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An underwater setting method for surface longliners, to minimise the accidental/incidental capture of seabirds
significant decline in the numbers of some species (most notably albatross Diomedea sp) in the Southern Oceans ... . In response to the sea bird problem, the New Zealand Department of Conservation funded a programme in ... are reported in this document. One with the tube opening facing forward was unsuccessful,in flushing ... bait to the setting depth, however a backward facing U tube succeeded in flushing the bait on all ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/53 : Author(s): Walshe, K.A.R., Parnes, P.
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Growth per molt of male snow crab Chionoecetes opilio from Conception and Bonavista Bays, Newfoundland
Abstract: Over 6000 male snow crabs were tagged during a 6-year period in Conception Bay ... , Newfoundland, in order to estimate the increase in size at the time of molting. Ninety-two animals were ... interpretation. First, animals in the group presumed to have molted twice were at liberty on average twice as ... predicted the size after two molts in close agreement with a regression line fitted to data on double ...
Meeting Document : WS-CRAB-93/12 : Author(s): D.M. Taylor and J.M. Hoenig (USA)
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Working Group on Statistics, Assessments and Modelling (WG-SAM)
In 2001, WG-FSA identified the difficulties that arose when new quantitative methodologies are ... WG-FSA Subgroup on Assessment Methods (WG-FSA-SAM) was established in order to provide an opportunity ... to provide time for a thorough evaluation of new assessment methods prior to their use at WG-FSA. In ... year since 2003, usually in association with the timing and location of the meeting of the Working ...
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The Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area: Current proposal and looking forward
management. Since MPA planning commenced, CCAMLR has identified the Ross Sea as a key region in a ... MPA proposed in 2012 was designed to meet an array of ecological and scientific objectives while also ... allowing for an economically viable toothfish fishery in the Ross Sea. Since 2012, Ross Sea region MPA ... reflected in the current proposal. Through this document, ASOC highlights the revisions made to the current ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/27 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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About CCAMLR
Resources (CCAMLR) was established by international convention in 1982 with the objective of conserving ... Antarctic marine life. This was in response to increasing commercial interest in Antarctic krill resources ... marine resources in the Southern Ocean. Ecosystem-based management Being responsible for the conservation ... not exclude harvesting as long as such harvesting is carried out in a sustainable manner and takes ...
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Status of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus 1758, at Bird Island, South Georgia
breeding in tussock grassland at sub-Antarctic islands. Over the last decade it has been killed in large ... numbers in temperate and sub-tropical longline fisheries. However, no data are available on the global ... the distributioin and density of occupied burrows in 1981 and 1998. In both surveys white-chinned ... petrel burrows occurred in one-quarter of the 460–47736-m2 quadrats surveyed. The total number of burrows ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/26 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S.D. Berrow, J.P. Croxall and S.D. Grant (United Kingdom)
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Examination of the gut contents of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) from the toothfish pot fishery trials around South Georgia
, (Dissostichus eleginoides), represents an important target species for fisheries not only in the study area ... around South Georgia (CCAMLR Sub-area 48.3), but also in other CCAMLR areas. To improve the knowledge on ... during the toothfish pot fishery trials undertaken in the area during the period March to May 2000. 3,640 ... empty stomachs was greatly reduced in fish caught using pots rather than longlines, increasing sample ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/25 : Author(s): G. Pilling, T. Daw, M. Purves, D. Agnew and J. Xavier (United Kingdom)
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KRILL CATCHES INDICATE THE IMPACT OF THE EL-NIŇO – SOUTHERN OSCILLATION RELATED PROCESSES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF KRILL BIOMASS BETWEEN SUBAREAS OF THE ATLANTIC SECTOR OF ANTARCTIC
fishery management issues. Krill catch data in Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3 are compared to the AMLR ... analysis suggest that the dynamics of krill biomass in fishable aggregations in Subareas 48.1 and 48.2 is ... negative anomalies of catches in the important Subarea 48.2 are seen in the year of oceanographical regime ... associated with La Niňa event in the South Pacific. The mechanisms for these phenomena associated with the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/47 : Author(s): V. Spiridonov (Russia)
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Detailed distribution of krill fishing around South Georgia
only been available to the scientific community in the form of sub-area or fine-scale(0.5 ° latitude by ... has operated they do not reveal the localised nature of the fishing operation. In particular they give ... . Over the last three winter fishing seasons (1993-1995) haul by haul statistics have been recorded in ... a seasonal pattern. In 1994 the fishery was almost totally based over a large shallow bank area on ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/64 : Author(s): Parkes, G., Everson, I., Trathan, P.N., Murphy, E.J.
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Preliminary analysis of toothfish catch, CPUE, size structure and mark-recapture data from SSRUs 486A and 486G, with comments on the sustainability of different harvest levels
in Subarea 48.6 north of 60°S (the combined SSRUs 48.6A and 48.6G). A preliminary assessment for D ... . mawsoni in Subarea 48.6 south of 60°S (the combined SSRUs 48.6B through 48.6E) is given in an Appendix. An ... to size via a simple von-Bertalanffy equation in which variance in catch-at-length for a given age is ... possible given the available information. Actual assumptions are set out in this document. CPUE data are ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/31 : Author(s): E. Thomson and M. Bergh (South Africa)