Hawkins Bank is a large submerged bank off the

Mascarene Plateau The Mascarene Plateau is a submarine plateau in the Indian Ocean, north and east of Madagascar. The plateau extends approximately , from Seychelles in the north to Réunion in the south. The plateau covers an area of over of shallow water, wi ...

. It is considered a dependency of

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...

(in terms of fishing banks, much like the Saya de Malha Bank, Nazareth Bank, and the

Soudan Banks Soudan may refer to: * The French name (and former English name) for the country of Sudan * The French name for French Sudan (present-day Mali) * Archaic spelling for the region of Sudan * Soudan, Minnesota, an unincorporated town near Tower ...

). The bank is abundant with fish and Mauritian vessels often fish in the waters in and around the bank.

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