. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DISTRIBUTION AND GENERAL NOTES ON THE SPECIES 34i keeps close in to the land. In the Patagonian region we captured specimens of this very small species at one trawling station only: WS89, in shallow water, where three were taken in one of the ' accessory nets'. Other specimens were obtained for Norman's 1937 report as follows: Port Stanley 24 (under stones, A. G. B. coll.) New Island (West Falkland) 3 (J. E. H. coll.) WS749 3 (in NR) WS832 I (in NR) None of these exceeded a length of 10 cm. If r
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DISTRIBUTION AND GENERAL NOTES ON THE SPECIES 34i keeps close in to the land. In the Patagonian region we captured specimens of this very small species at one trawling station only: WS89, in shallow water, where three were taken in one of the ' accessory nets'. Other specimens were obtained for Norman's 1937 report as follows: Port Stanley 24 (under stones, A. G. B. coll.) New Island (West Falkland) 3 (J. E. H. coll.) WS749 3 (in NR) WS832 I (in NR) None of these exceeded a length of 10 cm. If readily available between tidemarks at the Falkland Islands, Harpagifer might be useful as bait. CHAENICHTHYIDAE Champsocephalus esox (Gunther). This species occurred with some frequency in trawl catches on the rough ground near the Falkland Islands in the southern region. A single large specimen was taken farther north, at St. WS97 in 49° S: WS71 30 WS73 6 WS75 29 WS76 I IVS81 I WS83 41 WS84 2 WSgs I WSgj 2 WS97 I WS756B 2 WS802B I WS823 5 WS834 WS837 51 724 Port Stanley 22 (in OTL) 2 (in seine) 3 (A. G. B. coll.). Most were taken in autumn, and none during the winter survey when a large proportion of the stations were worked in deep water beyond the shelf edge. The species is, indeed, very much an inhabitant of the plain of the shelf, judging by the depth distribution shown in Fig. 42. From this it can be seen that while a few have been taken in shallow littoral waters there was only a single specimen from beyond the shelf edge. From Bennett's notes, quoted by Norman (1937, p- 96), it would seem that if there is any inshore migration of Champsocephalus, it will take place in late summer or autumn, for his records of the infrequent capture of the species in littoral waters at the Falkland Islands all date from that season. The length frequencies of our autumn-caught speci- mens (Fig. 41) show two very strong modes at 15 and at 28 cm. If these indicate year classes i
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