the Environment Department for Nature Management THE UNEP WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE is the PO Box 8013 biodiversity assessment and policy implementation arm of the Dep. N-0030 Oslo United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the world’s Norway foremost intergovernmental environmental organization. UNEP- http://www.miljo.no WCMC aims to help decision makers recognize the value of biodiversity to people everywhere, and to apply this knowledge to Defra all that they do. The Centre’s challenge is to transform complex Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs data into policy-relevant information, to build tools and systems Nobel House for analysis and integration, and to support the needs of nations 17 Smith Square and the international community as they engage in joint London SW1P 3JR programmes of action. United Kingdom http://www.defra.gov.uk UNEP-WCMC provides objective, scientifically rigorous products and services that include ecosystem assessments, support for Joint Nature Conservation Committee implementation of environmental agreements, regional and Monkstone House global biodiversity information, research on environmental City Road threats and impacts, and development of future scenarios for the Peterborough PE1 1JY living world. United Kingdom http://www.jncc.gov.uk © UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs/Irish Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local UNEP Coral Reef Unit (CRU) Government/UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee/ c/o UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Norwegian Ministry of the Environment/UNEP/UNEP-WCMC/ 219 Huntingdon Road WWF 2004 Cambridge CB3 0DL United Kingdom Citation: Freiwald, A., Fosså, J.H., Grehan, A., Koslow, T., Roberts, J.M. Tel: (+44) 1223 277314 2004. Cold-water Coral Reefs. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK. Fax: (+44) 1223 277136 http://corals.unep.org http://www.unep-wcmc.org URL: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/resources/publications/ UNEP_WCMC_bio_series/22.htm WWF Coral Reefs Advocacy Initiative A Banson production Global Marine Programme UNEP-WCMC maps created by Corinna Ravilious, UNEP-WCMC WWF International Avenue du Mont-Blanc Printed in the UK by Swaingrove Imaging Gland 1196 Switzerland The contents of this report do not necessarily reflect the views or policies http://www.panda.org/coral of the United Nations Environment Programme, the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, or the supporting organizations. The designations employed and the presentations do not imply the expressions of any opinion whatsoever on the part of these organizations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authority, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Cold-water coral reefs Editors Acknowledgements Stefan Hain and Emily Corcoran This report would not have been possible without the participation UNEP Coral Reef Unit of many colleagues from the Institute of Paleontology, particularly Tim Beck, Jürgen Titschack and Max Wisshak. We are grateful to Editorial Board Mark Tasker (Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)) for Elizabeth Sides, Department of the Environment, Heritage and reviewing the manuscript. Thanks also for additional material and Local Government, Ireland input to Peter Etnoyer (Marine Conservation Biology Institute Mai Britt Knoph, Norwegian Ministry of the Environment (MCBI)), Dorthea Hangaard (Living Oceans Society), Michael Charlotte Johnston, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK Hirshfield (Oceana), Beth Lumsden (National Oceanic and Sian Owen, Global Marine Programme, WWF Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)), Elliot Norse (MCBI), Santi Roberts (Oceana), Caroline Turnbull (JNCC), Derek Fenton (Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Canada), Kristina Authors Gjerde (IUCN–The World Conservation Union) and Martin Willison (Dalhousie University). For providing permission to reproduce or to André Freiwald use images, we are grateful to Allen Andrews (Moss Landing), Institute of Paleontology (IPAL) Amy Baco (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Lydia Beuck University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institute of Paleontology, Erlangen University), Andreas Beyer Loewenichstr. 28 (Alfred Wegner Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 91054 Erlangen Bremerhaven), Allan Blacklock (National Institute of Water and Germany Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand), BP Plc, Sandra [email protected] Dawn Brooke (Oregon Institute of Marine Biology), Stephen Cairns (Smithsonian Institution), the Conservation GIS Support Center Jan Helge Fosså (Anchorage), DNO Heather Ltd, Laure Fournier (IFREMER (French Institute of Marine Research (IMR) Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) Directorate), Donald PO Box 1870 Nordnes Gordon (DFO-Canada), Jean-Pierre Henriet (University of Ghent), N-5817 Bergen the JAGO-Team (Seewiesen, Germany), Cathy Kilroy (NIWA), Norway Tomas Lundälv (Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory), Charles [email protected] Messing (Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University), Conrad Neuman (University of North Carolina), the NOAA Ocean Anthony J. Grehan Explorer staff, Olaf Pfannkuche (Institute for Marine Research- Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences GEOMAR), Rebecca Reuter (National Marine Fisheries Service), National University of Ireland the Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation (Azores), John Reed (Harbor Galway Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI)), Jim Reid (DFO- Ireland Canada), Geoffrey Shester, Joe Shoulak (MCBI), Tom Smoyer [email protected] (HBOI) and Terje Thorsnes (Geological Survey of Norway (NGU)). The support of the International Gannet Association is J. Anthony Koslow appreciated. CSIRO Marine Research Perth, Western Australia This report was supported by the Governments of Ireland, Norway Private Bag 5 and the United Kingdom, as well as the World Wide Fund for Wembley, WA 6913 Nature (WWF) and the United Nations Environment Programme Australia (UNEP). The assistance of representatives of these organizations, [email protected] Elizabeth Sides (Irish Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government), Mai Britt Knoph (Norwegian Ministry of J. Murray Roberts the Environment), Charlotte Johnston (Joint Nature Conservation Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) Committee, UK), Sian Owen, Simon Cripps and Charlotte Breide Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory (WWF), Stefan Hain and Emily Corcoran (UNEP Coral Reef Unit), Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA as well as constructive input from their colleagues, especially the United Kingdom marine and coral reef experts at the UNEP World Conservation [email protected] Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), is also very much appreciated. 3 Cold-water coral reefs Messages ‘The planet's life-support systems are the source of stability for all peoples, all nations. Cold-water coral reefs are emerging as a new piece in this vital web of life which now requires our urgent attention.’ Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, UNEP ‘These reefs are underwater oases, biological treasures and important habitats for fish. It is amazing that such ‘Cold-water coral reefs form a remarkable and truly major new discoveries can still be made. The reefs are valuable ecosystem off our coasts which our nations slow growing and extremely fragile, and must, as a must work together to protect.’ matter of urgency, be protected from further damage.’ Minister Martin Cullen, Department of the Environment, Børge Brende, Minister of the Environment, Norway Heritage and Local Government, Ireland ‘At last, advanced science and world leaders recognize ‘Cold-water coral reefs are vitally important ecosystems, that the oceans' resources are finite and now require with immense biodiversity value; a treasure that must be thoughtful stewardship and intelligent management. We preserved for future generations. The UK has secured a call upon government and industry leaders to take permanent ban on bottom trawling over Lophelia urgent action to conserve the spectacular and unique pertusa cold-water coral reefs in the Darwin Mounds ecosystems of cold-water coral reefs.’ through action at European Community level. However, further international cooperation is needed to conserve Dr Claude Martin, Director General, WWF International vulnerable marine ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction.’ Elliot Morley, Minister for Environment and Agri-Environment, Defra, United Kingdom 4 Cold-water coral reefs Foreword Only in the last 20 years has the sea given up one of its work and that of others we now know that cold-water deepest secrets. Far beneath the sunlit surface corals coral reefs are important and ancient reservoirs of thrive, close relatives of the species found along tropical marine biodiversity and are essential nursery habitats for shores and familiar to scuba divers the world over, but many commercially important fish
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