The Impact of the Toothfish Longline Fishery on Skate Populations around South Georgia

• Main Author: Endicott, Michael R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Imperial College London 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; Shag Rocks; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25560/6364; http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/6364

Skate have been taken as by-catch in the South Georgia deepwater bottom longline fishery for toothfish since the fishery began in the late 1980s. However, the species impacted, their biology, the nature of the interaction with longlines, the impact of the fishery on them, and the likely methods of r...