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Report on progress with the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)
System (SOOS), noting in particular the importance of the SOOS to the work of CCAMLR and the key role of ... CCAMLR in implementation of the SOOS, for example through the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (CEMP ... ). The SOOS plan has been made available for community comment (www.scar.org/soos) for a period of two ... months, with a deadline of 1 October. A final version of the plan will be circulated before the end of ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/16 : Author(s): A joint submission by SCAR and SCOR
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Food consumption by predators in CCAMLR Integrated Study Regions
Abstract: A detailed description of the structure and mode of operation of a model for estimating ... food consumption of seabird predators is provided. This model is a development of earlier ones used in ... . Specimen outputs are provided, illustrating the changes produced by using these new sub-models. Results of ... initial sensitivity analyses indicate particular sensitivity to estimation of metabolic energy ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-IX/BG/16 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands) as a model area for the long-term marine monitoring program – reasons and opportunities
Abstract: The objectives of this work are to demonstrate the unique character of Admiralty Bay ... , King George Island, South Shetlands (Subarea 48.1) in terms of its location, hydrology and existing ... Antarctic areas. Because of its location, semi‐closed nature, and history of intensive environmental and ... ecological research (hundreds of papers in various disciplines published in a variety of scientific journals ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/59 : Author(s): A. Panasiuk-Chodnicka, M. Korczak-Abshire, M.I. Żmijewska, K. Chwedorzewska, E. Szymczak, D. Burska, D. Pryputniewicz-Flis and K. Łukawska-Matuszewska (Poland)
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Principles for evaluating data collection plans in data-poor exploratory fisheries
faster than the acquisition of information necessary to ensure that the fishery can and will be conducted ... in accordance with the principles set forth in Article II of the Convention. However, several times ... over the last five years the Scientific Committee has noted with concern the lack of progress in ... developing robust assessments of status of Dissostichus spp. in exploratory fisheries. Each additional year ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/08 : Author(s): P.E. Ziegler, D.C. Welsford and A.J. Constable (Australia)
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Conserving pattern and process in the Southern Ocean: designing a marine protected area for the Prince Edward Islands
Economic Zone (EEZ) of its sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. The objectives of the MPA are to: (1 ... ) contribute to a national and global representative system of MPAs; (2) serve as a scientific reference point ... to inform future management; (3) contribute to the recovery of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus ... eleginoides); and (4) reduce the bird bycatch of the toothfish fishery, particularly of albatrosses and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXV/BG/16 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa
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Variability in krill length distribution in 48.1 derived from data collected by scientific observers
Abstract: Information on the length distribution of krill in the catch, and the spatial and ... temporal patterns of krill length in the population is essential to assess krill population status and ... dynamics, and the impacts of a fishery on the stocks. Here, we use generalised additive models (GAM) and ... generalised additive mixed models (GAMM) to evaluate the spatial and temporal patterns of length in Antarctic ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/16 : Author(s): P. Ziegler, S. Kawaguchi D. Welsford and A. Constable (Australia)
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Operational interactions between cetaceans and the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) industrial fishery off Southern Chile
higher frequency than any other species during fishing operations. In 60% of all monitored sets sperm ... whales were present, while orcas (Orcinus orca) were found in only 10% of these. When cetaceans were ... present, evidence of damaged catch included lips, heads and trunks and a total of 121 lips, 16 heads and 3 ... trunks were recovered. Mean rate of predation was 3% (± 2% CI 95%; n=180 sets) and ranged between 0% and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/95 : Author(s): R. Hucke-Gaete, C.A. Moreno and J.A. Arata (Chile)
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Ocean acidification and the Southern Ocean
, including the Southern Ocean. The relative undersaturation of CaCO3 in the Southern Ocean suggests that ... their projected trajectory. Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate essential to shell forming ... organisms such as the pteropods that form the base of much of the Southern Ocean food chain. Orr et al (2005 ... assumes “business as usual”- emissions leading to 778 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere by 2100- aragonite will ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/24 : Author(s): ASOC Observer
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Adélie penguin diet: a pilot study directly comparing data from stomach flushing with faecal DNA analysis
Abstract: The diet composition of key species of penguin is currently monitored as part of the ... /January) in 2014/15 and 2015/16. Each method produced a similar pattern of penguin diet, with a shift from ... almost exclusively krill in 2014/15 to a mixture of fish and krill in 2015/16. Stomach flushing allows ... allowed more comprehensive sampling and DNA markers identified higher taxonomic diversity of fish prey ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/29 : Author(s): B. Deagle, J. McInnes, L. Emmerson, M. Dunn, S. Adlard and C. Waluda
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Monitoring, control and surveillance undertaken by Chile during 2017/18 season
Abstract: Within the framework of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ... Resources (CCAMLR), the Government of Chile conducts Fishing Inspection Operations to the area of the ... Convention. For this purpose, it provides the use of the Chilean Navy vessel, the OPV- 83 MARINERO FUENTEALBA ... . Likewise, the Second Commanders of the Navy vessels participating in the Antarctic Campaign are instructed ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVII/BG/18 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile