[HTML][HTML] Mesopelagics–New gold rush or castle in the sky?

K Fjeld, R Tiller, E Grimaldo, L Grimsmo, IB Standal - Marine Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing world population requires large, renewable sources of nutritional food. Fish
and other marine resources are nutrient dense and rich in healthy marine omega-3 lipids …

Quantifying carbon fluxes from primary production to mesopelagic fish using a simple food web model

TR Anderson, AP Martin, RS Lampitt… - ICES Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
An ecosystem-based flow analysis model was used to study carbon transfer from primary
production (PP) to mesopelagic fish via three groups of copepods: detritivores that access …

Mesopelagic sound scattering layers of the High Arctic: Seasonal variations in biomass, species assemblage, and trophic relationships

M Geoffroy, M Daase, M Cusa, G Darnis… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Mesopelagic sound scattering layers (SSL) are ubiquitous in all oceans. Pelagic organisms
within the SSL play important roles as prey for higher trophic levels and in climate regulation …

Lipids and fatty acids in some mesopelagic fish species: General characteristics and peculiarities of adaptive response to deep-water habitat

VP Voronin, DV Artemenkov, AM Orlov… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The lipid and fatty acid composition of muscles of mesopelagic fish species Lampanyctus
macdonaldi, Bathylagus euryops, Serrivomer beanii, Scopelogadus beanii in the Irminger …

High latitude epipelagic and mesopelagic scattering layers—A reference for future Arctic ecosystem change

T Knutsen, PH Wiebe, H Gjøsæter… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Scattering structures, including deep (> 200 m) scattering layers are common in most
oceans, but have not previously been properly documented in the Arctic Ocean. In this work …

The deep dive of organohalogen compounds: Bioaccumulation in the top predators of mesopelagic trophic webs, pygmy and dwarf sperm whales, from the …

N de Oliveira-Ferreira, EB Santos-Neto, BMR Manhães… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Kogia sima and Kogia breviceps are apex predators of mesopelagic trophic webs being far
from most anthropogenic threats. However, chemical pollutants and naturally synthesized …

[HTML][HTML] A deep scattering layer under the North Pole pack ice

P Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, H Gjøsæter… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 3.3 million km 2 marine ecosystem around the North Pole, defined as the
Central Arctic Ocean (CAO), is a blind spot on the map of the world's fish stocks. The CAO …

No future for Euro-Arctic ocean fishes?

JS Christiansen - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2017 - int-res.com
In this essay, I outline how vanishing sea ice may unveil costs and benefits for fishes native
to the Euro-Arctic seas. Most arctic fishes are not directly associated with the sea ice, but …

Evidence of diel vertical migration of mesopelagic sound-scattering organisms in the Arctic

H Gjøsæter, PH Wiebe, T Knutsen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
While sound scattering layers (SSLs) have been described previously from ice-covered
waters in the Arctic, the existence of a viable mesopelagic community that also includes …

Light comfort zone in a mesopelagic fish emerges from adaptive behaviour along a latitudinal gradient

TJ Langbehn, DL Aksnes, S Kaartvedt… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Throughout the oceans, small fish and other micronekton migrate between daytime depths
of several hundred meters and near-surface waters at night. These diel vertical migrations of …