South Shetland krill monitoring program
The Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of China and the Liaoning Pelagic Fisheries Co. have been conducting a krill survey around the South Shetland Islands since 2013. These surveys are a continuation of the former US-AMLR summer surveys.
Fv Fu Rong Hai have supported this research by the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of China.
The main objective is to provide a baseline for krill abundance and density distribution at the South Shetland and Antarctic Peninsula main fishing grounds for understanding its population dynamics.
Results to date indicate a similar temporal and magnitude pattern in krill biomass fluctuations than previous findings (US-AMLR summer program, 1996—2011).
