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Approaches to monitoring and assessing the abundance of rattails (Macrourus spp.) and skates in the Ross Sea
and assessing rattails and skates, which are major bycatch species in the exploratory fishery for ... toothfish in the Ross Sea. We review standardised CPUE analysis, quantitative research longline surveys ... towards obtaining abundance estimates for rattails and skates in the Ross Sea. The major advantage of this ... successful trawl survey. Simulations have indicated that only 35–40 trawls would be required in the depth ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/22 : Author(s): R.L. O’Driscoll, S.M. Hanchet and B.A. Wood (New Zealand)
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Notes on Champsocephalus gunnari biology, availability, diet and spatial distribution in the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands (Subareas 48.1 and 48.2)
Abstract: Stocks of the mackerel icefish Champsocephalus gunnari in the Southern Scotia arc ... characteristics than stocks in the Northern Scotia Arc. The history of commercial C. gunnari exploitation in the ... Southern Scotia Arc was short lived and intense, and led to the collapse of the stocks. Stocks in this ... Livingston Island. The dietary composition of C. gunnari appears to be more diverse in the South Orkney ...
Meeting Document : WAMI-01/10 Rev. 1 : Author(s): C.D. Jones and J. Emery (USA)
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On dispersion of different pelagic organisms, forming Antarctic backscattering in South Sandwich subarea during January–February 2000
Abstract: In the paper these have been discussed the results of acoustic estimation of ... echosounder in 48.4 Subarea. It has been shown that myctophid fish species are dominated in nectonic fraction ... fishes prevail in northern proving ground within the Antarctic Curcumpolar Current waters; zooplankton is ... distributed in the Weddell Sea waters. Though krill and zooplankton major biomasses are concentrated in upper ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/61 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina and A.P. Malyshko (Russia)
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DEVELOPING OPTIONS TO BUILD CAPACITY IN SCIENCE TO SUPPORT SC-CAMLR
Abstract: In 2008, the CCAMLR Performance Review recommended that capacity in delivering ... scientific advice from the Scientific Committee (SC‐CAMLR) needed to be improved through (i) an increase in ... these issues by the SC‐CAMLR in recent years. Given the complexity of the issues, it is proposed that ... of an ad hoc correspondence group to “Develop options to build SC‐CAMLR capacity in science to ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/12 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia, the United Kingdom and N
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Two decades of variability in krill predators at Bird Island, South Georgia and their potential as ecosystem indicators
Abstract: The breeding performance of seabirds and seals at Bird Island, South Georgia, in the ... variability in variables for four species to evaluate their potential as ecosystem indicators. These variables ... survival and mass). Krill in the diet was correlated across the three bird species (gentoo, Pygoscelis ... penguins. Offspring survival and hence PRP were largely independent of krill in the diet for macaroni ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/16 : Author(s): S.L. Hill, C.M. Waluda, H.J. Peat and S. Fielding (United Kingdom)
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Progress report on the research longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 being jointly undertaken by Japan and South Africa: 2012/13
Abstract: The multi-year research plan that was adopted for the exploratory longline fishery in ... Statistical Subarea 48.6 and formulated in CM 41-04 (2012) is briefly summarised and progress made by Japan ... and South Africa during the first 6 months is presented. Two vessels participated in the fishery and ... so far they have concentrated their sampling effort in the southern section (south of 60˚S), where ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/05 : Author(s): R. Leslie (South Africa), K. Taki, T. Ichii (Japan) and S. Somhlaba (South Africa)
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The identification of scientific reference areas in the wider context of MPA planning – report of the CCAMLR scholarship recipient
Abstract: Domain 1 faces changes to the climate and changes in the operation of the fishery, in ... which the recent D1MPA preliminary proposal is of particular importance. In this context, the ... and have significant benefits in understanding change. Existing monitoring programmes and study sites ... in Domain 1, including integrating programmes such as SOOS, are a strong foundation on which to build ...
Meeting Document : WS-SM-18/17 : Author(s): A. Capurro, M.M. Santos, R. Cavanagh and S. Grant
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Estimates of krill biomass with commercial significance in small-scale management units applying geostatistics techniques
and SGW which are located in ecologically crucial areas affecting land-based predators around South ... Russian survey 2002 were used. Processing of the acoustic survey data in 2000-2002 was made applying ... and its fishable part in each SSMU. The relationship between the biomass available to fishery and the ... total biomass may vary by SSMUs, e.g. in SGE this relationship based on the two surveys data constituted ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/36 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina and P.S. Gasyukov (Russia)
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Size at maturity and histological procedures explored to determine spawning activity of female Dissostichus mawsoni from samples collected from the Ross Sea in January 2004, December 2004 and January 2005
the 2003/04 and 2004/05 commercial fishing seasons in the Ross Sea to improve estimates of size of ... development visible in histological sections of the 2003/04 samples. Using this methodology, it is ... size at maturity. The calculated Lm50 of 113.0 cm was very close to the value of 115.2 cm estimated in ... spawning activity that may also be useful in ascertaining the maturity ogive of D. mawsoni in the previous ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/63 : Author(s): M.E. Livingston and P. Grimes (New Zealand)
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Preliminary assessment of mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, on the Heard Island Plateau (Division 58.5.2) based on a survey in April–May 2003
approximately 20% of the 2002 estimate. This decline in abundance is consistent with the passage of the strong ... 1997 cohort through the population and relatively weak recruitment in 1999 and 2000. The 1+ fish ... evident in the survey were not fully sampled and as such are not included in the assessment. Estimates of ... in recruitment, natural mortality and growth of these fish, combined with the need to maintain a ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/32 : Author(s): A.J. Constable, C.R. Davies, R. Williams and T. Lamb (Australia)