PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE FIRST SURVEY SEASON OF ANTARCTIC KRILL AND APEX PREDATORS WITH THE COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL SAGA SEA IN THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS AREA 2011

During the CCAMLR WG-EMM in July 2010, Aker Biomarine ASA offered to carry out a 5 day survey each year for the next five years in the CCAMLR statistical Subarea 48.2 using the Norwegian krill fishing vessel „Saga Sea‟. This report describes methodology, presents raw data and preliminary results from the first of these surveys, carried out in February 2011 near the South Orkney Islands