Impact of the finfish fishery in the South Shetland Islands/Antarctic Peninsula region

• Main Author: Barrera Oro, Esteban
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Agenda Antártica
• Subjects: Fishery depletion; Notothenioidei; Antarctic ecosystem; Inshore fish; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; South Shetland Islands; South Georgia; South Orkney Islands; Shag Rocks; Nelson Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Toothfish; baleen whales; Notothenia rossii; Patagonian Toothfish
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/62763

Besides krill, finfish is at present the only living resource commercially exploited in the Southern Ocean. Following seals and baleen whales prior to the 1970s, demersal fish stocks were depleted off the South Shetland Islands byintensive industrial fishing during the late 1970s to early 1980s, bei...