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Dynamics of Antarctic krill in the Bransfield Strait during austral summer and autumn investigated using acoustic data from a fishing vessel
Abstract: The Antarctic krill fisheries have evolved to operate in ever more concentrated ... geographical areas of predictable high krill densities, and knowledge about trends and variability in krill ... fishing vessels might help provide such insight. In the present work, the dynamics of krill with regards ... studied using acoustic data from the Chinese krill fishing vessel ‘Fu Rong Hai’ operating in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/40 : Author(s): X. Wang, G. Skaret, O.R. Godø and X. Zhao
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Stable isotope analysis of tissue samples to investigate trophic linkages of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross and Amundsen Sea regions
Abstract: Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen (δ 15 N and δ 13 C) in Antarctic toothfish ... (Dissostichus mawsoni) muscle were measured to study the trophic connections of Antarctic toothfish in the Ross ... lipid in muscle on δ 13 C in a way that did not compromise the accuracy of δ 15 N measurements. We found ... considerable variability in δ 15 N and δ 13 C of toothfish that were not explained by fish length, sex ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/50 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, S.J Bury, J.C.S. Brown, J. Forman and A. Kilimnik (New Zealand)
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Biomass of Antarctic krill around South Shetland using 2-dB difference method in April 2016
Abstract: Antarctic Krill plays an important role in Antarctic ecosystems as the medium that ... connects phytoplankton to penguins, seals, and whales. It is also in the limelight as an important protein ... it is surrounded by Darke Passage in North, Weddle Sea in East, and Bransfield Strait in South ... regulation that limits Krill catch amount using fishing survey and acoustic assessment data in order to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/60 : Author(s): Delegation of the Republic of Korea
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Research plan for the 2017/18 toothfish fishery in Division 58.4.4b by Japan and France
Abstract: Japan and France made the next season’s (2017/18) research plan in research blocks ... 58.4.4b_1 and 58.4.4b_2 using the latest CCAMLR C2 and Observer data. The estimated median stock size in ... block 58.4.4b_1 and 58.4.4b_2 was 855.39 and 1120.40, tonnes respectively, in Chapman method considering ... tags released in the last three years as effective for the biomass estimation. The estimated median ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-17/02 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of Japan and France
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INDICATIVE ESTIMATES OF BIOMASS AND YIELD OF WHITSON’S GRENADIER (M. WHITSONI) ON THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE OF THE ROSS SEA IN SUBAREAS 88.1 AND 88.2
Abstract: Catch limits currently in place for macrourids in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 are defined as ... being equal to 16% of the catch limit of Dissostichusspp. in these subareas. The 16% was based on the ... ratio of the by-catch limit for macrourids to the catch limit for Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.5.2 ... in 2002/03 (CCAMLR-XXI, para 11.53). The bycatch limit for macrourids in Division 58.5.2 had in turn ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/32 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, D. Fu and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Revised research plan for the 2013/14 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.1
observer data. The stock size estimates for research blocks were revised following advice in the last WG ... -SAM meeting. We tentatively recalculated a sample size of Dissostichus spp in each block in such a way ... that the numbers of tag recoveries in the 2016 season shows an approximately 0.3 of coefficient ... sizes turned out to be larger in many blocks and smaller in a few blocks over the data poor-fisheries ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/38 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Proposal for a winter longline survey of Antarctic toothfish in the northern region of Subareas 88.1 and 88.2
up in the spring, may provide access to a productive pagophilic ecosystem for feeding as well as a ... patterns may be influenced by changes in sea ice or circulation patterns that affect observed recruitment ... productivity of the stock assumed in the stock assessment. 3) Biological characteristics of the northern ... . Evidence to date found no change in these characteristics in June, suggesting sampling later in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/40 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Penguin foraging behavior in relation to the distribution of prey
of their primary prey, krill (Euphausia superba) in the vicinity of Seal Island, South Shetland ... migration pattern, being dispersed in the upper portion of the water column at night and more concentrated ... midnight, with a reduction in effort around dawn and dusk (local apparent time). The mean and maximum depth ... dives did not exceed the maximum depth distribution of krill. These patterns in diving behavior may ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/47 : Author(s): D.A. Croll, R.P. Hewitt, D.A. Demer and J.K. Jansen (USA)
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Long term variability in the diet and reproductive performance of penguins at Bird Island, South Georgia
Abstract: Inter-annual variability in diet during crèche (December to February) over 22 years ... present in 89 % of samples and were the main prey (> 50 % by mass) in 10 years of the study. Antarctic ... krill Euphausia superba were present in 85 % of all diet samples. Fish were present in 79 % of samples ... and were the main prey in 12 years, with Champsocephalus gunnari and Lepidonotothen larseni the most ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/P02 : Author(s): C.M. Waluda, S.L. Hill, H.J. Peat and P.N. Trathan
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An updated descriptive analysis of the toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) tagging program in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 for 2006/07
Abstract: Descriptive analyses of the toothfish tagging programme carried out in Subareas 88.1 ... vessels and preliminary data for other vessels that fished in 2007. Release and recapture data that ... described in this paper for the first time. Overall, a reported total of 12 177 Antarctic toothfish have ... . The number of tags recaptured in the Ross Sea in 2007 by New Zealand vessels was the highest annual ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-07/5 : Author(s): A. Dunn, S.M. Hanchet and S.L. Ballara (New Zealand)