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Scientific justification for a marine protected area designation around the Balleny Islands to protect ecosystem structure and function in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica: progress report
Abstract: In 2000, the New Zealand delegation to CCAMLR proposed the designation of an Antarctic ... on the value of the area on and around the Balleny Islands, and the potential benefits of ... establishing a Balleny Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA). The ecological importance of the Balleny Islands ... Article 3 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. This paper’s ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/25 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Proposal for a skate tagging program in the Ross Sea region to estimate the local biomass trend for starry skates (Amblyraja georgiana)
Abstract: To progress development of a semi-quantitative and spatially explicit risk assessment ... /17 fishing season, noting that on average 89% of skates by weight are released alive (45 of 51 t ... annually). Catch data show that most of the skate catch consists of Amblyraja georgiana and that this ... biomass. Much of the A. georgiana catch occurs in SSRUs 88.1H and 88.1I in an area remaining open to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/38 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Parker and M. Francis
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Update on the Top Predator Alliance project, 2013–14 season: Killer whales
affected by the removal of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni; ‘toothfish’) in the Ross Sea region ... . However, extreme paucity of information about the diet of TCKW, and uncertainty regarding the degree of ... fishery to TCKW and other marine mammals and (b) mitigate potential risk by implementation of management ... recorded during 5 of 8 helicopter flights. For 3 of these observations, the prey was identifiable as ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/52 : Author(s): R. Eisert, M.H. Pinkerton (New Zealand), L. Torres (USA), R.J.C. Currey, P.H. Ensor, E.N. Ovsyanikova, I.N. Visser (New Zealand) and O.T. Oftedal (USA)
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Services and roles
developing Secretariat policies and actions that strengthen the organisational resilience of CCAMLR and the ... . Communications Provides logistical and technical support for the operation of the Commission in its four official ... support to the annual meetings of the Commission, including the translation of relevant reports and ... supporting documents of the Commission, Scientific Committee and their subsidiary bodies develops and ...
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Informative approaches to ageing Antarctic fishes
Abstract: Two concepts can be examined when studying the age of Antarctic fishes. Age can be ... considered in terms of the passage of time (chronological age), and it can also be examined as ' ... ;physiological time'. In this regard otoliths and post-mitotic tissues may contain a large amount of ... examination of otoliths by light and scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) methodology demonstrated that rhythmic ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR/86/FA/07 : Author(s): R.L. Radtke and K.T. Hill (USA)
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Krill fishery report: 2007 update
for krill in Area 48 in the 2006/07 season, and these vessels have taken 61876 t of krill to date. Two ... CCAMLR scientific observers have been deployed. The preliminary estimate of the total catch of krill for ... the season is approximately 111746 t. This compares with 106589 t of krill reported in the STATLANT ... data for 2005/06. With the exception of Korea and Poland, all Contracting Parties have submitted ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/05 : Author(s): Secretariat
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WG-CSD-87
Full Name: Working Group for the Development of a Conservation Strategy Location: Hobart ... Doc Number Title WG-CSD-87/02 Draft Agenda WG-CSD-87/03 List of Participants WG-CSD-87/06 Development ... of a Conservation strategy for Antarctic marine living resources Australia WG-CSD-87/07 EEC ... Background paper on Conservation strategy WG-CSD-87/08 IUCN statement for the 1987 meeting of the Commission ...
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REPORT ON THE ABANDONED GILLNET RETRIEVAL OPERATION CONDUCTED BY AUSTRALIA IN CCAMLR STATISTICAL DIVISION 58.4.3B (BANZARE BANK)
gillnets as a fishing method to target toothfish in the Convention area. Estimating the impact of IUU ... fishing is hampered by a lack of data on the design, deployment, catch and bycatch rates of gill nets ... (Statistical Division 58.4.3b), and the toothfish and bycatch found when a section of the gillnet was retrieved ... . Based on the amount of toothfish found in the 8 km long section of net retrieved, upwards of 29 tonnes ...
Meeting Document : TASO-09/10 : Author(s): Snowdon, D., Hamill, J., McEachan, F., Welsford, D.
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REVISED RESEARCH PLAN FOR TOOTHFISH IN DIVISION 58.4.4A and B BY SHINSEI MARU NO. 3 IN 2009/10
status and biological characteristics of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.4 a & b has been revised ... according to the recommendations of the working group. The working group recommended the consecutive ... research focusing on tagging program for a period of 3-5 years to estimate current stock size accurately ... division that includes 4 SSRUs, taking into account the conservative exploitation rate (less than 3.8 % of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/12 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Broadbandwidth sound scattering and absorption from krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica), Mysids (Praunus flexuousus and Neomysis integer) and shrimp (Crangon crangon)
Abstract: Sound scattering and absorption measurements were made of Northern krill ... (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) over the acoustical bandwidth of 30 to 210 kHz and compared to similar scattering ... measurements made of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba; Demer and Conti, 2003a). The measurements of total ... total target strengths (TTS) of crustaceans with markedly different shapes (i.e. Mysidacea, a mix of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/40 : Author(s): S.G. Conti, D.A. Demer (USA) and A.S. Brierley (United Kingdom)