HasNotothenia rossiiaround Elephant Island and the lower South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1) recovered from exploitation some 30 years ago?

• Main Authors: Kock, Karl-Hermann, Jones, Christopher D.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Text; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Kerguelen; South Shetland Islands; Elephant Island; Antarc*; Notothenia rossii
• Online Access: https://www.openagrar.de/receive/timport_mods_00004593; https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/timport_derivate_00004593/dn051167.pdf

The marbled notothenia (Notothenia rossii) was the first species targeted by commercial fishing in the Southern Ocean. The species has been heavily fished around South Georgia and Iles Kerguelen in the first half of the 1970’s and at Elephant Island in 1979/80. The closure of the fishery for this sp...