Bathymetric chart of La Fonera (or Palamós) Canyon in the NW Mediterranean Sea.

<p>The main fishing grounds active on the canyon flanks are marked with grey points corresponding to Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) positions from Palamós harbour trawlers for the period 2007–2010 (see Puig et al., 2012 for details). Coring stations visited in this study are labelled based on their location in the northern flank (NF) or southern flank (SF), increasing their numbering with distance from shore. For further clarity, blue dots have been assigned to untrawled (control) and red dots to trawled sampling sites. Site NF-6 could not be sampled due to the extreme coarseness and compaction of surface sediments (see the text for details).