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1. Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia, during the 2006 winter and 2006/07 breeding season

   total of 41 winter entanglements were observed in the reporting period compared to 2 observed in the ... loop of rope similar to that shown in appendix three. Plastic packaging bands were the second most ... ) were involved in 56% of all entanglements in winter and 53% in the summer. Overall females made up the ... majority of the sexed individuals in all age classes (43%) compared to males (33%) and the remainder ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/17 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

2. Change in environmental conditions of the Southern Ocean observed by satellites and data-assimilating models between 1981 and 2019

   Abstract:  We provide a summary of environmental change in the Southern Ocean over the period of ... movement north of the Subantarctic Front; (3) increasing chl-a and NPP in the Subantarctic Front and around ... the southern limit of the ACC except in the Ross Sea region; (4) decreasing chl-a and NPP in the Ross ... Sea sector and on the Antarctic continental shelf; (5) gradual loss of sea-ice in the Amundsen Sea and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/39 : Author(s): M. Pinkerton

3. Progress towards an assessment of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 882C–H for the years 2002/03 to 2017/18 using a two-area model

   collect mark-recapture data in the South to inform the estimation of biomass in the South. Simulation work ... size of the population in the south and migration rates between areas. Biomass estimates are in ... of the tag recaptures in the South (almost all recaptures in research block 882_2). We recommend that ... fishing effort, as well as further investigations of the distribution of fish in relation to their length ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/37 : Author(s): S. Mormede and S. Parker

4. Mackerel icefish biomass and distribution on the results of acoustic survey carried out in February–March 2002

   estimates of icefish were made by comparison an observed TS in situ histograms with the size composition of ... are also available. The bottom biomass resulted in the estimate of 62,328.0 tonnes. The sum acoustic ... estimate of the icefish biomass in the subarea of South Georgia amounted to 92.6 thous. tonnes. Nearly 30 ... % of this biomass was concentrated in the pelagic zone. If acoustic estimates of pelagic and bottom ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/44 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina, V.Yu. Sunkovich, A.P. Malyshko and Zh.A. Frolkina

5. Proposal for the removal of night setting requirement for autoline vessels fishing in Division 58.5.2

   fishing in Division 58.5.2 to occur at any time of the day/night cycle. The proposal forms part of an ... results of the first two years longline fishing in 58.5.2: a total of 2.2 million hooks have been set and ... fishery in daylight and in summer suggest that the absence of seabird mortality in 58.5.2 is due to the ... low incidence of longline-vulnerable seabirds in winter, the minimum line sink rate and the use of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/73 : Author(s): G. Robertson and B. Baker (Australia)

6. Spatial and seasonal distribution of adult Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean: predictions using boosted regression trees

   of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean. Nearly 20 000 samples from the ... ) of adult O. similis between November and March in much of the Southern Ocean. No investigation was ... conditions in a broadly similar way throughout the Southern Ocean. Compared to a compilation of nethaul data ... from the literature, the abundance model explained 34% of the variance in surface concentrations of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P14 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, A.N.H. Smith, B. Raymond, G.W. Hosie, B. Sharp, J.R. Leathwick and J.M. Bradford-Grieve

7. Research plan for the 2015/16 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.2

   by all effective vessels were analyzed for the improvement of stock assessment in the research blocks ... to be more progressed in SSRU 58.4.2A. Understanding of the resource structure through clarification ... management of Dissostichus spp. population(s) in data- poor exploratory fisheries. During the second three ... WG-FSA in 2013 in order to maximize the expectation of tag-recapture to the extent possible under the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/04 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

8. Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia, during the 2003 winter and 2003/04 breeding season

   Abstract:  In the fourteenth consecutive winter of the survey at Bird Island, South Georgia, the ... classified as severe (71%). In contrast the sixteenth consecutive summer of reporting saw a decrease of 45 ... summer observations). Of the entanglements where the animal could be sexed, males made up the majority in ... increased effort in ensuring correct disposal of debris with the potential to entangle wildlife at sea ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/14 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

9. A CHARACTERISATION OF THE TOOTHFISH FISHERY IN SUBAREAS 88.1 AND 88.2 FROM 1997/98 TO 2008/09

   in depth/location of fishing, and length and age structure of the population. The catch limit was ... . However, the fishing effort in each of the SSRUs continues to vary due to several factors including the ... distribution of sea-ice, the SSRU catch and bycatch limits, and an increase in knowledge of the various grounds ... CHARACTERISATION OF THE TOOTHFISH FISHERY IN SUBAREAS 88.1 AND 88.2 FROM 1997/98 TO 2008/09 Approval:  Approved ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/36 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, A. Dunn and S. Mormede (New Zealand)

10. Temporal variation in Antarctic sea-ice: analysis of a long-term fast-ice record from the South Orkney Islands

    Abstract:  Detection of climate-induced change in marine ecosystems requires a knowledge of the ... variability in Southern Ocean sea-ice dynamics. We present the first analysis of a series of fast-ice duration ... indicate that there has been a long term decline in the duration of sea-ice at the South Orkney Islands in ... the result of a reduction in the duration of fast-ice during the 19405 and 1950s. There was a ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/80 : Author(s): Symon, C., Murphy, E.J., Priddle, J., Clarke, A.

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