The Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Islands (49°30‘S

• Main Authors: M. L. D. Palomares, D. Pauly
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.228.4547; http://www.seaaroundus.org/researcher/dpauly/PDF/2011/Books_Reports_OrChaptersTherein/ABriefHistoryofFishinginKerguelenIslands.pdf

Catch statistics from around the (uninhabited) Kerguelen Islands, which are part of the French Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Territories, and where distant-water fisheries began in 1970, were obtained from the CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) Statistical Bulletin (Area 58.5.1) and complemented by statistics reported through the French KERPECHE program. Catches originally expressed by fishing seasons were re-expressed as calendar years, which results in a slight between-season smoothing. These catches show a general decline over a 30 year-period and an expansion of the longline fishery to deeper waters in the last 10 years.