At-sea distribution and prey selection of Antarctic petrels and commercial krill fisheries

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Descamps, Sébastien, Tarroux, Arnaud, Cherel, Yves, Delord, Karine, Godø, Olaf Rune, Kato, Akiko, Krafft, Bjørn A., Lorentsen, Svein-Hakon, Ropert‐Coudert, Yan, Skaret, Georg, Varpe, Øystein
• Other Authors: Norvegian Polar Research Institute (NPRI), Norwegian Polar Institute, Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institute of Marine Research Bergen (IMR), University of Bergen (UiB), Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Akvaplan-Niva Tromsø, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Southern Ocean; Svarthamaren; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctic Petrel; Antarctica; Thalassoica antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01386700; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156968

International audience Commercial fisheries may impact marine ecosystems and affect populations of predatorslike seabirds. In the Southern Ocean, there is an extensive fishery for Antarctic krill Euphausiasuperba that is projected to increase further. Comparing distribution and prey selectionof fish...