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Review of the 2007 budget, draft 2008 budget and forecast budget for 2009
Antarctic Marine Ecosystem Models to be held in Hobart in August 2008 at a cost of A$120 500, and ... Interpreter Services for SCIC at a cost of A$88 000 in 2008, and approximately A$ 66 000 for 2009. There is no ... outcome of the budget for 2007, a draft of the 2008 budget and an indicative forecast for the 2009 budget ... . The presentation is in the format determined by the Commission at its 2002 Meeting. The expenditure ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVI/04 : Author(s): Executive Secretary
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Climate change and precautionary spatial protection: ice shelves
, particularly in the Antarctic Peninsula region. One of the most evident signs of climate change has been ice ... shelf collapse; overall, 87% of the Peninsula’s glaciers have retreated in recent decades. Ice shelf ... collapse will lead to new marine habitats and to biological colonisation. Colonisation of these habitats ... to return that were last present during the last interglacial, a warmer period than at present. In ...
Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/17 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and S.M. Grant (UK)
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Proposal for an experimental crab fishery in Subarea 48.3
years/fishing seasons. Phase 1 occurs at the start of the first fishing season and is a "survey ... population dynamics of P. spinosissima, and consists of three phases to be conducted over a period of two ... fishing operations continue until the TAC for the first fishing season is attained. Phase 2 starts at the ... beginning of the second fishing season and is a series of three depletion experiments conducted in local ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-93/22 : Author(s): George Watters (USA)
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USING GENETIC CONNECTIVITY TO IDENTIFY VULNERABLE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS (VMES) IN ANTARCTICA – THE ISSUE OF SCALE
. At present, the available data is very incomplete, and an understanding of the generality of these ... genetic connectivity in benthic invertebrates at differing spatial scales in Antarctica. This information ... is valuable for understanding the potential resilience of benthic communities under threat from ... bottom fishing. Genetic connectivity allows insight into the realized dispersal of organisms, i.e. the ...
Meeting Document : WS-VME-09/06 : Author(s): Wilson, N.G.
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Towards an assessment of the stock of the ommastrephid squid Martialia hyadesi in the Scotia Sea: data from predators
% of which is taken by southern elephant seals, and the other species may take at least a further 51400 ... exploitation of the sub-Antarctic ommastrephid species Martialia hyadesi will be attempted in the future. This ... squid is an important component of the diet of several species of albatross and the southern elephant ... 308016 tonnes per year. The proportion of total annual production of Martialia taken by predators cannot ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-IX/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Krill biomass estimates for South Georgia, December and January 1996/97
backscattering strength at 120 and 38kHz (mvbsl20 kHz- mvbs38kHz between 2 and 12 dB indicative of krill). Mean ... conducted within two 80 x 100 km areas over the shelf-break to the north-east and north-west of South ... Georgia during December/January 1996/97. Netting suggested that the mean lengths of krill within the ... box-specific krill target strength (TS) values of-38.89 and-38.59 dB kg-1. Acoustic signals believed ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/48 : Author(s): Goss, C., Watkins, J.L., Brierley, A.S.
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Antarctic ecosystem management
for the management of the commercial exploitation of the marine living resources of the Southern ocean ... . More particularly, practical approaches are suggested for managing the exploitation of krill and fish ... in accordance with the objectives and requirements of Article II of the Convention for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). Quantitative predictions, and hence multi-species ...
Meeting Document : WG-DCH-84/03 : Author(s): D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)
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Seal mitigation measures on trawl vessels fishing for krill in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3.
deaths in the fishery. WG-EMM requested that the UK provide further details of the methods employed ... in the fishery. WG-EMM requested that the UK provide further details of the methods employed for consideration ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/P1 : Author(s): Charman, C., Clark, J., Hooper, J., Agnew, D.
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Growth per molt of male snow crab Chionoecetes opilio from Conception and Bonavista Bays, Newfoundland
, Newfoundland, in order to estimate the increase in size at the time of molting. Ninety-two animals were ... recaptured which had usable information on growth increments. Based on the amount of growth, we hypothesized ... that 20 of these had molted once while the remainder molted twice. Two lines of evidence support this ... interpretation. First, animals in the group presumed to have molted twice were at liberty on average twice as ...
Meeting Document : WS-CRAB-93/12 : Author(s): D.M. Taylor and J.M. Hoenig (USA)
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Proposal for the establishment of a marine CCAMLR MPA in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) – First conceptual outline
study aiming at a Weddell Sea MPA, (ii) give a systematic overview of our preliminary data retrieval ... domains CCAMLR member states were asked to take the lead in MPA planning. At the CCAMLR meeting in 2012 ... , the Commission welcomed the offer of Germany to take the lead in developing a Weddell Sea MPA for ... consideration in 2014. Subsequently, the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/22 : Author(s): K. Teschke, B. Dorschel, J. Gutt, S. Hain, H. Hellmer, K. Jerosch, R. Knust, K.-H. Kock, M. Schlüter, V. Siegel and T. Brey (Germany)