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ECOLOGICAL REPERCUSSIONS OF HISTORICAL FISH EXTRACTION FROM THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
Abstract: A major mid-1980s shift in ecological structure of significant portions of the Southern ... -selected life-history patterns, and before exploitation presumably fluctuated in accordance with infrequent ... oscillated between two states, but has remained in its “positive mode” since the time of the fish extraction ... low. Correlations between predator populations and fish biomass in predator foraging areas indicate ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P07 : Author(s): D. Ainley and L. Blight
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A history of the exploitation of the Ross Sea, Antarctica
be the least affected stretch of ocean on Earth, although historical effects were not included in the ... by New Zealand to feed sled dogs in the 1950-80s caused the McMurdo Sound population to permanently ... population has since recovered. Some minke whales are now taken in “scientific whaling”, twice more from the ... occurred in slope waters, and therefore their demise from whaling does not apply to the Ross Sea. No ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P03 : Author(s): D.G. Ainley
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At-sea distribution and diet of an endangered top predator: links of white-chinned petrels with commercial longline fisheries
, during breeding period in 2006 and 2008. At-sea foraging distribution of white-chinned petrels was mainly ... confined in Antarctic waters. Commercial longline fisheries targeting toothfish were operating in both ... co-occurrence (19% of birds in the vicinity of vessels). This result was confirmed by the relatively ... low occurrence of fishery-related items (4 to 22%) in chick food samples. However given the large size ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/P01 : Author(s): K. Delord, C. Cotté, C. Péron, C. Marteau, P. Pruvost, N. Gasco, G. Duhamel, Y. Cherel and H. Weimerskirch
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The reliability of VHF telemetry data for measuring attendance patterns of marine predators: a comparison with Time Depth Recorder data
patterns of otariid seals. These data have been used in a wide variety of ways, from characterizing the ... reproductive and foraging ecology of these species to inferring ecosystem changes based on variation in ... . Additionally, there were significant differences in the number and duration of attendance bouts between the two ... data in a state-space framework elicited mean attendance durations that were indistinguishable from TDR ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/P05 : Author(s): A.D. Lowther, H. Ahonen, G. Hofmeyr, W.C. Oosthuizen, P.J. Nico De Bruyn, C. Lydersen and K. Kovacs
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Distribution and ecology of Chaenocephalus aceratus (Channichthyidae) around South Georgia and Shag Rocks (Southern Ocean).
demersal fish living on the South Georgia shelf where it is caught in low numbers as by-catch in the ... that growth was fast in the first five years with males and females attaining lengths at first spawning ... in diet from Euphausia superba and mysids to benthic fish and decapods observed to begin at 250 mm TL ... . In larger fish (> 500 mm TL) the diet was dominated by fish. C. aceratus diet is sufficiently ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/P5 : Author(s): W.D.K Reid, S. Clarke, M.A. Collins and M. Belchier. (Polar Biol., 30 (12): 1523–1533 (2007))
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Histopathology of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) bearing black spots
Abstract: In Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, sampled by a Japanese scientific observer ... onboard a krill fishing vessel in the winter of 2003 and 2006 in the South Georgia region, the Antarctic ... strains were also confirmed by in situ hybridization for 16S rRNA. The melanized nodules were almost ... secondary. The development of the tumor-like cell mass in the gonad may be the primary condition, although ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/29 : Author(s): S. Miwa, T. Kamaishi, T. Matsuyama, T. Hayashi and M. Naganobu (Japan)
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Modelling growth of Antarctic krill: growth trends with sex, length, season, and region
seasonal trend for each region. Smaller krill exhibited higher growth rates and a progressive decrease in ... growth was December in Indian sector, whereas in the Scotia Sea sector it appeared to be a few months ... earlier than this. Significantly lower growth rates were exhibited by females in January and February ... relative to males. Seasonal specific growth rates estimated in this study were compared to previous studies ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/29 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, S. Candy, R. King (Australia), M. Naganobu (Japan) and S. Nicol (Australia)
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Reconciling theoretical versus empirical target strengths of krill; effects of phase variability on the distorted wave Born approximation
, the authors noted that the differences were not entirely due to noise. In this study, the accuracy of ... the DWBA model is further explored. Results indicate that phase variability in the scatter from ... elements of a discretized bent cylinder (krill model) causes a dramatic flattening in the side-lobe regions ... krill TS measurements in McGehee et al. (1998). Thus, by accounting for phase-variability in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/50 : Author(s): D.A. Demer and S.G. Conti (USA)
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A proposal to report marine casualties to CCAMLR
flag vessels operating in the Convention Area) to require an investigation in the event of a very ... serious marine casualty¹ involving a fishing vessel². Such investigation will result in the preparation of ... Convention on the Law of the Sea with respect to fishing vessels operating under CCAMLR’s jurisdiction in the ... ” would mean accidents or events caused by or involving a vessel that result in total loss of the ship ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/24 : Author(s): Delegations of the USA and New Zealand
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BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY AND INCIDENCE OF ENTANGLEMENT OF ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA AT SIGNY ISLAND, SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS 2007/2008
). There was a decrease in the number of plastic packaging bands with only two found in the current season ... (both of which had been cut open), marking a break in the otherwise continued rise in packaging bands ... the longevity of plastics and other materials with a high resistance to degradation in the marine ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/26 : Author(s): M.J. Dunn and C.M. Waluda (UK)