Acoustic scattering layers of A4eganyctiphanes norvegica in the Oslofjord, Norway, typically stayed below -70 m during the day They remained below prevailing fish schools, though varying numbers of deep-living fish occurred among the krill.The estimated light intensity at the top of the krdl layer varied between 4.6 x 10-"nd 2.3 x 10-4 pm01 m-' S-' M. norvegjca followed isolumes during ascent a t dusk, but upward migration was mainly arrested at -10-30 m and the krill were scattered throughout the water column at night.The minimum depth was not related to seasonal light levels, chlorophyll concentration or the pycnocline.Fish schools dispersed at sunset, and fish invaded the krill layer at night.Nocturnal avoidance of the surface water may thus have been an antipredator response Herbivorous feeding was strongly related to abundance of algae (chl a levels).Feeding on phytoplankton increased at night, but daytime stomach pigment content was high during spring, when sediment~ng phytoplankton appeared to represent a deep food source.Feeding on copepods was evident both day and night, with no cons~stent relatlon between copepod remains in the stomachs and integrated abundance of copepods in the water column.M norvegica carried out diel vertical migrations irrespective of fluctuations in distribution and abundance of food resources.
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Onsrud et al. (1998) studied this question.