FIRST EXPERIMENTAL SETTINGS OF DEEPWATER VERTICAL LONGLINES IN THE ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH FISHERY DISSOSTICHUS MAWSONI NORMAN, 1937 (PERCIFORMES, NOTOTHENIIDAE) IN THE AMUNDSEN SEA

For the first time in the history of deepwater longline fishing on Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni (Norman, 1937) the experimental settings of deepwater vertical longlines was made from the Russian longliner Yantar in March, 2008 in the Amundsen Sea (subarea 88.2,D of the Pacific sector). The experiments proved that this species, one of the most valuable large commercial species of the South Ocean resided in bathypelagial as well as near the bottom.