Title/Name of the area: Madeira – Tore

On the basis of morphology, the main fault zone seems to cut the northern part of the EBSA near Josephine Seamount and continues along the Gorringe Bank to the Iberian continental rise. [...] Ampere seamount is part of the Horseshoe Seamounts Chain and it is located between the island of Madeira and the Portuguese southern coast, to the west of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Morocco. [...] Feature description of the proposed area The knowledge of the Madeira-Tore EBSA area is based on the analysis of 220 scientific articles containing relevant information about the proposed area. [...] x Madeira-Tore 9 importance for life-history stages of species The area of Madeira-Tore contains a high number of species associated to the structures, particularly to the seamounts (see Feature description of the proposed area). [...] Concerns have developed about the vulnerability of the EBSA seamount communities to human impacts, especially with the development of large- scale bottom trawl fisheries in the deep sea in recent decades and the future prospect of seabed mining.