On a trawled north Pacific seamount, reductions of benthic megafauna abundance, diversity, and ecosystem function are correlated with increased evidence of fishing.

High-seas seamounts in the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain are exposed to bottom-contact fisheries, i.e., historical and contemporary trawl, coral tangle net, longline, and gillnet fisheries, that disturb vulnerable marine ecosystem megafauna, such a…

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