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Fisheries are human activities that alter resource availability for species in marine ecosystems. While fisheries remove fish biomass, they may also provide new feeding opportunities to various marine predators. These species, depredating on catches directly on the fishing gear…
The Kerguelen Plateau, located in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean, is the second largest submarine plateau in the world. Despite the remoteness of the islands that emerge from the Plateau…
Avian and mammalian predators play a key role in the Kerguelen Plateau ecosystem, both with respect to structuring the marine community and its response to anthropogenic influences, such as climate change and commercial fisheries.
Two cruises in the eastern sector of the Southern Ocean (POKER 2006 off the Kerguelen Islands and CEAMARC 2008 off Terre Adélie and George V Land), with extensive surveys, provided an interesting and abundant liparid fish collection (two genera, 13 species, 90 specimens).