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Tracking Antarctica, A New WWF report on the state of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
Abstract: ASOC member organization WWF supports a precautionary and science-based approach to ... Antarctica- provides a scientific update on the state of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It identifies ... Antarctic are preserved for generations to come. The report will be available publicly as a digital ... . Author(s): Submitted by ASOC Title: Tracking Antarctica, A New WWF report on the state of Antarctica ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/BG/30 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Meeting of Antarctic experts comes to a close
week of October with the Meeting of the Commission, CCAMLR’s decision-making body. CCAMLR is a ... products from fishing vessels in the entire Convention Area. CCAMLR initiated a major new program to foster ... capacity building with a General Capacity Building Fund that will support all Contracting Parties, with ... for young scientists. A new survey has estimated that the size of the krill stock in the South ...
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Zonal structure of zooplankton communities in the Southern Ocean south of Australia: results from a 2150 km continuous plankton recorder transect
2002 a 2150-km Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) transect was conducted along 140°E, between 47.02°S ... strongly correlated with frontal/oceanographic zones. These assemblages appeared to be structured by a ... a high proportion of sub-tropical and temperate species from the waters to its south. The study area ... sectors, was not a zone of distinct ecological transition. Two of the identified assemblages were located ...
Meeting Document : WS-BSO-07/P6 : Author(s): Hunt, B.P.V. and G. Hosie
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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
establishing a Balleny Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA). The ecological importance of the Balleny Islands ... focus is on the CCAMLR values. A review of existing information reveals that the Balleny Islands are ... sustainability of existing and potential fisheries in the region. A strategically located Balleny Islands MPA ... extending outward from the islands would provide a critical buffer between ecologically important ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/25 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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A characterisation of the toothfish fishery in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 from 1997/98 to 2011/12
SSRUs, but there has been a marked reduction in median fish length in SSRUs 88.1H and 88.1I over the ... last 2–3 years. This appears to be at least partly a result of vessels carrying out more fishing in ... shallower parts of the slope, but could also reflect fishing on different parts of the slope, or a pulse of ... present a characterisation of the main six bycatch groups including macrourids, skates, icefish, eel cods ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/42 : Author(s): M.L. Stevenson ,S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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A spatially explicit population dynamics operating model for Antarctic toothfish in the habitable depths of the Ross Sea region
Abstract: We present a spatially explicit age-structured population dynamics operating model for ... Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea region, for a medium scale spatial resolution (189 spatial cells ... considered suitable habitat for toothfish (unrestricted model). The semi-restricted model provides a ... examine the consequences of alternative fish movement hypotheses given the data available. For a given ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/53 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn, S. Parker and S. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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CHARACTERISING KRILL FISHERY DYNAMICS USING A RANDOM WALK MODEL
-distances were well described by a Levy Flight type random walk model. The inferred distribution pattern of ... tonnes/hour and 7 tonnes/hour in autumn in Area 48.1. Fishers seemed to be forced to make a number of ... grounds. Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, S. Candy and A. Constable (Australia) Title: CHARACTERISING KRILL ... FISHERY DYNAMICS USING A RANDOM WALK MODEL Approval: Approved ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/18 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, S. Candy and A. Constable (Australia)
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A method for preparing large numbers of otolith sections for viewing by scanning electron microscope
Abstract: In an investigation of the age structure of a population of Notothenia coriiceps ... reported on a method used for processing large numbers of otoliths using a scanning electron microscope ... , K. Robinson and M.G. White (United Kingdom) Title: A method for preparing large numbers of otolith ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-93/07 : Author(s): J.R. Ashford, K. Robinson and M.G. White (United Kingdom)
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Proposal for a CCAMLR Science Special Volume
Abstract: CCAMLR Science provides a valuable mechanism for promoting the science undertaken in ... . However, in recent years there has been a decrease in the number of papers submitted to CCAMLR Science for ... Chile propose the publication of a special volume of CCAMLR Science, addressing the issue of CCAMLR MPAs ... . Author(s): Delegations of Argentina and Chile Title: Proposal for a CCAMLR Science Special Volume ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/16 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina and Chile
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Annual migrations of pelagic fish stocks into a krill hotspot
Abstract: We report here on the existence of seasonal fish migrations into a krill hotspot ... from krill on a single frequency. Trawl catches in the area during 2019 gave high densities of mackerel ... icefish, so this species is a likely candidate, if these targets are swimbladderless notothenoids, their ... . Author(s): T. Klevjer Title: Annual migrations of pelagic fish stocks into a krill hotspot Approval ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/33 : Author(s): T. Klevjer