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Review of activities in monitoring marine debris in the CAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: In 2011 data on beach surveys, debris associated with seabird colonies, marine mammal ... -fishing items such as packaging and wood remain the most common type of debris items found in beach ... found in beach surveys with closed bands found at Bird Island (1) and King George Island (3), despite ... Conservation Measure 26-01 requiring packaging bands to be cut up into 30 cm pieces. The amount of debris in ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-11/04 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Temporal variability in Antarctic marine ecosystems: periodic fluctuations in the phocid seals
Abstract: Three species of seals around Antarctica have shown quasi-cyclic patterns in some ... (Hydrurga leptonyx) have appeared in unusually large numbers at Macquarie Island, also at 4- to 5-yr ... intervals; and Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in McMurdo Sound have undergone fluctuations in ... behavior when demodulated at a period of 5 yr. The Weddell seals were generally in phase with the SOI since ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-91/13 : Author(s): J.W. Testa, G. Oehlert, D.G. Ainley, J.L. Bengtson, D.B. Siniff, R.M. Laws and D. Rounsevell (USA)
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Research plan for toothfish in Divisions 58.4.4a and 58.4.4b by Shinsei Maru No. 3 in 2010/11
Abstract: In order to clarify the stock status and biological characteristics of Dissostichus spp ... . In Division 58.4.4 a & b, we submit this research plan for toothfish in the Division by Shinsei ... Maru No. 3 to be conducted in April-June 2011. This is the second year of the survey of the 3-5 years ... consecutive research focusing on tagging program, recommended by WG-SAM-09 in this Division, following the ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-10/15 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Trends in entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at South Georgia
Abstract: A study conducted at South Georgia in 1988/1989 indicated that several thousand ... Antarctic fur seals were entangled mainly in man-made material originating from fishing vessels ... incidence has been halved in recent years. However, the South Georgia fur seal population has approximately ... doubled in the same period, so that the overall total of animals entangled may even have increased ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XV/BG/03 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Proposal by the Russian Federation to open Areas of Special Scientific Interest in three sectors of Antarctica in the CCAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: According to the Antarctic Treaty, which came into force in 1961, Antarctica is an area ... scientific research and biological resources in the Southern Ocean. The regulations on such activities are ... set forth in the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and are governed ... expiration date of the Antarctic Treaty, nations are more actively showing an interest in this region and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/22 : Author(s): Delegation of the Russian Federation
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Foraging energetics of Antarctic fur seals in relation to changes in prey availability
when food was plentiful and when it was scarce. The energy expenditure and change in body mass of ... lactating female Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, foraging at sea was measured in two years using ... doubly labeled water at South Georgia Island. There was no difference between years in mass gain, water ... . Krill, the nearly exclusive prey of breeding females, were very scarce in 1984 at South Georgia. Fur ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Revised research plan for toothfish in Divisions 58.4.4 a and 58.4.4b by Shinsei maru No. 3 in 2012/13
Abstract: A tagging survey in SSRUs B and C in Division 58.4.4 a & b was conducted in the ... structure, size, movement and growth of Dissostichus spp. in the centred area of Division 58.4.4 a & b ... . An approximate stock biomass level of Dissostichus spp. in the survey area was tentatively estimated ... ton) was smaller than that 1 928 tonnes estimated in the WG-FSA meeting in 2011 (SC-CAMLR XXX, Annext ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/58 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Investigating emigration in stock assessment models of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C–H
Abstract: In 2013, the Scientific Committee of CCAMLR could not achieve consensus on a stock ... status for Antarctic toothfish in Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C-H and identified several areas for further ... work. This was presented to WG-SAM in 2014, and found that the models were unable to fit patterns in ... the recaptures of tagged fish seen in the SSRU 88.2H fishery. The patterns showed a sharp decay rate ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/56 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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Protection of young fish and spawning aggregations in the fishery for Champsocephalus gunnari in Subarea 48.3 (South Georgia): a discussion
Abstract: The need to protect young fish and spawning aggregations in fisheries generally, and ... specifically in the C. gunnari fishery in Subarea 48.3, is reviewed. Mechanisms available to achieve these ... objectives are discussed, including the measures put in place by CCAMLR to date. These measures are re ... -examined in the light of new information, and a strategy for the future protection of young fish and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/52 : Author(s): G. Parkes (United Kingdom)
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Research plan for the exploratory fisheries for Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 and Divisions 58.4.1, 58.4.2 and 58.4.3a in 2013/14
Abstract: Japan has notified its intention to participate in the exploratory fisheries for ... Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 and Divisions 58.4.1, 58.4.2 and 58.4.3a in 2013/14. The research plan ... details the objectives, rationale and activities proposed for research fishing, in accordance with ... Conservation Measures 21-02 and 24-01. A progress report on the research fishing in Subarea 48.6 in 2012/13 was ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/09 : Author(s): Submitted by the Secretariat on behalf of Japan