MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Offshore Seafloor > 322 Soutern Goto Islands
Area (km2) | 7411 |
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Maximum water depth (m) | 807 |
Selected due to high levels for criteria 4 and 8, and selected by the MARXAN software.
There are coral fishing grounds in the south of the Gotoh Islands, including Tamanoura (Iwasaki, 2008). Known as the Hizen fishing grounds, these waters are home to distribution of precious coral in the deep waters around Hizentori Island in the Danjo Islands (Iwasaki, 2008).
These waters also include a number of submarine canyons.
Canyon
Criteria 1 |
<Pisces> |
Heteroplopomus barbatus |
<Octocorallia> |
Acanthogorgia paradoxa |
Bellonella flava |
<Other invertebrate> |
Pycnogonum tenue |
Criteria 4 |
<Octocorallia> |
Acanthogorgia paradoxa |
Bellonella flava |
Clavularia japonica |
Dendronephthya splendens |
Ellisella rubra |
Melithaea dichotoma |
Parisis fruticosa |
Plumarella carinata |
Siphonogorgia splendens |
Thouarella hilgendorfi |
Versluysia ramosa |
Other Precious corals |
* This is the species list of which meet the criteria. In that matter, this list does not include all species that inhabit the individual area.