News24 | US fisheries council protects mid-Atlantic deep ocean coral News24 Washington – More than 90 650 square kilometre of ocean habitat along the US Atlantic coast gained protection on Wednesday from trawl and dredge fishing that could harm deep-sea ocean corals, according to an environmental group supporting the … Vote Aids Deep Sea Corals in Much of Mid-Atlantic Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Votes To Put Ban on Bottom-Tending … US environmentalists welcome vote to protect Atlantic coral reefs |