Country / Area

Year of designation

Cold-water coral protection (Restrictions on bottom contact fishing gear / human activity)

Australia

1999

Tasmanian Seamount Reserve. Seamounts (Commonwealth of Australia, 2002).

Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands

2004

Deep-water coral reefs (European Council, 2004).

Canada

2002

Northeast Channel Conservation Area. Deep-water coral (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 2002).

2004

Stone Fence Fisheries Closure. Cold-water coral reefs (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 2004).

2004

The Gully Marine Protected Area. Protection for all species including corals (Canada's Oceans Act 2004).

Europe

2006

Capo Santa Maria di Leuca. Lophelia reefs (FAO GFCM 2006).

New Zealand

2001

Seamounts management strategy, seamount fauna including corals (Brodie and Clark, 2004)

Norway

1999

Sula Reef. Cold-water coral reefs (Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, 2006).

2000

Iverryggen. Cold-water coral reefs (Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, 2006).

2003

Røst Reef. Cold-water coral reefs (Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, 2006).

2003

Tisler Reef. Cold-water coral reefs (Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, 2006).

2003

Fiellknausene. Cold-water coral reefs (Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, 2006).

USA

1984

Oculina protected area. Oculina reefs, Florida. (South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 1998).

2005

Aleutian Islands. Deep-sea corals. (Department of Commerce, 2006).

UK

2004

Darwin Mounds, coral mounds (European Council, 2004).