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Seasonal and interannual variation in foraging range and habitat of macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus at South Georgia
Abstract: In marine ecosystems, characterisation of the foraging areas and habitats of predators ... is a key factor in interpreting their ecological role. We studied the foraging areas of the macaroni ... 2001 using satellite tracking. We investigated differences in foraging ranges and characteristics ... (male average = 572 km; female average = 376 km) in a north-westerly direction towards the Maurice Ewing ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/21 Text : Author(s): K.E. Barlow and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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Seasonal and interannual variation in foraging range and habitat of macaroni penguins at South Georgia
Abstract: In marine ecosystems, characterisation of the foraging areas and habitats of predators ... is a key factor in interpreting their ecological role. We studied the foraging areas of macaroni ... tracking. We investigated differences in foraging ranges and characteristics between different stages of ... ; female average = 376 km) in a north-westerly direction towards the Maurice Ewing bank; some individuals ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/19 : Author(s): K.E. Barlow and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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Factors influencing Antarctic krill distribution in the South Shetlands
Abstract: The influences of biological and physical factors in the environment upon krill ... (Euphausia superba) distribution were studies in the area north of South Shetland Islands during 1990/91 ... austral summer. Krill showed a distinct offshore-inshore heterogeneities in abundance and maturity stage ... in mid-summer the abundance was low in the oceanic zone (8.5 g/m2), while higher in the slope frontal ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/38 : Author(s): T. Ichii, H. Ishii and M. Naganobu (Japan)
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Revised research plan for the 2015/16 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6
began in 2013 in data-poor fisheries. In the present report, the next three-season (2016-18) research ... plan in Subarea 48.6 was revised using the updated CCAMLR C2 and Observer data. The stock sizes for ... Dissostichus mawsoni in block 48.6_2. However, the estimates using the Petersen estimator were two-three times ... larger than those using the CPUE method in the block 48.6_3 and 48.6_4. Predicted numbers of tag ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/16 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Background information to support development of a feedback management strategy for the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1
information needed to support development of a feedback management strategy for the krill fishery in Subarea ... 48.1. In this compilation, we provide support for combining SSMUs into groups of SSMUS (gSSMUs) to form ... Subarea 48.1 will both facilitate and expedite the allocation of a catch limit in the subarea without ... review the logic for these gSSMUs and then use the gSSMU concept in many of the vignettes that follow. In ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/45 : Author(s): Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center and NOAA Fisheries
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CHINSTRAP PENGUINS: MISUNDERSTOOD AND VULNERABLE MONITORS OF ECOSYSTEM CHANGES IN THE SCOTIA SEA REGION OF ANTARCTICA
Abstract: Sea ice plays a critical role in structuring ecosystem dynamics throughout the Scotia ... Sea (SS) region, and variations in ice extent are hypothesized to affect predator populations in this ... area directly. A paradigm guiding recent research in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region of ... the SS, the “sea-ice hypothesis”, suggests that declines in the seasonal extent and duration of sea ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/17 : Author(s): W.Z. Trivelpice, J.T. Hinke, A.K. Miller, C. Reiss, S.G. Trivelpiece and G.M. Watters (USA)
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Are penguins and seals in competition for Antarctic krill at South Georgia?
Abstract: The Antarctic fur seal and macaroni penguin are sympatric top predators that occur in ... consumers of Antarctic krill. In recent years the population of fur seals has increased whereas that of ... and are restricted in their foraging range at least while provisioning their offspring. In this study ... we test the hypothesis that the expanded fur seal population at South Georgia may have resulted in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/22 : Author(s): K.E. Barlow, I.L. Boyd, J.P. Croxall, I.J. Staniland, K. Reid and A.S. Brierley (United Kingdom)
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AN ASSESSMENT OF ARTIFICIAL BAIT (NORBAIT™) AS A MEANS OF REDUCING THE INCIDENTAL CATCH OF MACROURUS AND OTHER BYCATCH SPECIES IN HIGH LATITUDE TOOTHFISH FISHERIES
(rattails) and other bycatch species in the toothfish autoline longline fishery. A company vessel carried ... out some initial experimental work in the western Ross Sea (CCAMLR Statistical Subarea 88.1) in 2007 ... Aspiring operating in the waters of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (CCAMLR Statistical ... were set in both Subareas; a total of 137,000 experimental hooks. The evaluation was based on ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/52 : Author(s): J.M. Fenaughty (New Zealand)
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Report of biological observations carried out on board the krill fishing vessel More Sodruzhestva in April to August 1991
fishing vessel More Sodruzhestva in April to August 1991 in Subareas 48.2 and 48.3. The program included ... channichthyids. In general, krill density in Subarea 48.2 was twice as high as that in Subarea 48.3. Catch-per ... dominant in catches taken in April/May in the north-west of Subarea 48.2. Krill of modal sizes 31 to 32 mm ... and 35 to 36 mm made up the bulk of catches in the south-east of the subarea. No by-catch of juvenile ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/06 : Author(s): V.I. Latogursky (Russia)
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Biological characteristics of Antarctic fish stocks in the Southern Scotia Arc region
Abstract: Commercial exploitation of finfish in the southern Scotia Arc took place from 1977/78 ... catches in the first four years of the fishery and the possibility to sample these catches extensively ... . Scientific surveys were only conducted by Germany in 1985, and by Spain in 1987 and 1991. Recently, the US ... lower South Shetland Islands in 1998 and around the South Orkney Islands in 1999. New data are presented ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/16 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany), C. Jones (USA) and S. Wilhelms (Germany)