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AND DOMESTIC SUBANTARCTIC FISHERIES BY THE AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION AND THE AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
targeting finfish in the CCAMLR area. As the assessments and conservation measures employed by CCAMLR ... increase in sophistication, the tasks required to be completed by observers are increasing in number and ... complexity. Such a set of qualities is rarely available ‘off the shelf’. To ensure that observers in these ... quality assurance has been developed. This system covers all aspects of the observers’ experience in the ...
Meeting Document : TASO-08/05 : Author(s): O’Regan, K., Welsford, D., Robertson, T., Lamb, T.
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Review of the South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf (MPA Planning Domain 1, Subarea 48.2)
in 2009 (CCAMLR-XXVIII paragraph 7.1; CM 91-03) with the objective of contributing towards the ... conservation of biodiversity in Subarea 48.2, and to the development of a representative system of protected ... , based on advice from the Scientific Committee, at its regular meeting in 2014 and at subsequent five ... -year periods (CM 91-03, paragraph 9). Based on assessments described in the draft MPA Report and draft ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/26 : Author(s): Delegation of the European Union
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Summary of holdings of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) otoliths and size-at-age estimates from Heard and McDonald Islands (Division 58.5.2)
Abstract: Scientific observers aboard vessels in the Australian fisheries in 58.5.2 have ... collected Dissostichus eleginoides otoliths since the fishery commenced in the 1996/97 season. This program ... has yielded data which has assisted with understanding age structure and growth rates of toothfish in ... 21000 otoliths have been collected from toothfish in 58.5.2, and more than 2500 otolith pairs have been ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/45 : Author(s): D.C. Welsford and G.B. Nowara (Australia)
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Light levels experienced by foraging Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella
(Arctocephalus gazella) at Bird Island, South Georgia (54° 00' S 38° 02' W) in the 1994/5 austral ... to minimum starlight (10-6 lux) at night and during deep daytime dives. The change in il1uminance ... with depth did not follow a simple exponential decrease as recorded in clear oceanic waters. TDRs ... recorded strong light attenuation in the top 50 m of the water column. The mean attenuation coefficient was ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/28 : Author(s): D.J. McCafferty, I.L. Boyd and T.R. Walker (UnitedKingdom)
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Streamlining the work of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (SC-CAMLR)
Abstract: In recent years, the Scientific Committee has been dealing with a great diversity of ... at present. In our view, this stems from constraints on the way SC-CAMLR does work. In this paper ... , we describe these constraints and combine thoughts given to the CCAMLR Symposium in May 2015 on how ... these issues may be resolved. In particular, we propose some options for re-organising the work and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/59 : Author(s): G. Watters (USA), A. Constable and D. Welsford (Australia)
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Measurement of ocean temperatures using instruments carried by Antarctic fur seals
measuring physical oceanographic variation and, using this method, to examine temperature variation in the ... temperature measured by TDRs in the top 5 m and sea surface temperature (SST) measured by satellite remote ... , and through time. The UOR data were used to recalibrate the TDR data in order to correct for the slow ... South Georgia. In particular, the relationship between on- and off-shelf waters showed larger amounts of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/56 : Author(s): I.L. Boyd, E.J. Hawker, M.A. Brandon and I.J. Staniland (United Kingdom)
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CEMP INDICES: 2009 UPDATE
indicator species collected by standard methods in the three Integrated Study Regions of the Convention Area ... anomalies in these data. This report covers biological indices only. Six Members submitted data for 11 sites ... and 12 CEMP parameters in 2008/09. This continues a decreasing trend in the amounts of data being ... submitted to the CCAMLR database. No data was received from CEMP sites in Area 88. Since 1989/90, a total of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/05 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Towards the development of an assessment of stock abundance for Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C–G – a discussion paper
and length frequency data. Although more than 700 tagged fish have been released in this region, only ... 2 fish have been recaptured. It is likely that the lack of tag recaptures in this region has been ... drawing on the success of tagging programmes in other CCAMLR fisheries, we develop an approach for ... main grounds previously fished in SSRUs 88.2C–G. An upper catch limit could be set for each of these ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-14/28 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet and S.J. Parker (New Zealand)
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A proposal for the establishment of a Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area
the establishment of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Ross Sea Region (“Ross Sea Region Marine ... CCAMLR). First submitted at CCAMLR XXXI in October 2012 and again at CCAMLR SM-II in July 2013 (CCAMLR-SM ... -II/04) and CCAMLR XXXII in October 2013 (CCAMLR-XXXII/27), our delegations propose that CCAMLR ... Committee and Commission in Hobart in October 2013. Taking careful consideration of those discussions and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIII/21 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and the USA
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Spatio–temporal dynamics of Antarctic krill fishery: identification of fishing hotspots
Abstract: Antarctic krill is a key species in the Southern Ocean food web and is also the target ... of the greatest fishery in Antarctic waters. Management of the fishery is based on a precautionary ... subarea. Despite that the fishery is operating in the Antarctic Peninsula area since 1980s, the spatial ... and temporal pattern of the fishery is only described in meso to macro scales (>>10 4 km 2 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/52 : Author(s): F. Santa Cruz, B. Ernst and J.A. Arata