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1. DISCRIMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES THAT INFLUENCE THE CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT: THE CASE OF THE ANTARCTIC KRILL FISHERY

   standardization process consisting of isolating all those exogenous factors from temporal variations in abundance ... from the CPUE time-series. These exogenous factors include those generated by modifications in fishery ... vessel efficiency, variations in fishing strategies, and environmental fluctuations. The selection of the ... the environmental effects vary on different temporal scales in autocorrelated and non-random manners ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/P3 : Author(s): J.C. Quiroz, R. Wiff, M.A. Barrientos and F. Contreras

2. Seabird research at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica, 2005/06

   to assess trends in penguin population size, as well as inter-annual variation in reproductive ... previous season and is the third lowest population size in the 10 years of census data. The chinstrap ... penguin breeding population has been declining for the Past eight years and is at its lowest size in the ... 10 years of study. Gentoo penguin fledging Success was the highest recorded in all the years of study ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/P1 : Author(s): E.S.W. Leung, R.A. Orben and W.Z. Trivelpiece (USA)

3. Trends of Antarctic fur seal population at SSSI No. 32, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica

   Abstract:  We update in this paper the previously reported model for the Antarctic fur seal ... developed at Cape Shirreff during 1998/99, but we could not census the San Telmo Islets. In this regard, we ... had to model the population at the latter site, in order to have a complete estimate of the population ... . From this, we estimated an overall increase of 17% in the total population, including in this figure a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/16 : Author(s): R. Hucke-Gaete, D. Torres, A. Aguayo, J. Acevedo and V. Vallejos (Chile)

4. Potentially commercial invertebrates on Ob Bank: Moroteuthis ingens (Oegopsida) and Paralomis aculeata (Anomura) (Division 58.4.4)

   , they have not been fished nor any fishable aggregations of them detected to date in the CCAMLR ... Convention Area. The squid Moroteuthis ingens has been constantly present in bottom trawl catches on Ob Bank ... during aimed fishery for Lepidonotothen squamifrons. At maximum, the proportion of squid in the total ... catches exceeded half of the catch, reaching 1310 kg per hour of trawling. All the squid were in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/15 : Author(s): Pshenichnov, L.K.

5. Age determination of the Antarctic fishes Champsocephalus gunnari and Notothenia rossii from South Georgia

   Abstract:  Foremost in the elucidation of accurate population dynamics parameters in fish is a ... , including mortality, population age structure, and changes in individual growth. Most investigations have ... used annual rhythmic deposition in calcified tissues as time marks but, due ts the lack of distinct ... periodicity in Antarctic hydrographic conditions, age determination of Antarctic fish has proven to be ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VI/BG/43 : Author(s): R. Radtke (USA)

6. Slow recovery of previously depleted demersal fish at the South Shetland Islands, 1983–2010

   closed this fishery in 1990. We report changes in size and abundance of the commercially exploited ... declined from 1983 to 1991, and an increase in mean size during 1983-84 is consistent with weak cohorts ... stability (1992-1994), a sharp increase in length and a continued decline in relative abundance indicated ... period showed no change in modal size or mean length of the fish. We relate these patterns to the fishery ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/P01 : Author(s): E.R. Marschoff, E.R. Barrera-Oro, N.S. Alescio and D.G. Ainley

7. A proposal for the establishment of a Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area

   (Commission or CCAMLR) of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Ross Sea Region (“Ross Sea Region Marine ... Protected Area”). First submitted at CCAMLR XXXI in October 2012 and again at CCAMLR SM-II in July 2013 ... MPA proposal at the recent meetings of the Scientific Committee and Commission in Bremerhaven in July ... revisions are changes to the proposed MPA boundaries in the areas of the northern seamounts and Scott ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXII/27 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and the USA

8. The Price of Fish: A global trade analysis of Patagonian (Dissostichus eleginoides) and Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)

   ), there are currently no methods in place to monitor the volume or value of toothfish traded in the ... global patterns of trade volume and price. The analysis focused on the ten countries most active in the ... 44% from 2007 to 2012 with an overall decrease in traded volume. The USA accounted for 54% of total ... % from 2007 to 2012 with an overall decrease in traded volume. Initial summary analyses reveal a strong ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIII/BG/14 Rev. 2 : Author(s): Secretariat

9. Direct ageing of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) – potential utility of eyestalk sections for age determination

   Abstract:  We outline a method for the direct determination of age in Antarctic krill (Euphausia ... superba). Recent studies (Kilada et al. 2012), have shown that annular growth bands are present in the ... endocuticle layer of the eyestalks and gastric mill in decapod crustaceans. Here we report on a preliminary ... Antarctic Division and examined using the methods outlined in (Kilada et al. 2012). Two analyses are ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/45 : Author(s): C. Reiss (USA), R. Kilada (Canada) and S. Kawaguchi (Australia)

10. Report on the CCAMLR Marine Debris monitoring program

    common type of debris items found in beach surveys. The fishing items found were mostly from longline and ... trawl origins. Plastic packaging bands continue to be found in beach surveys, with an increase in open ... bands found at Bird Island. The amount of debris in albatross colonies at Bird Island varies; debris ... . The amount of fishing related items (fishing lines and hooks) found in wandering albatross colonies ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/15 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

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