Wintertime overlaps between female Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) and the krill fishery at South Georgia, South Atlantic

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Bamford, Connor C.G., Warwick-Evans, Victoria, Staniland, Iain J., Jackson, Jennifer A., Trathan, Philip N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Antarctic Krill; Arctocephalus gazella; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529821/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529821/1/journal.pone.0248071.pdf; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248071

The diet of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) at South Georgia is dominated by Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). During the breeding season, foraging trips by lactating female fur seals are constrained by their need to return to land to provision their pups. Post-breeding, seals dispers...