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A brief exploitation of the stone crab Lithodes murrayi (Henderson) off south west Africa, 1979/80
uneconomic level. The extent of the L. murrayi grounds is examined on the basis of catch-per-unit-effort data ... . The species is largely confined to a bathymetric corridor of 500–700 m off South West Africa. Prior to ... crabs were present in small numbers over a much larger area. Over 90 per cent of the fishing effort was ... applied in this area of high concentration, accounting for almost 95 per cent by mass of the total catch ...
Meeting Document : WS-CRAB-93/21 : Author(s): R. Melville-Smith (South Africa)
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Destruction of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems by a rapidly increasing fur seal population
Abstract: The terrestrial environment of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic ... past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus ... of seals were present on the island prior to the initiation of commercial hunting in the early 1820s ... . The impact that the continuing increase of these seals had made on the island's terrestrial and ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/06 : Author(s): R.I. Lewis Smith (United Kingdom)
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The ecosystem approach to managing fisheries: achieving conservation objectives for predators of fished species
approach for maintaining ecological relationships and providing for the recovery of depleted populations in ... ecosystem, (ii) what should be the conservation objectives for predators of fished species, and (iii) what ... account of uncertainties in knowledge of the structure of ecosystems. Estimates of production arising ... for management purposes because they integrate across a range of “ecosystem” effects and, as ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/P04 : Author(s): A.J. Constable
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Review of cetacean depredation in CCAMLR statistical subareas
Abstract: Depredation, the removal of fish from longlines by large marine predators, has been ... observed throughout the CCAMLR management area. Loss of fish through depredation can cause financial loss ... assessments through the underestimation of total mortality resulting from fishing and depredation combined. In ... other subareas the problem is known but not currently addressed. The areas in which the establishment of ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/27 : Author(s): M. Soeffker (United Kingdom) and P. Tixier (France)
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Analysis of the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1 considering trawl fishing method used (2010–2016)
Abstract: An analysis of spatio-temporal variability of CPUE indices in the krill fishery in ... variability with account of the fishing method used is presented. Particular attention is paid to the fishery ... in the Bransfield strait, where the main fishery in Subarea 48.1 is concentrated The possibility of ... using the standardized CPUE indices as krill biomass density indices for monitoring the variability of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/27 : Author(s): S. Kasatkina S. and L. Boronina
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Microbial study of toothfish tissue in Divisions 58.4.1 in 2014/15
Abstract: Dissostichus mawsoni, the Antarctic toothfish, is a local organism of the Southern ... Ocean. The fish is a member of the Notothenioidei, which lives in the sub-zero (-2 °C) continental shelf ... waters of Antarctica. The Antarctic toothfish are protected from freezing by the existence of antifreeze ... explore the bacterial population which is present in the tissues of Antarctic toothfish by using both ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/32 : Author(s): Delegation of the Republic of Korea
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The krill maturity cycle: a conceptual description of the seasonal cycle in Antarctic krill
Abstract: A long term study on the maturity cycle of Antarctic krill was conducted in a research ... temperature and food conditions, and the succession of female maturity stages and intermoult periods were ... observed. In all cases regression and re-maturation of external sexual characteristics were observed, but ... there were differences in length of the cycle and intermoult periods between the experimental conditions ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/23 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, T. Yoshida, L. Finley, P. Cramp and S. Nicol (Australia)
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Preliminary assessment of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) for the Heard Island Plateau region (Division 58.5.2) based on a survey in June 2005
Abstract: A survey of Mackerel Icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari,was undertaken in Division 58.5.2 ... in the vicinity of Heard Island in June 2005 to provide the information for an assessment of short ... -term annual yield in the 2005/2006 CCAMLR season. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of yield ... using the assessment methods of CCAMLR. It is proposed that a one-year projection be used in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/39 : Author(s): A.J. Constable, T. Lamb and R. Williams (Australia)
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Review of research into seabird–fishery interactions
(post 1990), and in relation to direct effects of fishing through fisheries mortalities was considered ... . The research was divided into five main groupings: a) estimation of bycatch; b) population estimation ... allow an assessment of the utility, current methodologies, and constraints of research into seabird ... biology and fishery interactions. Following from the findings of the review, recommendations were ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/42 : Author(s): R. Alderman (New Zealand)
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On experimental approach to extend boundaries of exploratory fishery on Antarctic toothfish (D. mawsoni) in the Ross Sea (Subareas 88.1 and 88.2) in the meso- and bathypelagial layers
Abstract: Based on the analysis of data on the searching fishery on Antarctic toothfish (D ... . mawsoni) by the Russian fishing vessels "Yantar" and "Volna" in the seasons of 2002/03 ... -2003/04 it has been obtained that the long-line catchability and size composition of fish depended on ... the areas and depth of Antarctic toothfish concentration the need for extension of searching fishery ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/19 : Author(s): Delegation of Russia