The proposal of Availability Index to summarise the availability of harvested resources

The solution of problems of conservation the Antarctic marina living resources and, at the same time, maintenance of their rational use, requires possession of up-to-date information that summarized availability of each harvested species of resources for human use. In connection with this it is proposed a specific indicator – "Availability Index (AI)", which accumulates the all existing information on availability of the specific marina living resources for fishery. The availability index can be used as universal criterium which monitors the protection potential of the conservation measures together with natural conditions, as well as conditions for fishery.