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A proposal for compiling information, assessments and science that underpin established CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas and provide the basis for ongoing management, science and review: an MPA Report
Abstract: The General Framework for the Establishment of CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas in ... advice in a readily accessible document, which can then form the basis for review, refinement and ... management of the MPAs. This document will also need a name that is easily referred to in the common language ... , to serve this purpose in the same way that Fishery Reports have been developed by the Scientific ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/49 : Author(s): A. Constable, M. Guest, D. Welsford (Australia), P. Koubbi (France) and L. Weragoda (Australia)
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The Ross Sea cephalopod community: insights from stable isotope analysis
identified as having relatively high importance in the food-web of the Ross Sea. However, information on the ... nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon (δ 13 C) were determined in muscle and beak tissue from a range of cephalopod ... isotopic comparisons were made at the level of genus to accommodate the uncertainty in octopod ... of either movement northwards out of the Ross Sea or of coupling with the benthic system. In contrast ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/55 : Author(s): D.R. Thompson, M.H. Pinkerton, D.W. Stevens (New Zealand), Y. Cherel (France), S.J. Bury (New Zealand)
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Scientific contribution to the 2016 review of Conservation Measure 51-07: Part 1 – rationale, method and data for a risk assessment framework for distributing the krill trigger level
Abstract: At its annual meeting in 2016, WG-EMM recalled its obligation to review and advise on ... discussions on this subject in paragraphs 2.201 to 2.244 of its WG report. WG-EMM recommended that work be ... subdividing the trigger level in CM 51-07 aims to minimise the risk to predator populations, in particular ... distribution of catches across the region. It can be used to compare alternative fishing patterns in order to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/47 Rev. 1 : Author(s): A. Constable (on behalf of the e-group on CM 51-07 WG-EMM review)
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CCAMLR ecosystem monitoring and management: future work
Abstract: Harvesting of marine living resources in the Southern Ocean is managed by the ... in the conservation objectives. In the late 1980s, the precautionary approach of CCAMLR was ... developed, incorporating principles of how to use scientific evidence in the decision making process. Even ... ), it takes account of the needs of predators in the assessment of catch limits. The success of this ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/P05 : Author(s): A.J. Constable
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Infectious diseases of Antarctic penguins: current status and future threats
tourists in the future. Three main areas are likely to be impacted by this increase in use and by ... occurred. The majority of these events have occurred since the year 2000 in regions that will likely be ... valuable as indicators of the status of marine ecosystem health and are an indicator-species used in the ... on these birds. Long-term disease studies would therefore be useful as an adjunct to aid in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/53 : Author(s): W.W. Grimaldi, P.J. Seddon, P.O.B. Lyver, S. Nakagawa and D.M. Tompkins (New Zealand)
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Estimating fishing gear selectivity for Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) caught by trawlers on the Heard Island plateau region (Division 58.5.2) using trawl and longline length frequency data and forward-calculated continuation ratios
selectivity and a plateau section in between for the length range where fish are assumed fully selected. Using ... . In the first stage I estimate a parameter for each 40 mm wide length bin from the fit of a binomial ... generalised linear mixed model (GLMM) to the number of fish in the bin using a logit link function and ... binomial sample size defined as the number of fish in that bin or greater. I combine the data for length ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/65 : Author(s): S.G. Candy (Australia)
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Population dynamics of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses Diomedea melanophrys and D. chrysostoma at Campbell Island, New Zealand, 1942–96
-browed Albatross numbers went into a steep decline in the 1970s and, since at least 1984, have been ... in numbers of the Grey-headed Albatross has continued into the 1990s, averaging annually between 3.0 ... are accidentally killed in the Japanese long-line fishery for tuna Thunnus sp. In the Australasian ... region. The steep decline of Black-browed Albatross numbers in the 1970s was concomitant with the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/58 : Author(s): S.M. Waugh (New Zealand), H. Weimerskirch (France), P.J. Moore and P.M. Sagar (New Zealand)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) by man made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia, during the 2005 winter and 2005/06 breeding season
reported here. Two entanglements were observed in the winter, a decrease of 60% from the previous year, and ... the lowest number seen since records began in 1990. One of these involved a male pup entangled in ... occurred to an adult female entangled in a plastic packing band causing slight constriction to the ... individual involved. In contrast there was double the number of observed entanglements during summer of 2005 ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Development of best practices for the collection of longline data to facilitate research and analysis to reduce by-catch: report of a workshop held at the International Fisheries Observer Conference
, sea turtles, and seabirds in longline fisheries, a workshop was organized to develop “best practices ... ” in observer data collections. The workshop was held in conjunction with the International Fisheries ... Observer Conference, November 8-11, 2004, in Sydney, Australia. The objectives of the workshop were to ... observer data collection in longline fisheries that would facilitate research and analysis to reduce ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/45 : Author(s): K.S. Dietrich, K.S. Rivera, V. Cornish and T. Conant (USA)
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Krill of the Ross Sea: distribution, abundance and demography of Euphausia superba and Euphausia crystallorophias during the Italian Antarctic expedition (January–February 2000)
of krill in the western Ross Sea (Antarctica). A midwater sampler-trawl (Hamburg Plankton Net) was ... , in the area north of Continental Shelf, was 9.3 g/1000m3 of filtered water with a mean density of ... 10.9 individuals per 1000m3. Ice krill Euphausia crystallorophias replaced the Antarctic krill in ... dominance in the High Antarctic Zone (south of 74°), with a mean relative biomass of 3.0 g/1000m3 and mean ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/32 Text : Author(s): A. Sala, M. Azzali and A. Russo (Italy)