The Corner Rise Seamounts are a chain of extinct

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es in the northern

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east of the

New England Seamounts The New England Seamounts is a chain of over twenty underwater extinct volcanic mountains known as seamounts. This chain is located off the coast of Massachusetts in the Atlantic Ocean and extends over 1,000 km from the edge of Georges Bank ...

. Both it and the New England Seamounts were formed when the

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moved over the Great Meteor hotspot 75 million years ago. It is the shallowest seamount in New England, with some of its nineteen highest peaks only 800–900 m deep. Like most

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s, they attract fish. Over 175 species have been found there, including

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, black cardinal fish,

black scabbardfish The black scabbardfish (''Aphanopus carbo'') is a bathypelagic cutlassfish of the family Trichiuridae found in the Atlantic Ocean between latitudes 69°N and 27°N at depths between . Its length is up to , but it reaches maturity around . D ...

, and

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. Trawl fishing during the 1970s and 1980s resulted in approximately 20,000 tons of fish being harvested. As a result, the seamounts were closed to demersal fishing (collecting fish near the bottom of the ocean, as opposed to pelagic fishing, collecting fish near the surface) beginning 1 January 1997. The original ban was supposed to be lifted 31 December 2010, but was extended until 31 December 2020. Almost a decade into the ban, a 2005

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survey found that two of the peaks, Kükenthal and Yakutat, had been stripped bare of both corals and bottom-dwelling animals. However the survey, which covered both the Corner Rise and New England Seamounts, found 270 species of

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and

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, including 70 species unique to the Corner Rise Seamounts.

Seamounts

Seamounts within the Corner Rise Seamount chain include: *

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Caloosahatchee Seamount The Caloosahatchee Seamount is a seamount in the northern Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Corner Rise Seamounts, which was active about 75 million years ago. It was formed when the North American Plate moved over the New England hotspot The ...

with **

Milne-Edwards Peak Milne-Edwards is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885), French zoologist * Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), French ornithologist and carcinologist, a son of Henri Milne-Edwards See also * Miln ...

Verrill Peak Verrill is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926), American zoologist, museum curator, and professor *Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871–1954), American archaeologist, explorer, inventor, illus ...

Castle Rock Seamount A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

Corner Seamount Corner may refer to: People *Corner (surname) *House of Cornaro, a noble Venetian family (''Corner'' in Venetian dialect) Places *Corner, Alabama, a community in the United States *Corner Inlet, Victoria, Australia *Corner River, a tributary of ...

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Goode Peak Goode ( or , depending on family) is a surname. Notable people Notable people with the surname include: * Alex Goode (Born 1988), British rugby union player * Alexander D. Goode (1911-1943), US Army chaplain * Andy Goode (born 1980), British ru ...

** Kukenthal Peak *

Justus Seamount Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arrivin ...

MacGregor Seamount MacGregor or Macgregor may refer to: People * MacGregor (surname) * MacGregor (filmmaker), a Spanish commercial cinematographer and film director * Clan Gregor, a Scottish clan * Macgregor baronets, related individuals including a British Army Br ...

Rockaway Seamount Rockaway may refer to: Places in the United States *Rockaway Beach (disambiguation) New Jersey *Rockaway, New Jersey, a borough in Morris County *Rockaway Township, New Jersey, a township in Morris County *Rockaway Creek (New Jersey), a tributary ...

Yakutat Seamount Yakutat may refer to: Geography *Yakutat, Alaska, a unified city-borough in Alaska *Yakutat Bay, a bay on the coast of Alaska *Yakutat Airport, a state-owned public-use airport in Alaska in the United States *Yakutat Army Airfield, a former United ...

References

External links

* * {{cite web, title=Image of New England and Corner Rise Seamounts, url=http://www.gulfofmaine-census.org/wp-content/images/ne_seamount.jpg, publisher=Gulf of Maine Census, accessdate=19 August 2015 Seamounts of the Atlantic Ocean Hotspot volcanoes Extinct volcanoes Seamount chains