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Relationship to the Antarctic Treaty System
an integral part of the Antarctic Treaty System. Provisions in the CAMLR Convention bind Contracting ... Parties to a range of obligations in the Antarctic Treaty, including: Article III Article IV.1, and ... on Environmental Protection, as well as the conservation principles embedded in the Convention itself ... Parties to the Antarctic Treaty, agree that they will not engage in activities in the Antarctic Treaty ...
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CCAMLR-X
conservation measures in 1990/91 Executive Secretary CCAMLR-X/10 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the ... from the icebreaker Almirante Irizar in accordance with the System of Inspection Delegation of ... Argentina CCAMLR-X/13 Report of inspection in the CCAMLR Convention Area, 1990/91 USSR CCAMLR-X/14 Proposal ... activities in the Convention Area 1990/91 South Africa CCAMLR-X/MA/02 Report of Member’s activities in the ...
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Meeting of Antarctic experts comes to a close
for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart, Australia. Early in ... groups responsible for monitoring ecosystems in the Southern Ocean. The meetings concluded in the last ... second year in which there were no reports of illegal fishing in the Convention Area. The Commission ... products from fishing vessels in the entire Convention Area. CCAMLR initiated a major new program to foster ...
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Population of macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus at Marion Island, 1994/95 to 2002/03, with information on breeding and diet
from about 405 000 pairs in 1983/84 and 434 000 pairs in 1994/95 to about 356 000 pairs in 2002/03. Two ... demonstration of a significant decrease in the overall population. Numbers of occupied nests at other colonies ... decreased from 79 000 in 1994/95 to 31 000 in 2002/03. At three small colonies there was a significant ... . However, during this period there was a significant increase in reproductive success with time. In the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/15 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, J. Cooper and B.M. Dyer (South Africa)
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The biology and ecology of mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari – an Antarctic fish species that lack haemoglobin
, its distribution ranges from the Scotia Arc region, namely South Georgia, in the Atlantic Ocean sector ... to the Kerguelen-Heard Plateau in the Indian Ocean sector. Mackerel icefish have been heavily ... exploited since the beginning of the 1970's with reported annual catches exceeding 50- 100 000 tomes in ... characteristics in common, such as feeding mode and food, early life history, and growth in the first years of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/24 : Author(s): Everson, I., Kock, K.-H.
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Beach litter survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 1993/94
summers. Debris was cleared from three study beaches, Foca Cove, Cummings Cove and Starfish Cove, in ... from any scientific research stations in the South Orkney Islands. The beach litter surveys carried out ... in 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93 showed a drop in both the weight of debris and the total number of ... kg in 1993/94 compared to 4.45 kg in 1992/93, and the number of items recovered increased to 118 ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XIII/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Exploratory longline fishing around the Kerguelen Islands (Division 58.5.1). Description of the fishing effort; catchability and target size of Dissostichus eleginoides
about 2 400 to 3 600 straight hooks, which are from 61 to 75 mm in length. The bait used is either ... fact that fish become unhooked along the side of the ship, which leads to a real catchability value in ... eleginoides confirm that fish caught are large, their average length being greater than that in catches made ... previously by trawlers in the same area. This average length is comparable for the two successive fishing ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-92/31 Rev. 1 : Author(s): G. Duhamel (France)
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New Zealand Antarctic research programme
reconnaissance and photography are used in the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica to determine where Adelie penguins ... surviving chicks in mid-January (when weight and measurements of samples of chicks at Capes Royds and ... world population. Some rookeries are photographed in all, or most, of the seasons to study the pattern ... of natural population fluctuations. Populations at nearly all rookeries have increased markedly in ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/24 : Author(s): P.R. Wilson (New Zealand)
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New Zealand’s exploratory fishery for toothfish within the SPRFMO Convention Area: update and future directions
caught, that these were mostly male (~85%), and that most fish were in spawning condition or spent. These ... will be shared with CCAMLR and had been used in the stock assessment of Antarctic toothfish in the Ross ... collected in more detail than the timing of the voyages has allowed so far. In addition, to maximise the ... Antarctic toothfish in the region. It is anticipated that this model, targeted for completion in 2021, will ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/18 : Author(s): M. Cryer, A. Dunn and J. Fenaughty
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New Zealand submission for the trial of the CCAMLR observer training program accreditation scheme
Abstract: In 2011, the Scientific Committee endorsed the procedure for training and accreditation ... presented in SC-CAMLR-XXX/08, and invited Members to participate in a trial of the initial review and ... technical peer review. These are described in Parts a–c of the proposed procedure for a CCAMLR observer ... -hoc TASO noted that in order to receive high-quality data from the CCAMLR Scheme of International ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/41 : Author(s): A. Dunn, D. Kerrigan and A. McNabb