Oceana | Protecting the World's Oceans

Many have been slowly, quietly growing there for hundreds of years. They provide Deep sea coral gardens grow in the deepest reaches of the sea.crucial habitat for more than 2,000 species of marine life.

The practice of "bottom trawling" -- where fishing vessels drag huge weighted nets across the sea floor behind them, demolishing everything in their path -- threatens to destroy these precious resources.

You can help protect deep sea corals by telling your Representative that you want him or her to include protection for deep sea corals as provided for in the Bottom Trawl and Deep Sea Coral Habitat Act (HR 3778) in any new ocean legislation!