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    Some peculiarities of the distribution and fishing of Euphausia superba in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (by results of USSR fleet operations in 1970–1990)

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    Document Number:
    WG-EMM-12/35
    Author(s):
    L. Pshenichnov (Ukraine)
    Submitted By:
    Sarah Mackey (CCAMLR Secretariat)
    Abstract

    Annually (from 1973 to 1991) 1-4 fishing vessels carried out research and scouting operations in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (statistical divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2) for the purposes of the searching of fishable aggregations of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Commercial fishing for the Antarctic krill in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean was carried out from 1977 to 1984. The main peculiarity of fishable aggregations in the Cooperation Sea as a rule out of shelf water (over the depths more than 1000 m).