Data from: At-sea distribution and prey selection of Antarctic petrels and commercial krill fisheries ...

• Main Authors: Descamps, Sébastien, Tarroux, Arnaud, Cherel, Yves, Delord, Karine, Godø, Olaf R., Kato, Akiko, Krafft, Bjørn A., Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon, Ropert-Coudert, Yan, Skaret, Georg, Varpe, Øystein
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Movebank Data Repository 2016
• Subjects: Thalassoica antarctica; animal movement; animal foraging; animal tracking; Antarctica; Antarctic petrel; fisheries; light-level loggers; predators; Procellariformes; seabirds; Southern Ocean; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Svarthamaren; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctic Petrel; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.q4gn4q56; https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.566

Commercial fisheries may impact marine ecosystems and affect populations of predators like seabirds. In the Southern Ocean, there is an extensive fishery for Antarctic krill Euphausia superba that is projected to increase further. Comparing distribution and prey selection of fishing operations versu...