Antarctic krill and ecosystem monitoring survey at South Orkney Islands in 2016

• Main Authors: Krafft, Bjørn Arne, Skaret, Georg, Krag, Ludvig Ahm, Rustand, Torborg, Pedersen, Ronald
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Havforskningsinstituttet 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; South Shetland Islands; Bransfield Strait; Norway; South Orkney Islands; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2409242

- Small scaled Russian exploratory fishing for krill in the Southern Ocean began in the late 1960s. During the 1970s the fisheries increased and annual catches of krill have exhibited a number of fluctuations since the beginning of commercial harvesting. Some of these changes have resulted from deve...