Slow recovery of previously depleted demersal fish at the South Shetland Islands, 1983-2010

• Published in: Fisheries Research
• Main Authors: Marschoff, Enrique Ricardo, Barrera Oro, Esteban, Alescio, Nadia Soledad, Ainley, David G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science
• Subjects: DEPENSATION; FISH STOCK RECOVERY; FISHERY DEPLETION; NOTOTHENIIDAE; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Southern Ocean; South Shetland Islands; Potter Cove; Argentino; Argentina; Ricardo; baleen whales; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino; Notothenia rossii
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/196999

Following seals and baleen whales prior to the 1970s, demersal fish stocks were depleted off the South Shetland Islands by intensive industrial fishing during the late 1970s to early 1980s. Little has been reported since about how these stocks have fared, after international agreement closed this fi...