Brief report on scientific observation on the fishery vessel Mellas (FAO Statistical Area 41, January to July 2006)

Materials on results of scientific observation in fishery cruise on the longliner “Mellas”, operating under the Ukrainian flag in FAO statistical area 41 in the southwest Atlantic outside exclusive (sea) economic zones of the foreign states at Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) fisheries are submitted. The data on volume of the biological material collected in the cruise, the data on size-mass, sexual structure, parasitology of Patagonian toothfish, taxonomic structure of catches are given.