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Research plan for exploratory fishing for toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) in 2015/16 in Division 58.4.1
block during WG-FSA 2014 using CPUE x seabed analogy method. In the absence of an assessment using the ... CCAMLR decision rules, the catch limit should remain unchanged at 724 tonnes for 2015/16 to maximize the ... expectation of tag-recapture. Author(s): Delegation of France Title: Research plan for exploratory fishing ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/16 : Author(s): Delegation of France
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Distribution of Antarctic krill concentrations exploited by Japanese krill trawlers and minke whates
Abstract: The distribution of krill (Euphausia superba) concentrations derived from Japanese ... sectors. In early summer (December) the areas of operation for both fisheries were affected by the ... latitudinal position and shape of the pack-ice edge. Harvesting was frequently conducted in the vicinity of a ... pack-ice edge. When the ice-edge was at its southernmost limit (January- March), krill fishing data ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/31 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Estimation of the fishery–krill–predator overlap
at nine levels of spatio-temporal resolution and using normal, exponential and uniform foraging ... Abstract: Work undertaken during the intersessional period has enabled better use of the krill ... fishery data, and a comparison between the three existing indices of fishery-krill-predator overlap used ... the level of overlap in recent years (1995-98) than estimated with either the catch in the CPD or the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/11 : Author(s): Secretariat
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A method to evaluate selection of Antarctic krill in towed fishing gears
) apply different trawl designs. Very little information exists on the size selectivity of E. superba ... . Size selectivity describes a given trawls designs ability to catch different sizes of a population and ... is valuable information for the management of harvested marine stocks. Size selectivity data is ... traditionally collected during timely and costly fishing experiments in the field where one design is tested at ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/34 : Author(s): L.A. Krag, B. Herrmann (Denmark), S. Iversen, A. Engås, S. Nordrum and B.A. Krafft (Norway)
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Proposal for a general conservation measure to implement Marine Protected Areas in the CCAMLR Area by 2012, including management arrangements needed in conservation measures that will govern the MPAs in CCAMLR in the future
Abstract: At CCAMLR XXIX (2010) Australia presented the ‘ Proposal for a general conservation ... measure to implement a Representative System of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas (RSAMPA) in CCAMLR by ... the future ’ (CCAMLR-XXIX/38 Rev. 1). This proposal is a revision of that presented to CCAMLR XXIX and ... provide the framework of common actions and requirements for the declaration, administration and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/30 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Interactions between cetaceans and long-lining operations for Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides around South Georgia
twenty-five of these. During setting of lines neither mortalities nor interactions were recorded. All ... interactions occured during hauling operations, both during the day and at night. Killer whales (Orcinus orca ... )were present during one haul, from which 11 intact fish were taken aboard, compared to a mean of 510 ... operations and may have been removing fish captured on the lines. Numbers of sperm whales varied with ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/16 : Author(s): J.R. Ashford (United Kingdom) and P.S. Rubilar (Chile)
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Notes on the availability of three important finfish species in offshore waters of the lower South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1)
Abstract: In 1998, an offshore scientific trawl survey of bottom fish sampling within the 50-500 ... m isobath of the lower South Shetlands Islands (King George Island to Low Island) was conducted. In ... addition, the abundance of two commercially important Antarctic fish, Notothenia rossii and Gobionotothen ... lower South Shetlands Islands from inshore sites mainly at Potter Cove from 1983 to 1999. These studies ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/31 : Author(s): C.D. Jones (USA), E.R. Barrera-Oro, E.R. Marschoff and R.J. Casaux (Argentina)
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CCAMLR conservation measures: review of the numbering system
use of Roman numerals to denote the Commission meeting at which measures were adopted would be ... Abstract: Conservation measures are presently numbered using a combination of consecutive Arabic ... since 1984. However, the use of consecutive numbers does not provide information on topics covered by ... the measures, nor does it provide an implicit reference to the history of the measures. An improved ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXI/15 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Biological features of the icefish Champsocephalus gunnari from commercial catches in Subarea 48.3 during the period from 8 December 1999 until 31 January 2000
western shelf of the South Georgia Island. Icefish 26-40 cm in length, with the average size of 30.3 cm ... made up the bulk of the catches. Length-frequency distribution was characterized by bimodality, with ... frequency peaks under 27-29 and 33 cm for fish aged 3 and 4 years. The by-catch of small size ... Champsocephalus gunnari (with the length of 24 cm and less) amounted to, on the average, 0.6% per a haul. The male ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/20 : Author(s): V.L. Senioukov (Russia)
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Relative abundance of large whales around South Georgia
Abstract: To assess large whale stocks following the cessation of land-based South Georgia ... Island (NW of South Georgia) between 1979 and 1998, and mariner sightings between 1992 and 1997. All ... growing at 7% per annum. In contrast, blue and fin whales appear to be less abundant. A single blue whale ... mother-calf pair was observed off the Shag Rocks in February 1997. Extirpation of animals from this ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/34 : Author(s): M.J. Moore (USA), S.D. Berrow (UK), B.A. Jensen (USA), P. Carr (UK), R. Sears (Canada) and V.J. Rowntree, R. Payne and P.K. Hamilton (USA)