LIST OF TABLES 



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1. Exploratory fishing by Japanese vessels 3 



2. Exploratory fishing by other nationalities... 3 



3. Krill biomass estimates 26 



4. Estimates of krill annual production 26 



5. Estimates of exploitable standing stocks of 

 Antarctic whales 37 



6. Crude estimates of large whale populations, 

 biomass, and food consumption in the 



Antarctic 38 



7. Stomach contents of baleen whales caught by 

 Japanese pelagic catch from 1961 to 1965 in 



the Antarctic 40 



8. Estimates of seal standing stock in the 



Southern Ocean 52 



9. Stomach contents and food items of seals 

 recorded in the southwestern Atlantic 



sector of the Southern Ocean pack ice 55 



10. The food consumption of Antarctic seals 56 



11. Stomach contents and food items of Weddell 

 and crabeater seals as recorded by earlier 

 investigators 57 



12. Available Spheniscidae standing stock and 



biomass estimates 6 5 



13. Prey types and food consumption estimates 



in Spheniscidae 67 



14. Avian standing stock, biomass, and food 

 consumption summary 75 



15. Standing stock, biomass, food preferences 



and food consumption of other seabirds 76 



16. Birds observed feeding in flocks on krill.... 80 



