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Male krill grow fast and die young
examined with an extensive dataset derived from scientific surveys in the Indian Ocean sector and the ... southwest Atlantic sector, and from the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean. The percentage of males in size ... classes of adult krill was generally high in krill of 30-35 mm total length, always low in 38-42 mm krill ... , sometimes showed higher values in 45-50 mm krill, but always decreased in the largest krill (>50 mm ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/P6 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, L.A. Finley, S. Jarman, S.G. Candy (Australia), R.M. Ross, L.B. Quetin (USA), V. Siegel (Germany), W. Trivelpiece (USA), M. Naganobu (Japan) and S. Nicol (Australia)
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Oil, marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia 1995/96
Abstract: In the third year of standardised recording of oil, fishing gear and marine debris at ... grey-headed albatrosses (two items). One gentoo penguin chick was released from entanglement in a ... were reported in association with grey-headed albatrosses (one squid jig decoy), black-browed ... (two squid jigs; six hooks swallowed and impaled (four in adults, two in chicks), the remainder being ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XV/BG/04 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Diet and feeding ecology of the diving petrels Pelecanoides georgicus and P. urinatrix at South Georgia
Bird Island, South Georgia. The diet of both species was dominated by crustaceans. in particular ... crustaceans in the diet of P. georgicus. and copepods, which contributed 71 % of the biomass of crustaceans in ... the diet of P. urinatrix. Calanoides acutus was the most numerous copepod in the diet of both species ... ; however, Rhincocalamus gigas was more common in P. urinatrix than in P. georgicus. The dominant amphipod ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/10 : Author(s): Croxall, J.P., Prince, P.A., Hill, H.J., Edwards, T.M., Reid, K.
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Effect of a shore-based sampling program on Notothenia coriiceps populations
coriiceps was studied at Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands, by comparing catch data taken in successive ... summers of 1992/93 to 1994/95 at one specific zone (site 1) with those taken in the same last summer at ... under similar sampling conditions (depth, net measurements, bottom type). In site 1, a marked decrease ... in length (TL) of the fish was observed throughout the whole period. The fish from sites 2 (x=32.4 cm ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/24 : Author(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina)
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e-cc-viii-aE.pdf
... the Scientific Committee (CCAMLR/VII, paragraphs 140 to 141). 3. Two papers were submitted in ... Appendices 1 and 2. 4. In presenting its paper (WG-DAC-89/5), Norway suggested that the general objectives ... of CCAMLR as set out in Article II of the Convention require an approach to fishery management ... basically different from that presently being applied in most regions of the world. Although multi- species
application/pdf attached to:WG-DAC-89Meeting Report : WG-DAC-89
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Meeting of Antarctic experts comes to a close
Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart, Australia. Early in October, scientists met to review ... responsible for monitoring ecosystems in the Southern Ocean. These meetings concluded in the first week of ... for existing MPAs, as well as proposals to establish three new MPAs – in East Antarctica, in the ... Weddell Sea, and in the Western Antarctic Peninsula – were the subject of much discussion. Members will ...
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Winter habitat selection by Antarctic krill will increase krill-predator-fishery interactions during ice free years
Abstract: Climate change will affect populations and fisheries in the Southern Ocean as area ... typically covered by seasonal sea-ice become ice free in some winters (Stammerjohn et al. 2008). For ... of a commercial fishery (Nicol et al. 2010; Watters et al. 2013), recent declines in seasonal sea-ice ... around the Antarctic Peninsula in winters with contrasting ice conditions provide the first acoustic ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/05 : Author(s): C.S. Reiss, A. Cossio, C.D. Jones, A. Murray, G. Mitchell, J. Santora, K. Dietrich, E. Weiss, C. Gimpel, J. Walsh and G.M. Watters (USA)
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SEASONAL ESTIMATION OF ABUNDANCE BY BOOTSTRAPPING INEXACT RESEARCH DATA (SEABIRD): A METHOD FOR ASSESSING ABUNDANCE AND UNCERTAINTY FROM HISTORICAL COUNT DATA USING ADELIE PENGUINS AS A CASE STUDY
Abstract: In addition to a review of published studies on Adelie penguin abundance at breeding ... sites in Antarctica, Southwell (2004) proposed a general abundance estimator appropriate for a species ... of that kind. The present study attempts to implement this estimator in the form of a parametric ... uncertainty at breeding sites in Antarctica. To achieve this task, a menu-driven suite of routines titled ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-PSW-08/11 : Author(s): J.P. McKinlay and C.J. Southwell (Australia)
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Distribution and abundance of skates (Bathyraja spp.) on the Kerguelen Plateau through the lens of the toothfish fisheries
as incidental by-catch in Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) longline and trawl ... fisheries, and the mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) trawl fishery on the Kerguelen Plateau (KP) in ... mainly with depth. Off Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI), in the southern part of the KP, B ... respectively. The smallest species, B. murrayi, occurred mainly in the shallower waters down to 550 m, and was ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/P03 : Author(s): G.B. Nowara, P. Burch, N. Gasco, D.C. Welsford, T.D. Lamb, C. Chazeau, G. Duhamel, P. Pruvost, S. Wotherspoon and S.G. Candy
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e-cc-xxiii-a4.pdf
... ’ ACTIVITIES IN THE CONVENTION AREA............ 128 SUPPORT FOR PARTICIPATION AT MEETINGS ... recommended that the Commission accept the financial statements as presented in CCAMLR-XXIII/3. AUDIT ... REQUIREMENT FOR 2004 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 3. The Committee noted that the Commission had decided in 1994 ... that a full audit should be performed on average once every two years, and in 1995 that this would be
application/pdf attached to:SCAF-04Meeting Report : SCAF-04