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

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 8; p. e0156968
• 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: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 17.08.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Agricultural sciences; Animal biology; Animal breeding; Animals; Antarctic krill; Antarctic Regions; Aquatic birds; Biology and Life Sciences; Birds; Birds - physiology; Breeding; Breeding seasons; Commercial fishing; Competition; Competitive Behavior - physiology; Crustaceans; Distribution; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Ecology, environment; Environmental aspects; Euphausia superba; Euphausiacea; Feeding Behavior - physiology; Fisheries; Fishing; Fishing grounds; Fishing zones; Food Chain; Food chains; Foraging behavior; Frequency distribution; Geography; Krill; Life Sciences; Marine; Marine ecosystems; Marine mammals; People and Places; Physical Sciences; Polar environments; Predation (Biology); Predators; Predatory Behavior - physiology; Prey; Prey selection; Research and Analysis Methods; Sciences and technics of fishery; Seabirds; Seasons; Spatial distribution; Symbiosis; Thalassoica antarctica; Trawls; Vertebrate Zoology; France; Orkney Islands; Scotia Sea; Antarctic Peninsula; Norway; Southern Ocean; PSE, Antarctica, Dronning Maud Land; PS, Antarctica; PS, Antarctic Ocean; PSE, Antarctica, Dronning Maud Land, Svarthamaren

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...