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Seabird by-catch update on industrial Patagonian toothfish fishery in southern Chile
determined the initiation of the NPOA to reduce seabird incidental mortality in all longline fisheries in ... Abstract: Implementation of NPOAs requires in first place an assessment of all longline fisheries ... with presumption of occurring seabird incidental mortality. Chile took this responsibility in 2001 and ... started the NPOA-S process by estimating the seabird bycatch at the Patagonian toothfish fishery in ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/13 : Author(s): J. Arata, C.A. Moreno and R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile)
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ADULT ANTARCTIC KRILL FEEDING AT ABYSSAL DEPTHS
operated vehicle Isis in the austral summer of 2006/07 have revealed the presence of adult krill (Euphausia ... depth distribution and ecology of Antarctic krill, a central organism in the Southern Ocean ecosystem ... the Southern Ocean, and a key species in the Antarctic food web. The Discovery Investigations in the ... bulk of the population of postlarval krill is typically confined to the top 150 m of the water column ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P01 : Author(s): A. Clarke and P.A. Tyler
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Beach debris survey, Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia, 2002/03
recorded in 2001/02 and the lowest levels of beach debris during summer since the first year of recording ... in 1990/91. The distribution of debris between summer and winter was similar to the previous year ... (3.6 kg) was a decrease of 1 kg since last year. There was a decrease in the proportion of nylon ... Abstract: During the thirteenth year of standardised beach surveys of man-made debris at Bird ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia, 2005/06
, nylon line was absent from Bird Island, an encouraging result after the peak of 546 pieces in 1995/96 ... found, more than in any of the previous 9 years, suggesting that the ban on their use aboard fishing ... in 2004/05. Miscellaneous debris comprised the greatest proportion of items (84% of the total ... Abstract: During the sixteenth year of standardised beach surveys of man-made debris at Bird ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/16 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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A generalized discriminant for sexing fulmarine petrels from external measurements
birds to predict the sex of unknown individuals in field studies. Geographic variation in size and shape ... , Daption capense; and Snow Petrel, Pagodroma nivea) assigned 81 to 98% of birds in the samples to the ... species shows its validity for use in other populations of any of these species. The generalized function ... often limits the predictive value of a discriminant function to the population from which it was derived ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-94/24 : Author(s): J.A. van Franeker and C.J.F. ter Braak (The Netherlands)
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Fishery selection for Patagonian toothfish in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3, asymptotic or dome shaped?
Abstract: Characterisation of fishery selection is key to reducing uncertainty in the ... waters as they age and increase in size and, in combination with the practical difficulties associated ... with age and size to arise. However this type of selection pattern is associated with the estimation of ... highly uncertain quantities of cryptic biomass. A review of the fishery and tagging data from the ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/29 : Author(s): C. Darby, V. Laptikhovsky and M. Soeffker (United Kingdom)
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The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS): an update
(SOOS), noting in particular the importance of the SOOS to the work of CCAMLR and the key role of CCAMLR ... in implementation of the SOOS, for example through the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (CEMP ... recently been established, hosted by the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Australia ... Abstract: This Background Paper reports on progress with the Southern Ocean Observing System ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/13 : Author(s): A joint submission by SCAR and SCOR
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Filling knowledge gaps east in Dronning Maud Land to inform MPA planning by CCAMLR (ECOgaps): Norwegian cruise to DML 2019
east of the 0 meridian in the MPA planning Domain 4. Focusing on the Astrid ridge, the continental ... Abstract: The aim of the ECOgaps is to improve the knowledgebase on physical conditions and biota ... shelf off of Dronning Maud Land, and the Maud rise, multidisciplinary investigations will be conducted ... in 2019 by the RV Kronprins Haakon. In this working document, the cruise being planned is outlined ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/13 : Author(s): H. Steen, A. Lowther and O.A. Bergstad
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Time series of Drake Passage Oscillation Index (DPOI) from 1952 to 2006, Antarctica
Abstract: An assessment of the environmental processes influencing variability in the recruitment ... krill recruitment and density in the Antarctic Peninsula area with an environmental factor; strength of ... and density of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba DANA) is important as variability in krill stocks ... affects the Antarctic marine ecosystem as a whole. Naganobu et al. (1999) had assessed variability in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/13 : Author(s): M. Naganobu and K. Kutsuwada (Japan)
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Net monitoring on Norwegian krill fishing vessels, recent trials, and a proposal for amendment to CM 25-03 to accommodate cabled communication between net sensors and vessel
reports. The proposed amended text of the Article 1 in CM 25-03 is therefore: “The use of net monitoring ... implemented on the FV Saga Sea because extensive trials carried out in 2017/18 with other alternatives were ... not successful. Extensive monitoring of bird interactions reflected in observer reports suggests that ... this particular rigging is compatible with the main objectives of CM 25-03, i.e. minimizing the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/18 : Author(s): O.A. Bergstad