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South Orkney Island 2016 Antarctic krill and ecosystem monitoring

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Document Number:
WG-EMM-16/P03
Author(s):
B.A. Krafft, G. Skaret, L.A. Krag, T. Rustand and R. Pedersen
Submitted By:
Dr Bjørn Krafft (Norway)
Approved By:
Dr Olav Rune Godø (Norway)
Publication:
Institute of Marine Research Report, 20 (2016): www.imr.no/filarkiv/2016/05/antarctic_krill_survey_at_south_orkney_islands_2016.pdf/nb-no
Abstract

This report presents the outcome from the sixth of the annual survey seasons (2016) off the South Orkney Islands including the preliminary results from continuously recorded acoustic data, krill demography and other macro zooplankton from trawl station work, krill predator sightings data as well as krill-experimental work carried out on onboard.