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The fish diet of black-browed albatross Diomedea melanophrys and grey-headed albatross D. chrysostoma at South Georgia
60% by mass of the diet of grey-headed albatrosses in 1986 and 1994 respectively. We determined the ... (40% estimated biomass), whereas in 1994 Pseudochaenichthys georgianus was the main fish prey (57% of ... from the commercial fishery, which was active in 1986 but closed in 1994. Otherwise the fish diet of ... Abstract: The fish component of the diet of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses at South ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/11 : Author(s): Reid, K., Prince, P.A., Croxall, J.P.
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OCCURRENCE OF DWARF MINKE WHALES (BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA SUBSP) AROUND THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA
made only for the whales sighted in the proximity of the vessels when the specific diagnostic ... Abstract: The occurrence of dwarf minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata subsp.) around the ... Antarctic Peninsula was examined based on 406 sightings of minke whales recorded during the Chilean ... Antarctic Scientific Expeditions and other opportunistic cetacean surveys. Identification of the species was ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/P2 : Author(s): J. Acevedo, C. Olavarría, J. Plana, A. Aguayo-Lobo, A. Larrea and L.A. Pastene
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Review of the 2004 budget, draft 2005 budget and forecast budget for 2006
budget for 2004, a draft of the 2005 budget and an indicative forecast for 2006, presented in a format ... brought forward from 2003, generates a 2004 surplus of A$39 200 to be recorded as income in 2005. The ... will be needed to pay for the full Implementation of the C-VMS. There is no overall increase in the ... 2005 budget anticipated in respect of reallocating the Commission’s Headquarters. Author(s): Executive ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIII/04 : Author(s): Executive Secretary
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Criteria for the Selection of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
). The application of selection criteria can assist in evaluating candidate sites, prioritising areas ... selection criteria for protected areas, both in the context of the Antarctic Treaty System and in other ... international systems, might be applied in the identification of candidate marine sites for special protection ... and management in the Southern Ocean. Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom Title: Criteria ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/24 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Performance metrics to index the spatial coverage of mark-recapture data
measures of spatial overlap and potential bias in the development of tag-based biomass estimates are an ... measure of the potential bias in the biomass estimate calculated from non-homogenous spatial mark ... include a measure of the total spatial distribution of effort through time in research or developing ... fisheries, and a measure of the change in bias of mark-recapture estimates through time. Author(s): C ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/13 : Author(s): C. Marsh, A. Dunn and S. Mormede
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Report of the first SCAR Krill Action Group (SKAG) meeting (Cambridge, United Kingdom, 16 July 2018)
in the last few decades. Understanding of krill behaviour and the timings of krill transport across ... on krill biology in relation to the review of CM 51-07. Interaction between SKAG and Integrating ... to CCAMLR. Prof. Dr. Bettina Meyer (Germany), on behalf of the Scientific Committee, was tasked to ... in June. SCAR approved funding of 4700€ for SKAG to be spent for supporting young scientist in their ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/23 : Author(s): B. Meyer
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Long term movements and activity patterns of an Antarctic marine apex predator: the leopard seal
advance in our limited knowledge of leopard seals. We show the longest periods of tracking of leopard ... , similar to those observed in other predators in the region including the krill fishery. Analysis of ... dynamics of the region’s fisheries, shows an understanding of leopard seal ecology is vital in the ... ecosystems through local predation. Here we report on the successful use of micro geolocation logging sensor ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/P09 : Author(s): I.J. Staniland, N. Ratcliffe, P.N. Trathan and J. Forcada
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Development of a five-year work plan for the CCAMLR Scientific Committee
the first stage in the development of the five-year work plan and draws on recommendations arising ... Committee should be developed for consideration by the Scientific Committee in 2017 (SC-CAMLR-XXXV ... , paragraphs 13.8 to 13.20). It was agreed that the work should be led by the Chair of the Scientific Committee ... with input from the conveners of its working groups and that it should be made available for ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/02 : Author(s): M. Belchier (Chair of SC-CAMLR)
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Report on the status of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses at South Georgia
conducted in the mid 1980s, numbers of these two species appear to have decreased by 26% and 14 ... methods used in the 1980s, it is likely that the Bird Island figures are more indicative of the population ... .) since the previous survey in 1984. The magnitude of these population decreases is alarming, given the ... since 1997 in the rate of decline of wandering albatrosses at Bird Island, which now stands at 4.5% per ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/71 : Author(s): S. Poncet (United Kingdom),G. Robertson (Australia), R. Phillips (United Kingdom), K. Lawton (Australia), B. Phalan, J. Croxall and P. Trathan (United Kingdom)
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Modeling the growth dynamics of Antarctic krill
resulted in the transfer of individuals to the next highest size class (growth), whereas negative net ... in the current literature. The model was forced with an environmental time series of food (pelagic ... that were consistent with observations of experimentally starved individuals. the annual change in ... designed to examine the effect of the ingestion of sea-ice algae in the late winter and early spring. The ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/68 : Author(s): Lascara, C.M., Hofmann, E.E.