Abstract:
Mesopelagic fish were sampled in the Scotia Sea using a 25 m2 opening and closing rectangular midwater trawl during five research cruises on RRS John Biscoe and RRS James Clark Ross. Nets sampled discrete layers, from the surface to 1000 m during austral spring, summer and autumn. The data include 17726 individual fish records from 66 taxa, the most abundant of which were myctophids of the genera Electrona, Gymnoscopelus, Krefftichthys and Protomyctophum and bathylagids (Bathylagus sp.). Length (standard length, total length or pre-anal fin length) was measured for the majority of specimens (16837), with sex and weight data also collected for many.
The work was conducted as part of the BAS Ecosystems Programmes funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.
Keywords:
Bathylagus, Myctophidae, Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, distribution
| Creation Date: | 2021-03-08 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Name | UK PDC |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Martin A Collins |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Uwe Piatkowski |
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| Organisation | GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research |
| Name | Prof Paul Rodhouse |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Martin G White |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Mr Anthony W North |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Gabriele Stowasser |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Nadine Johnston |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Claire M Waluda |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Jose C Xavier |
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| Organisation | Universidade de Coimbra |
| Name | Prof Geraint Tarling |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Sophie Fielding |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Elizabeth M White |
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| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Name | Dr Yves Cherel |
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| Organisation | CNRS-Universit? de La Rochelle |
| Name | Dr Rachael Shreeve |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Anton Van de Putte |
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| Organisation | Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences |
| Name | Dr Peter Enderlein |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Douglas Bone |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Ryan A Saunders |
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| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |