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1. Among-year variation in growth of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba based on length-frequency data

   Abstract:  Understanding the temporal variability in vital rates (e.g. growth and survivorship) of ... variation are rare because they often require expensive long-term tag-recapture programs. In marine pelagic ... Southern Ocean over a span of 19 yr to document among-year variation in krill growth during the austral ... estimates of among-year variation in krill growth. We estimate very high among-year variation in growth ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/P01 : Author(s): A.O. Shelton, D. Kinzey, C. Reiss, S. Munch, G. Watters and M. Mangel (USA)

2. Modelling the predator–prey interactions of krill, baleen whales and seals in the Antarctic ecosystem

   Abstract:  The history of human harvests of seals, whales, fish and krill in the Antarctic is ... krill surplus in the mid 20th Century is described, and the information on population and trend levels ... ) species. The model commences in 1780 (the onset of fur seal harvests) and distinguishes the Atlantic ... /Indian and Pacific sectors in view of the much larger past harvests in former. A reference case and five ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/34 : Author(s): M. Mori and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)

3. PENGUIN RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

   Abstract:  Penguins are adapted to live in extreme environments, but they can be highly sensitive ... , oceanography and critical habitats. For example, in the southwest Atlantic, the distributional range of the ice ... and chinstrap penguins have expanded their range southward. In the Southern Ocean, the El Niño ... changes in the marine ecosystem, ultimately affecting penguins. The interaction between these modes is ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P09 : Author(s): J. Forcada and P.N. Trathan

4. LENGTH AND AGE AT SPAWNING OF ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH DISSOSTICHUS MAWSONI IN THE ROSS SEA

   male Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni from fish sampled in the Ross Sea spanning the 2000-2009 ... spawn in a given year and is therefore appropriate to evaluate spawning stock biomass relative to stock ... vitellogenic phase over at least a 6–12 month period, resulting in a developed batch of oocytes accumulating at ... ) by length. Evidence of skip spawning by females results in a right-shifted ogive, increasing the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/37 : Author(s): S.J. Parker and P.J. Grimes (New Zealand)

5. Relationship between distribution of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and environmental index MTEM-200 in the Antarctic Ocean throughout the year

   subject since the British Discovery Reports. However, there was no remarkable achievement in particular ... Database. We here focus mean-field (climatologic analysis) in all season. First, we have examined fishing ... occurred in water shallower than 200 m. Furthermore, horizontal distribution of krill fishing points ... concentrated in three waters in the east Antarctic Ocean, the Scotia Sea, and north of South Georgia Island ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/32 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, T. Kitamura and K. Hasunuma (Japan)

6. Diet and trophic niche of Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

   stomach contents of specimens collected in the Ross Sea (71°–77°S, 165°E–180°) in January–March 2008 ... of prey in stomachs, fish (silverfish and lanternfish) and krill dominated diet overall (48% and 22 ... by silverfish occurred mainly in the extreme south-west of the region and near the continental slope ... . By weight, krill identified to species level in silverfish stomachs were predominantly Euphausia ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/54 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, J. Forman, S.J. Bury, J. Brown, P. Horn and R.L. O’Driscoll (New Zealand)

7. Physical and behavioural influences on larval fish retention: contrasting patterns in two Antarctic fishes

   Abstract:  Waters around South Georgia are amongst the most productive in the Southern Ocean, and ... support internationally important fisheries. However, there is significant inter-annual variability in ... retention of the planktonic stages (eggs and larvae) of marine fish can play a key role in the maintenance ... grounds may contribute to the failure of the N. rossii population to recover from its collapse in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/P10 : Author(s): E.F. Young, J. Rock, M.P. Meredith, M. Belchier, E.J. Murphy and G.R. Carvalho

8. Summer distribution, abundance and structure of krill populations (Euphausia superba and Euphausia crystallorophias) sampled by plankton net in the western Ross Sea (January–February 2000)

   of krill in the western Ross Sea (Antarctica). A midwater sampler-trawl (Hamburg Plankton Net) was ... double oblique tow. Mean relative biomass of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba, in the area north of ... 1000m3. The high abundance of Euphausia superba (1510 g/1000m3) found in a single haul on the Mawson Bank ... Area (73°S 173°E) was remarkable. Ice krill Euphausia crystallorophias replaced the Antarctic krill in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/38 : Author(s): M. Azzali, A. Sala and G. Brancato (Italy)

9. Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals in marine debris at Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Islets, Livingston Island, Antarctica: 1988–1997

   in marine debris (neck collars) at SSSI N°32 and CEMP site 'Cape Shirreff and San Telmo islets ... results indicate that 45% of the entanglement material found in a total of 20 individuals (nine subadult ... packing bands, in contrast to the remaining percentage (55%) which corresponded to discarded fishing ... versus total population in the area per season is considered to be low, and never surpass percentages of ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVI/BG/33 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile

10. Results of acoustic assessment of krill biomass in Subarea 48.2 during summer 1996

    Abstract:  In the period from 24 February to 7 March 1996 in the cruise of RV "Atlantida" ... ; acoustic assessment of krill biomass and distribution was carried out in study area restricted with 59° 10 ... sq.mi1es was located in the zone of two circulation systems of climatic scale interaction: Antarctic ... Circumpolar Current and Weddell Sea water circulation. Researches in the study area included a broad spectrum ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/36 : Author(s): Sunkovich, V.I., Kasatkina, S.M., Abramov, V.M., Polischuk, M.I., Sushin, V.A., Shnar, V.N.

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