| Summary: | International audience Since the article published by Loeb et al. [Loeb, V.J., Kellermann, A., Koubbi, P., North, A.W., White, M., 1993.Antarctic larval fish assemblages: a review. Bull. Mar. Sci. 53(2), 416–449.] about Antarctic ichthyoplankton,many surveys were carried out in different sectors of the Southern Ocean focusing on different aspects of theecology of fish larvae. Some of these researches were conducted in the Subantarctic Kerguelen Islands andothers on the continental shelf off Terre Adélie and Georges V land. Oceanographic and geographic featuresinfluence fish larvae ecology such as island mass effects, gyres, canyons. Antarctic fishes show also temporalsegregation of spawning which induces temporal succession of early stage larvae. This avoids competitionand probably the predation on early stages for species having few recruits. In that case, we have tounderstand how these larvae can deal with the match–mismatch with their preys and how they findsufficient food to survive. But our knowledge on Antarctic fish larvae is still insufficient as we do not knowlarvae for quite a lot of species and because of the difficulty to sample during winter.
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