Sentences with word «toothfish»

Colossal squid have occasionally been observed attacking and feeding on Antarctic toothfish as they were being hauled in by fishers.

We will look to investigate the implications of body condition to the spawning success of Patagonian toothfish at South Georgia.

This PhD project aims to generate knowledge essential to understanding variability in the recruitment of toothfish at South Georgia.

Posing as consumers, they bought single fillets of MSC - certified toothfish from supermarkets in 10 states across the United States.

In 2008, MSC commissioned DNA testing of three certified fisheries: Alaskan salmon, Alaskan pollock, and toothfish from South Georgia.

In Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshore.

For toothfish, «it's the most rigorous chain we know of,» says Amy Jackson, MSC's standards director.

They examined more than 8000 toothfish caught by fishing vessels between 2011 and 2014.

The team found that 71 toothfish showed clear signs of colossal squid attack — scratches made by the squid's suckers and hooks, and deeper wounds gouged by its beak.

One fish, plunderfish: Fishermen on the hunt for Antarctic toothfish hooked the foot - long hopbeard plunderfish, or Pogonophryne neyelovi, in deep waters.

The lines sink into deeper water where tuna, hake and the much sought after Patagonian toothfish swim.

The lake registered at just 31 degrees Fahrenheit, slightly warmer than the coastal seas near McMurdo Station, which teem with sea stars, 100 - pound toothfish and other living things.

In order to avoid contributing to overfishing, Marko says that he won't eat toothfish until the extent of the mislabeling is better known; to be on the safe side, he buys species that remain relatively plentiful, such as farmed catfish and Alaskan salmon.

When they examined DNA markers of the 33 actual toothfish, five of these fish had markers that differed from those of fish caught near South Georgia Island.

A long - term dataset, combining observations both from the fishery (years 1997 to present) and scientific surveys (mid-1980s to present), is being developed to describe toothfish reproductive dynamics.

They know, for example, that seals hunt toothfish.

There is currently only one small benthic commercial toothfish fishery off Heard Island.

New Zealand wants to protect its fishermen going after Patagonian toothfish, and, as a petition from Avaaz and Leonardo DiCaprio points out, several nations just want to keep overfishing in general.

Because Antarctic toothfish are about half the size of an adult colossal squid, Laptikhovsky says they probably only attack juvenile, old or wounded squid.

All told, 22 % of the samples appeared to be something other than MSC - certified toothfish.

MSC also plans to do more extensive DNA testing of toothfish to better quantify the rate of mislabeling.

«Taking into account the size of adult squid, the toothfish probably is its most common prey species, because no other deep - sea fish of similar size are available around the Antarctic,» says Laptikhovsky.

Now Laptikhovsky and his team have revealed one of the squid's secrets — they seem to have a taste for the Antarctic toothfish, another deep - water giant.

It is thanks to the colossal squid's deep - sea feud that we now know what these creatures taste like — Laptikhovsky once had the chance to sample a tentacle that was stuck to a toothfish after a failed attack.

The team also found the remains of colossal squid arms, tentacles, beaks and bodies inside the stomachs of 57 toothfish.

But the toothfish do seem to get their revenge.

Now Laptikhovsky and his colleagues have shown that, far from this being a rare occurrence, colossal squid regularly attack Antarctic toothfish.

Like the colossal squid, the Antarctic toothfish is a predator that usually lives in eternal darkness, somewhere between 1 and 2 kilometres below the ocean surface.

In February, New Zealand fishermen plying the waters of the Ross Sea near Antarctica hauled up a real live sea monster in the very act of devouring an Antarctic toothfish.

The predictable result is that two deep - sea species have already been depleted: the orange roughy, formerly known as the slimehead, and the Chilean sea bass, aka Patagonian or Antarctic toothfish.

The Commission has proved toothless when it comes to the toothfish.

Since 2003, fish biologist Arthur Devries of the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign has not caught a single adult Antarctic toothfish — a species sometimes sold at grocery stores as Chilean sea bass.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

There is also uncertainty about how to interpret the genetic markers that indicate whether a toothfish was caught around South Georgia Island.

Also known as toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), many of these fish are caught off Patagonia, where the stocks are threatened by overfishing.

In this role she carried out work on the three species which are the focus of South Georgia's commercial fisheries — krill, mackerel icefish and toothfish.

Of these three species, a large part of her work was investigating toothfish and it is the Patagonian toothfish which will be the focus of her PhD research.

The Patagonian toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides, is a deep - water nototheniid fish, endemic to the Southern hemisphere.

These regulations are usually specific to a fishing season, and currently apply to toothfish, icefish and krill fisheries.

On my particular trip, we captured the first known deep water footage of the patagonian toothfish and discovered a previously unknown 6 - armed species of brittlestar (images sent to the National Science Foundation).

Some newly fished populations, such as monkfish, Patagonian toothfish, blue ling, and orange roughy, have already collapsed in some areas.

For Russia the main prey is the Antarctic toothfish.

Ecotype A feeds mainly on minke whales, ecotype B on seals and emperor penguins, while ecotype C eats mainly fish, particularly the Antarctic toothfish.