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Krill fishing activity in the southwest Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2004

Inigo Everson  and
Catherine Goss
Inigo Everson
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Catherine Goss
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
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Abstract

Commercial krill fishing has been undertaken in the Southern Ocean for twenty years. Recently the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) introduced a reporting scheme to summarize catch data from half degree of latitude by one degree of longitude rectangles. These data demonstrate that commercial fishing in the southwest Atlantic is concentrated in the shelf zone. Certain krill predators are also restricted to this area whilst collecting food for their young during the summer. Krill fishing takes place year round, moving northwards in winter as the ice edge advances.

Keywords

CCAMLRfishingkrillseasonal variationpredatorsSouthern Ocean
Type
Papers—Life Sciences and Oceanography
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 351 - 358
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1991

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