Editing Seamount (section)

===Fishing===
The effect that seamounts have on fish populations has not gone unnoticed by the [[Commercial fishing|commercial fishing industry]]. Seamounts were first extensively fished in the second half of the 20th century, due to poor management practices and increased fishing pressure seriously depleting stock numbers on the typical fishing ground, the [[continental shelf]]. Seamounts have been the site of targeted fishing since that time.<ref name=ices>{{cite web|title=Seamounts – hotspots of marine life|url=http://www.ices.dk/marineworld/seamounts.asp|publisher=[[International Council for the Exploration of the Sea]]|access-date=24 July 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413164705/http://www.ices.dk/marineworld/seamounts.asp|archive-date=13 April 2010}}</ref>

Nearly 80 species of fish and shellfish are commercially harvested from seamounts, including [[spiny lobster]] (Palinuridae), [[mackerel]] (Scombridae and others), [[Paralithodes camtschaticus|red king crab]] (''Paralithodes camtschaticus''), [[Lutjanus campechanus|red snapper]] (''Lutjanus campechanus''), [[tuna]] (Scombridae), [[Orange roughy]] (''Hoplostethus atlanticus''), and [[perch]] (Percidae).<ref name=EoE-seamount/>