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Independent reviews of CCAMLR stock assessments – a discussion paper
on this topic and supporting the Scientific Committee in their development of a procedure ... Abstract: In 2013 the Commission endorsed the Scientific Committee’s recommendation to develop a ... the Commission could complement the efforts of the Scientific Committee by noting the need for action ... . Independent reviews, in addition to potentially benefitting the CCAMLR stock assessment process, could serve ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/BG/20 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA
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Seabird mortality and the Falkland Islands trawling fleet
of these birds become impaled on a splice in the cable, which was situated on average around 50-100m ... , trawling and hauling operations for 157 days onboard finfish trawlers in the Falkland Islands in 2002/03 ... recorded on the Patagonian Shelf, north of the Islands. Birds were killed after being dragged underwater by ... the warp cable, while feeding on factory discharge at the stern of the vessel. An unknown proportion ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/91 : Author(s): B.J. Sullivan, T.A. Reid, L. Bugoni and A.D. Black (United Kingdom)
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Scotia Sea Pygoscelid Penguin Tracking and Habitat Analysis Workshop
environmental variables. Consequently, in May 2015, an expert meeting was convened to consider the utility of ... considered that such models would be of critical value in the development of feedback management approaches ... for the krill fishery as well as in marine spatial planning and the identification of candidate marine ... protected areas. The meeting brought together both penguin ecologists and experts in the analysis of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/09 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom), J.T. Hinke (USA) and B. Lascelles (BirdLife International)
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REVIEW OF CCAMLR TRANSLATION REQUIREMENTS
the 2001–2008 period. Note is taken of the growing translation demand in terms of the number of pages ... requiring translation annually and the increase in translation complexity. Trends in Secretariat translation ... by Members in considering how translation service delivery and standing may be sustained into the ... Papers and the Secretariat’s Translation Capacity. Focus is given to prevailing circumstances in 2008 as ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVIII/10 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Executive Secretary
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Beached birds: a guide used by north pacific groundfish observers to identify seabirds incidentally caught in fisheries
Abstract: In the fall of 2002, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) purchased 300 ... vessels in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. This new guide replaces a dichotomous key on looseleaf paper ... of fishery observers to accurately identify seabirds as they come up in the sampled fishing gear ... collection at the NMFS North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program. A copy of Beached Birds is available in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/24 : Author(s): T. Hass and S. Davis (USA)
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A proposal to subdivide CCAMLR Statistical Division 58.4.1 using environmental data
basis of environmental data. Krill is more abundant in the western subdivision and its biomass is more ... latitudinally extensive in this area. This observed pattern appears to be historically stable. Because of the ... 1996 based on the results of an acoustic survey (BROKE) of the southernmost 873,000 km2 of this area ... (CCAMLR 1996). Detailed subsequent analysis of the results of this survey have indicated that Division ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/30 : Author(s): S. Nicol and T. Pauly (Australia)
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Importance of myctophid fish distributions for formation of foraging areas of chinstrap penguins and Antarctic fur seals at Seal Island
occurred on the shelf north of Seal Island. However, all predators except diurnal foraging penguins went ... northward beyond the shelf, and foraged in offshore region during Leg I and on slope during Leg II. The ... diurnal foraging penguins alone fed on the shelf. The following advantages are considered for feeding in ... day so that only shallow diving was required to catch krill even in the day time; (2) krill tend to be ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/87 : Author(s): Bengtson, J.L., Kawaguchi, S., Jansen, J.K., Takao, T., Meyer, W.R., Baba, N., Hiruki, L.M., Boveng, P., Cameron, M.F., Ogishima, T., Ichii, T., Naganobu, M.
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Beach debris survey - Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 1994/95
proportion in 1993/94). Of the 67% of debris occurring during the winter, 43 % occurred during July. Nylon ... line, comprising 80% of debris, was mainly identical to material used in the long-line fishery, as ... Abstract: The fifth year of survey of beach debris at Main Bay, Bird Island reported a 3-fold ... ). Debris accumulated throughout the summer accounted for 33% of the total (three times the summer ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XV/BG/04 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 2000/01
of 408 items recorded in 1999/00 and the lowest levels of summer beach debris (147 items) since the ... 1994/95 season. The difference between the number of items collected in the summer and winter months is ... Abstract: During the eleventh year of standardised beach surveys of man-made debris at Bird ... Island, South Georgia, a total of 290 items were collected. This represents a 33.3% decrease on the total ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/03 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Aggregation patterns of pelagic predators and their principal prey, Antarctic krill, near South Georgia
is an explicit consideration of the separation in space between swarms of krill and aggregations of ... Abstract: 1. We examine the spatial distributions of pelagic seabirds and. fur seals near South ... Georgia, and asked to what extent the distributions of these predators were influenced by the spatial ... survey of the waters surrounding Bird Island, South. Georgia. Predator abundance was estimated visually ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/13 : Author(s): R.R. Veit (USA), E.D. Silverman (USA) and I. Everson (United Kingdom)