The bottom longline fishery and its use as a source of benthic biodiversity information around South Georgia

• Main Author: Benedet, Ramon Augusto
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Open University 2017
• Subjects: Fishing Ground; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; Southern Ocean; Patagonian Toothfish
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0000be24; http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/48676

South Georgia is a large, old, and isolated oceanic archipelago in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. It is surrounded by a wide continental shelf which is highly productive, rich in biodiversity and one of the world’s largest Marine Protected Areas. Most of its ~1450 species live on the sea...