 Following the study, the proposed marine reserve, the "Tasmanian Seamount Community" or "Tasmanian Seamounts Marine Reserve" was created as part of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.The reserve banned fishing, especially trawling, within an area of .It contained 70 seamounts, a fifth of the known Tasmanian seamounts, all of which were low-trawl areas and thus still in relatively unaffected form.