At-Sea Distribution and Prey Selection of Antarctic Petrels and Commercial Krill Fisheries

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Descamps, Sébastien, Tarroux, Arnaud, Cherel, Yves, Delord, Karine, Godø, Olaf Rune, Kato, Akiko, Krafft, Bjørn A., Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon, Ropert-Coudert, Yan, Skaret, Georg, Varpe, Øystein
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Southern Ocean; Svarthamaren; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctic Petrel; Antarctica; Euphausia superba; Thalassoica antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988635/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27533327; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156968

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...