Seamount megabenthic assemblages fail to recover from trawling impacts.

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On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the sea floor (2015, background): “Williams et al. (2010) found no consistent and clear signal of recovery in the megabenthos on Australian and New Zealand seamounts 5–10 years after fishing had ceased.”
Little Evidence of Benthic Community Resilience to Bottom Trawling on Seamounts After 15 Years (2019, background): “It has been speculated that early recolonisers on the Graveyard Knolls might include stylasterid hydrocorals (Clark and Rowden, 2009) and comatulid crinoids, and similarly observations on some Tasmanian seamounts have suggested that both stylasterids (Williams et al., 2010) and anemones (Clark et al”
Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining on Microbial Ecosystem Services (2018, background): “For example, recovery and recolonization of seamounts by animals was found to not have occurred after 10 years of closing bottom-trawling activities in coastal New Zealand and Australia (Williams et al., 2010).”