The role of fish as predators of krill (Euphausia superba) and other pelagic resources in the Southern Ocean
Journal: NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council)
Year: 2012

Krill forms an important part of the diet of many Antarctic fish species. An understanding of the role of fish as krill predators in the Southern Ocean is critical to understanding how changes in fish abundance, such as through fishing or environmental change, are likely to impact on the food webs in the region. First attempts to estimate the krill and pelagic food consumption by Antarctic demersal fish in the low Antarctic were made in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Those estimates were constraine