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FISHING INDUSTRY POLLUTION OBSERVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED MARINE MAMMAL ENTANGLEMENT RECORDS AT SOUTH GEORGIA, SUMMER 1996/97
-26 December 1996. The photographs (originals in colour) illustrate the diversity of debris, most ... Abstract: From various locations on or near the mainland of South Georgia, between November 1996 ... . Of the fur seals five (42%) were female (three adult, two juvenile) and seven (58%) were male (one ... . Marine debris was collected from a 1 km stretch of beach on the south coast of South Georgia between 24 ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVI/BG/26 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Management plan for Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) No. 1
; • allow visits for management purposes in support of the aims of the management plan. Author(s ... Abstract: Management at Cape Royds aims to: • avoid degradation of, or substantial risk to, the ... values of the Area by preventing unnecessary human disturbance to the Area; • allow scientific research ... on the ecosystem, and in particular on the avifauna in the Area, while ensuring protection from over ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/59 : Author(s): Secretariat
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A study on calibration for commercial echosounder using bottom backscattering strength in Antarctic
fishing vessel to use it in estimating biomass of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). The method of ... calibration was to analyze the difference between the bottom backscattering strength of the commercial ... , was examined to verify the calibration result. The analysis result confirmed the possibility of ... calibration by bottom backscattering strength, since the proportion of krill swarm signals within 2 dB < S ...
Meeting Document : SG-ASAM-17/P01 : Author(s): S.-G. Choi, H. Lee, K. Lee and J. Lee
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Zooplankton studies during international krill synoptic survey in CCAMLR Subarea 48.1 in 2019 onboard Ukrainian fishing vessel More Sodruzhestva
Abstract: As a part of the international krill synoptic survey, the National Antarctic Scientific ... studies in the Bransfield Strait (CCAMLR subarea 48.1) during “More Sodruzhestva” voyage from 13 to 18 th ... of November 2018. The stratified samples were done at the same stations as for krill hydroacoustic ... survey in order to map vertical distribution, abundance and species composition of zooplankton, mostly ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/64 : Author(s): L. Samchyshyna, E. Dykyi and G. Milinevsky
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Krill fishery report: 2013 update
, Norway and Ukraine have fished for krill in Area 48. The total catch reported to the end of May 2013 was ... and 48.4 in 2013/14. The total notified, expected level of krill catches is 545000 t. There were no ... Abstract: In 2011/12, 12 vessels from five Members fished for krill in Area 48 and the total ... catch of krill was 161085 t (Subarea 48.1: 75630 t; Subarea 48.2: 29040 t; Subarea 48.3: 56415 t). The ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/37 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Secretariat
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The relationship between sea-ice cover and Adélie penguin reproductive performance at Béchervaise Island
population growth in response to a reduction in the frequency of heavy sea-ice years. However, it is ... the form of sea-ice present, the season in which it is present and the processes that such sea-ice ... penguin populations through a variety of processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales. The ... Smith et al. (1999) conceptual model of Adélie penguin population growth incorporates the relationship ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/21 : Author(s): L. Emmerson and C. Southwell (Australia)
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The Antarctic toothfish: how common a prey for Weddell seals?
. In addition to past reports of isolated toothfish captures, the frequency of these observations and ... Weddell seals, and that the recent development of a toothfish fishery in the Ross Sea may have broader ... the quantity of toothfish captured lead us to suggest that this species is a significant prey item for ... impacts than expected. This is especially important in the McMurdo Sound region as toothfish are probably ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/P4 : Author(s): P.J. Ponganis and T.K. Stockard (USA)
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Distributions and predator-prey interactions of macaroni penguins, Antarctic fur seals, and Antarctic krill near Bird Island, South Georgia
between the distributions of predators and their prey with respect to the abundance of krill in the water ... macaroni penguins were concentrating their foraging for krill in the vicinity of the shelf-break. Author(s ... Abstract: We studied the distributions, abundances and interactions of macaroni penguins Eudyptes ... transects radiating from the breeding colonies of the vertebrate predators. We examined the relationships ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/12 : Author(s): G.L. Hunt, Jr (USA), D. Heinemann (USA) and I. Everson (United Kingdom)
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Marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at sub Antarctic Marion Island – 1998/99
Abstract: Most (52%) of the 306 debris items found in association with seabirds at Marion Island ... wandering albatross study colonies showed that there had been a slight decrease in the accumulation rate of ... much higher than the 1996/97 season. This is consistent with a decrease in the number of unsanctioned ... fishing vessels present in the close vicinity of the island. Standardized searches of greyheaded mollymawk ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVIII/BG/14 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa
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Performance of an acoustic sonde design
is widely recognized. At a U.S. GLOBEC workshop in 1991, one of the considered problems was measuring ... Abstract: The potential of multi-frequency acoustic technology for quantifying fish and plankton ... macrozooplankton and micronekton. It was concluded that in order to survey animals in the size range 0.5-5 cm, it ... would be expedient to use at least three and perhaps as many as 8-10 frequencies in the range 38-420 kHz ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/09 : Author(s): Foote, K.G.