The Pelagic Fish Community of the Polar Frontal Zone off the Kerguelen Islands
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abundant speCies. G. braueri then K. anderssoni took the dominant
position in the deeper horizons (Table 2).
Table 2. Day and night percentage occurrences (%) and mean relative abundance (A: in
number of specimens per fishing hour) of the species within each depth horizon from the
trawls conducted in the foraging range of the king penguins breeding at the Ratmanoff
colony (Kerguelen Islands) in March 1995
Day
Night
Depth (m) 50
150 250 300
50
150
250
300
Total No. 600
266 201 423
6067 1891
1923 2861
Myctophidae
E. antarctica
%
1.9
39.4
17.9
11.7
8.4
A
3.1
743.0
84.5
75.0
68.6
E. carlsbergi
%
0.7
0.7
4.8
A
11.4
4.7
39.4
E. subaspera
%
1.3
1.2
0.4
0.5
A
25.2
5.5
2.7
4.0
G. bolini
%
0.0
1.6
0.7
l.l
A
0.3
7.8
4.3
8.9
G. braueri
%
18.0
27.6
13.0
Il.l
A
338.5 130.3
83.3
90.9
G. nicholsi
%
2.4
2.0
1.0
0.3
0.5
A
13.7
37.3
4.8
1.7
3.7
G·fraseri
%
7.2
7.5
4.2
4.5
A
135.2
35.3
27.3
36.9
G. piabilis
%
0.5
1.2
0.3
0.4
A
9.9
5.5
1.7
3.1
K. anderssoni
%
1.8
44 59.2
9.0
2.0
9.5
31.1
23.1
A
3.1 39.7 41.0 14.5
37.9
44.8 199.3 188.9
P. andriashevi %
47.3
0.0
0.4
4.1
1.0
A
76.4
0.3
1.8
26.0
8.0
P. bolini
%
27.2
14.2
8.8
14.7
16.3
A
43.9
267.4
41.8
94.0 132.9
P. tenisoni
%
14.4
13.3
10.0
7.5
A
272.3
63.3
64.0
61.4
Others
%
1.9
0.1
0.1
0.2
A
0.4
1.9
0.5
1.4
NonMyctophidae