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The Hamilton Bank-Hawke Channel Region: Potential as an offshore marine protected area? A study to examine the physical, biological, economic, and social characteristics of an offshore fishing area.

机译：汉密尔顿银行-霍克海峡地区：有潜力作为海上海洋保护区吗？一项检查近海捕鱼区的物理，生物学，经济和社会特征的研究。

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The Hamilton Bank-Hawke Channel area is one of the most productive offshore areas in the North Atlantic. This region exhibits outstanding oceanographic features, high primary production, and is important to marine mammals and sea birds. In the past, the region was ecologically vital to Atlantic cod, redfish and capelin and has supported very large commercial fisheries. Since the decline of these species, current commercial fisheries in the area are mainly for northern shrimp and snow crab. These fisheries are worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the harvesters, processors and residents of Newfoundland and Labrador. In addition to commercial species, the Hamilton Bank-Hawke Channel area also has a wide diversity of other fish fauna. The area has been described as 'the engine that drives the northern cod' (deYoung and Rose 1993) and hosts the only known current offshore spawning biomass of northern cod on the Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf (Rose 1999). The region, in the past has also been very important for capelin, which disappeared in the early 1990's. Capelin abundances however, have been increasing over the last several years (R. O'Driscoll 1999. Personal Communication. Fisheries Conservation Chair, Memorial University of Newfoundland). The diversity of fauna, high productivity and oceanographic characteristics make the Hamilton Bank-Hawke Channel unrivaled in terms of its overall impacts on the Newfoundland-Labrador marine ecosystem and as a commercial fishing area. For these reasons this offshore area has high potential to be considered as a Marine Protected Area via the legislation of the Oceans Act of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
机译：汉密尔顿银行-霍克海峡地区是北大西洋生产力最高的离岸地区之一。该地区展现出杰出的海洋学特征，较高的初级生产力，对海洋哺乳动物和海鸟至关重要。过去，该地区对大西洋鳕鱼，红鱼和毛鳞鱼具有重要的生态意义，并为大型商业渔业提供了支持。由于这些物种的减少，该地区目前的商业捕鱼主要是北部虾和雪蟹。这些渔业对纽芬兰和拉布拉多的收割者，加工者和居民来说价值数亿美元。除了商业物种外，汉密尔顿银行-霍克海峡地区还拥有其他鱼类动物的多种多样。该地区被描述为“驱动北部鳕鱼的引擎”（deYoung和Rose，1993年），并在纽芬兰-拉布拉多大陆架上承载着目前唯一已知的北部鳕鱼的近海产卵生物（Rose，1999年）。过去，该地区对毛鳞鱼也非常重要，而毛鳞鱼在1990年代初消失了。然而，在过去几年中，毛鳞鱼的数量一直在增加（R. O'Driscoll，1999年。个人交流。纽芬兰纪念大学渔业保护主席）。动物群的多样性，高生产力和海洋学特征使汉密尔顿银行-霍克海峡对纽芬兰-拉布拉多海洋生态系统以及作为商业性捕鱼区的总体影响无与伦比。由于这些原因，根据渔业和海洋部的《海洋法》的立法，该近海地区具有被视为海洋保护区的潜力。

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