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Antarctic icefishes (Channichthyidae) – a unique family of fishes – a review
Abstract: Icefish are a family of species unique among vertebrates in that they possess no ... haemoglobin. With the exception of one species, icefish live only in the cold – stable and oxygen – rich ... environment of the Southern Ocean. It is still questionable how old icefish are in evolutionary terms: they ... they are 15 – 20 Ma old and started to evolve some time after the formation of the Antarctic ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/10 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany)
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ALLOCATION OF RESEARCH HAULS IN THE EXPLORATORY FISHERIES FOR DISSOSTICHUS SPP. IN SUBAREAS 48.6 AND 58.4 IN 2008/09
account for SSRUs where fishing had not been previously reported, and SSRUs where the number of positions ... replacement) of 5 research hauls per stratum (fished and lightly fished/unfished) for each vessel. Where ... each vessel in each SSRU (position separation distances 7-120 nmiles). A total of 1082 starting ... of Insung No.1 (SSRU 5841C) and Shinsei Maru No.3 (SSRU 5842A) where the setting of research lines ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-09/06 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Preliminary assessment models of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea including data from the 2005/06 season
Abstract: We provide an update of the Bayesian sex and age structured population stock assessment ... in a similar, though slightly higher, estimate of initial and current biomass as the 2005 base case ... model. The inclusion of the 2005 release and the 2006 recapture data had the effect of only slightly ... modifying the estimates from the models, suggesting that the new data had a similar pattern to that of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-06/11 : Author(s): Dunn, A. & Hanchet, S.M.
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Analysis of catch and effort data from the IUU fishing vessel Kunlun
Abstract: Australia has undertaken an analysis of information relating to the Illegal, Unreported ... the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Area (CCAMLR Area) in order to ... verify its right to fly its flag, pursuant to Article 110 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of ... Area in 2014-15 The majority of fishing was undertaken off the Antarctic coast not far from Australia’s ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/18 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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A feedback approach to Ecosystem Based Management: model predictive control of the Antarctic krill fishery
Abstract: The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) aims ... to develop a feedback approach to aid Ecosystem Based Management (EBM) of the Antarctic krill fishery ... rules based on their predicted performance in a model of the controlled system. Here we use MPC to ... develop a robust control strategy for a simulation model of a spatially resolved predator-prey system. We ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/19 : Author(s): S. Hill and M. Cannon (United Kingdom)
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Expanding CCAMLR’s consideration of whales in science and management
significant advancements in the understanding of the status of whales, much of scientific and management ... relevance to CCAMLR. As CCAMLR works to progress management of the krill fishery and develops a network of ... the foraging needs of baleen whales including humpback, fin, sei, blue and minke whales in krill ... allow for the inclusion of whales in CEMP. • Assist in the collection and analysis of data to ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/24 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Increasing abundance of Type A killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the coastal waters around the Antarctic Peninsula
and we need to understand the impact on marine ecosystems. A diverse community of killer whales ... killer whales sighted in other parts of the world. Sightings of Type A around the AP have been ... increasing in recent years, including observations of predation on a number of whale and pinniped species ... photographs) collected between austral summers 2005/06 to 2016/17 to describe the movement patterns of these ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/49 : Author(s): H. Fearnbach, J.W. Durban, D.K. Ellifrit and R.L. Pitman
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Demography of Antarctic krill in the Elephant Island area (Antarctic Peninsula) during austral summer 2001
around Elephant Island during 27 January to 4 February 2001. Results show a spatial separation of the ... juvenile and the spawning stock. The station grid was extended to the south, where a large proportion of ... high krill abundance and the high recruitment index reflect the end of a succession of years with poor ... for a successful spawning season, was G = 0.99, indicating an early initiation of the spawning season ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/10 : Author(s): V. Siegel (Germany), B. Bergström (Sweden), U. Mühlenhardt-Siegel (Germany) and M. Thomasson (Sweden)
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Proposal to strengthen monitoring and control of transhipments
), nor is it clear whether transhipment constitutes fishing for the purposes of Conservation Measure 10 ... -02. The delegation of the United States proposes to amend CCAMLR Conservation Measures 10-02 and 10 ... Area, or of marine living resources harvested within the Convention Area, must be licensed and notified ... Vessel Record containing the vessels of NCPs that would be authorized to tranship with Contracting Party ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/27 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA
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DETECTION OF VULNERABLE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS IN THE SOUTHERN SCOTIA ARC (CCAMLR SUBAREAS 48.1 AND 48.2) THROUGH RESEARCH BOTTOM TRAWL SAMPLING AND UNDERWATER IMAGERY
Abstract: High densities of vulnerable marine ecosystem (VME) indicator taxa were encountered in ... were detected in most cases utilizing occurrence and abundance of VME indicator taxa in research bottom ... trawl samples, as well as by way of in situ observations with an underwater photographic/video imaging ... system. Using standardized densities of VME taxa from bottom trawl samples, we propose one possible ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/32 : Author(s): S.J. Lockhart and C.D. Jones (USA)