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SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND AGE STRUCTURE OF THE ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH (DISSOSTICHUS MAWSONI) IN THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA
Abstract: The Ross Sea has been geologically characterized by tectonic and glacial processes ... (Dissostichus mawsoni) are subject to an increasingly important commercial fishery in the Ross Sea and yet ... the availability of habitat for Antarctic toothfish a benthic habitat map of the Ross Sea was created based ... in the Ross Sea were superimposed on the habitat map and broken into discrete spatial areas. Differences ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/18 : Author(s): C.M. Brooks and J.R. Ashford (USA)
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Pursuit and polynyas in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
influence biological activity. We pursued daily transition of polynyas in the Ross Sea, Antarctica from 1978 ... through 1994 using images of sea ice concentrations by the satellite microwave observations. A typical ... polynya existed in the inner area of the Ross Sea in November of the each year. The shape of the polynya ... to the entrance of the Ross Sea. The polynyas usually open to the northern oceanic water late in December in each ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/31 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, T. Tanaka, Y. Okada, N. Kimura and S. Matsumura (Japan)
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CHINSTRAP PENGUINS: MISUNDERSTOOD AND VULNERABLE MONITORS OF ECOSYSTEM CHANGES IN THE SCOTIA SEA REGION OF ANTARCTICA
Abstract: Sea ice plays a critical role in structuring ecosystem dynamics throughout the Scotia ... Sea (SS) region, and variations in ice extent are hypothesized to affect predator populations ... of the SS, the “sea-ice hypothesis”, suggests that declines in the seasonal extent and duration of sea ice ... , 30 years of field studies in the WAP, coupled with more regional surveys throughout the Scotia Sea ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/17 : Author(s): W.Z. Trivelpice, J.T. Hinke, A.K. Miller, C. Reiss, S.G. Trivelpiece and G.M. Watters (USA)
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Review of biological parameters for Ross Sea skates
taken as bycatch in the Ross Sea toothfish fishery: Amblyraja georgiana and Bathyraja cf. eatonii ... from the Ross Sea and South Georgia, and of B. cf. eatonii from the Ross Sea and Heard Island ... outside the Ross Sea can be applied to Ross Sea skates. Length-weight regression relationships for male ... and female A. georgiana and B. cf. eatonii from the Ross Sea are provided. Male and female relationships ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/31 : Author(s): M.P. Francis (New Zealand)
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Abundance and trends in the breeding population of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) in the western Ross Sea
of Adélie penguin breeding pairs at colonies in the western Ross Sea. High angle oblique aerial ... . On average 870,465 pairs of Adélie penguins breed in the western Ross Sea each summer, with just over ... a quarter (27.5%) at colonies on Ross and Beaufort Islands (southern Ross Sea meta-population ... , 1981 to 2012. Colony growth rates for the southern Ross Sea meta-population showed a striking level ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/30 : Author(s): P. O’B. Lyver, M. Barron, K.J. Barton, S. Gordon (New Zealand), D. Ainley, A. Pollard (USA), P.R. Wilson and M.H. Pinkerton (New Zealand)
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CEMP indices: sea ice data
Abstract: The position of the sea ice edge around the Antarctic continent was digitised ... into MAPINFO GIS software from the Joint Ice Centre weekly charts of sea ice distribution. The digitised images ... F2: sea ice. Author(s): Secretariat Title: CEMP indices: sea ice data Approval: Approved ... The position of the sea ice edge around the Antarctic continent was digitised into MAPINFO GIS ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/15 : Author(s): Secretariat
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The Ross Sea cephalopod community: insights from stable isotope analysis
identified as having relatively high importance in the food-web of the Ross Sea. However, information ... on the trophic ecology of the cephalopod assemblage of the Ross Sea region is poor. Stable isotope signatures ... taxa sampled from the Ross Sea region. Samples were acquired through scientific trawls and from ... of feeding on relatively low trophic level prey within the Ross Sea, and the second with elevated isotopic ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/55 : Author(s): D.R. Thompson, M.H. Pinkerton, D.W. Stevens (New Zealand), Y. Cherel (France), S.J. Bury (New Zealand)
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Integrated analysis of the by-catch data in the Ross Sea toothfish fishery
Abstract: The indices of exploratory toothfish fishery in the Ross Sea for the period of 2008 ... in toothfish and non-target species distribution in the Ross Sea, but not the longline vessels and the flag ... ratio in the Ross Sea. The observed influence of the longline gear types (Autoline, Trotline ... the estimates of by-catch in the Ross Sea in the context of achieving the objectives of the CCAMLR Article II ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/13 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Kasatkina
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Observations of Adélie penguins in two seasons with contrasting weather and sea-ice conditions – a brief report
was characterised by unusual sea ice and weather condition. Strong southerly winds and snow were experienced ... at the colony during December coinciding with hatching and the guard stage. The sea ice in the Ross Sea was held ... in by the presence of the large icebergs. This resulted in extensive sea ice lasting into February adjacent ... with contrasting weather and sea-ice conditions – a brief report Approval: Approved ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/59 : Author(s): S. Olmastroni, F. Pezzo, V. Volpi and S. Focardi (Italy)
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New Zealand research voyages to the Ross Sea region in 2018 and 2019
to the Ross Sea region, and gives notice of a New Zealand 2019 research voyage to the Ross Sea region ... . The Ross Sea Environment and Ecosystem Voyage 2018 (TAN1802), took place from 9 February to 21 March 2018 ... with the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area Research and Monitoring Plan, under New Zealand’s Antarctic ... goals and study areas for the 2019 voyage are described and align with the Ross Sea region Marine ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/02 : Author(s): D. Bowden, R. O’Driscoll and M.H. Pinkerton