Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the French Ministry in charge of Environment
(Ministère de la Transition Ecologique / Direction de l’Eau et de la
Biodiversité). This study was funded by the European project H2020
SUMMER “Sustainable Management of Mesopelagic Resources” (grant
agreement ID: 817806). The authors are grateful to the crew of the R/V
Thalassa (https://doi. Org/10.18142/8) and to all scientists and cruise
leaders who allowed the data collection during the EVHOE scientific
surveys. We finally thank Benoît Lebreton and Gaël Guillou from the
“Plateforme de Spectrométrie Isotopique ” of the LIENSs
laboratory (UMR 7266, CNRS – La Rochelle University) for their
assistance during stable isotope analyses.