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Ross Sea Biodiversity, Part I: validation of the 2007 CCAMLR Bioregionalisation Workshop results towards including the Ross Sea in a representative network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean
Abstract: This report provides the scientific basis, validating the results of the CCAMLR ... Bioregionalization Workshop (2007) as well as the report of ASOC (2010), for identifying the Ross Sea as one of 11 ... areas deserving close scrutiny for inclusion in a network of marine protected areas. CCAMLR (2007 ... ) identified the Ross Sea as an area of high biodiversity on the basis of its high physical heterogeneity; ASOC ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/11 : Author(s): D.G. Ainley, G. Ballard and J. Weller (USA)
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Calculation of indices of sea-ice concentration using digital images from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre
Abstract: A method is described for calculating indices of sea ice distribution from digital data ... distributed by the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, Colorado, USA. Data consist of an image of the Antarctic ... , made up of 312x332 pixels, each having a dimension of 25x25km, for every day in the year. Primary data ... of the distance of sea ice from CEMP sites, the northerly position of the sea ice edge, and the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/11 : Author(s): Agnew, D.J.
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DEVELOPMENT OF A REGISTRY OF VULNERABLE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS IN THE CONVENTION AREA
Abstract: Conservation Measure (CM) 22-06 requires the Secretariat to maintain an inventory of ... fishery and their Flag States of the location of VME risk areas and fine-scale rectangles. The Secretariat ... has established an interim VME registry for archiving notifications of encounters with VMEs during the ... course of research surveys (CM 22-06) and VME-indicator notifications from fishing vessels (CM 22-07 ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/06 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Towards the development of an assessment of stock abundance for Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C–G – a discussion paper
Abstract: This paper frames a discussion for improving the assessment of toothfish abundance for ... SSRUs 88.2C–G. We initially provide a characterisation of the fishery and a summary of available tagging ... 2 fish have been recaptured. It is likely that the lack of tag recaptures in this region has been ... caused primarily by the poor spatial overlap of released tagged fish with subsequent fishing effort. By ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-14/28 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet and S.J. Parker (New Zealand)
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Status of the South Georgia subarea (48.3) on satellite monitoring of the sea surface temperature, December 1999–January 2000
Abstract: Data of satellite monitoring (GOES-E) of the sea surface temperature (SST) and realtime ... December, 1999- January, 2000. Using the database of the SST maps for 1990-1991 and the current standard ... weekly SST maps, we have developed mean monthly SST maps, maps of the SST anomalies, and maps of ... difference between the current SST maps (the season of 1999-2000) and those for the season of 1990-1991 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/20 : Author(s): G. Vanyushin and A. Korobochka (Russia)
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Some aspects of size composition dynamics of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) from the Ross Sea (Statistical Subarea 88.1)
Abstract: The analysis of the data on size composition of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus ... mawsoni) from catches in different statistical areas of the Ross Sea was given. Biological data for two ... the size composition of the fished part of Antarctic toothfish population. It was noted that during ... both periods of the fishery, in the southern statistical areas (SSRU H, I, K, L), the portion of small ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/17 : Author(s): A.K. Zaytsev (Ukraine)
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REPORT OF THE CCAMLR OBSERVER TO THE INTERSESSIONAL MEETING ON THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION (IWC) (6 to 8 March 2008, London, UK)
Abstract: The intersessional meeting focused on the organisation and future of the IWC. The ... meeting identified a range of options for streamlining the working methods and practices of the Commission ... result of these discussions, the Commission was able to develop consensus documents on both improved ... practices and a path towards resolution of substantive issues affecting the IWC. The intersessional meeting ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/31 : Author(s): CCAMLR Observer (United Kingdom)
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Report of ACAP Working Group on Status and Trends Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels – Status and Trends Working Group
Abstract: 1. The first Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP1) of the Agreement on the ... Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) agreed to review the population status, trends and demography of ... albatrosses (21 species) and petrels (seven species) listed on Annex 1 of the Agreement (MOP1 Final Report ... aim of collecting and collating information on breeding numbers and critical population and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/40
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Midwater trawl catchability regarding quantitative estimation of krill biomass using the method of trawling surveys on abundance
distributional pattern in the surveyed area enable to increase reliability of the biomass estimates. Comparative ... analysis for catchability of fishery midwater trawls and small research trawls, when Isaaks-Kidd trawl was ... taken as an example, proved the latters not to be suitable for krill biomass estimation using method of ... surveyed ground and the biomass estimates were characterized by high relative error. Standard methods of ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/32 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina (USSR)
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Plan of research program of the Russian Federation in Subarea 48.5 (Weddell Sea) in season 2012/13
Abstract: Closed mostly within the Weddell Sea Subarea 48.5 is one of the closed data-poor CCAMLR ... subareas, where stock assessment should be carried out. In spite of hard ice conditions during most of the ... time of the year, this large water area is very similar with the Ross Sea. This similarity, which could ... as one of the most promising area for exploratory fishery of Dissostichus sp. However, fishery in ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/04 : Author(s): A.F. Petrov, V.A. Tatarnikov and I.I. Gordeev (Russia)