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1. Gear loss reported by longline fishing vessels for the 2018 and 2019 fishing seasons

   , including differences in line loss by gear type, is reviewed following recommendations made at WG-FSA-18 ... . Vessels reported 1 632 km of line lost in the Convention Area, of which 27% were complete lines. There was ... no difference in the relative reporting of lost hooks by gear type, with rates of loss recorded at ... 0.3% for each gear type for the past two seasons. There was a significant difference in the frequency ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-2019/18 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

2. Extending the time series of catch-weighted length frequencies

   use of CCAMLR data for D. eleginoides in Subarea 48.3 collected in the seasons 1992/93 and from 1994 ... from 1993/94 because of a mismatch in Flag State which presently occurs between the length and catch ... data. A new procedure was developed which can use the mismatched data. In addition, historic data from ... 1986/87 to 1988/89 were entered in the CCAMLR database. The new procedure and recent data entry have ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-06/04 : Author(s): David Ramm & Lydia Millar

3. OCCURRENCE OF DWARF MINKE WHALES (BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA SUBSP) AROUND THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA

   made only for the whales sighted in the proximity of the vessels when the specific diagnostic ... around the South Shetland Island and four in the Gerlache Strait. In addition, another two animals were ... identified as dwarf minke whales in the Bellinghausen Sea in winter 1993, being these the most southern ... Peninsula during the summer seasons, as well as in the Bellinghausen Sea in winter. The geographical range ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/P2 : Author(s): J. Acevedo, C. Olavarría, J. Plana, A. Aguayo-Lobo, A. Larrea and L.A. Pastene

4. RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT TO DIGITIZE HISTORICAL SOVIET KRILL FISHING EXPEDITION DATA

   commercial expedition’s data has been realized in Ukraine at the Southern Research Institute of Marine ... expeditions in Southern Ocean between the years of 1972-1991. The main purpose of these expeditions was to ... stock. The data was recorded in the paper forms as expedition logbooks and represent an exclusive set of ... observations for investigation of the environment and the climate change impact on krill population in the ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVIII/BG/18 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine

5. An underwater setting method for surface longliners, to minimise the accidental/incidental capture of seabirds

   significant decline in the numbers of some species (most notably albatross Diomedea sp) in the Southern Oceans ... . In response to the sea bird problem, the New Zealand Department of Conservation funded a programme in ... are reported in this document. One with the tube opening facing forward was unsuccessful,in flushing ... bait to the setting depth, however a backward facing U tube succeeded in flushing the bait on all ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/53 : Author(s): Walshe, K.A.R., Parnes, P.

6. Growth per molt of male snow crab Chionoecetes opilio from Conception and Bonavista Bays, Newfoundland

   Abstract:  Over 6000 male snow crabs were tagged during a 6-year period in Conception Bay ... , Newfoundland, in order to estimate the increase in size at the time of molting. Ninety-two animals were ... interpretation. First, animals in the group presumed to have molted twice were at liberty on average twice as ... predicted the size after two molts in close agreement with a regression line fitted to data on double ...

   Meeting Document : WS-CRAB-93/12 : Author(s): D.M. Taylor and J.M. Hoenig (USA)

7. Working Group on Statistics, Assessments and Modelling (WG-SAM)

   In 2001, WG-FSA identified the difficulties that arose when new quantitative methodologies are ... WG-FSA Subgroup on Assessment Methods (WG-FSA-SAM) was established in order to provide an opportunity ... to provide time for a thorough evaluation of new assessment methods prior to their use at WG-FSA. In ... year since 2003, usually in association with the timing and location of the meeting of the Working ...

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8. The Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area: Current proposal and looking forward

   management. Since MPA planning commenced, CCAMLR has identified the Ross Sea as a key region in a ... MPA proposed in 2012 was designed to meet an array of ecological and scientific objectives while also ... allowing for an economically viable toothfish fishery in the Ross Sea. Since 2012, Ross Sea region MPA ... reflected in the current proposal. Through this document, ASOC highlights the revisions made to the current ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/27 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

9. About CCAMLR

   Resources (CCAMLR) was established by international convention in 1982 with the objective of conserving ... Antarctic marine life. This was in response to increasing commercial interest in Antarctic krill resources ... marine resources in the Southern Ocean. Ecosystem-based management Being responsible for the conservation ... not exclude harvesting as long as such harvesting is carried out in a sustainable manner and takes ...

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10. Status of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus 1758, at Bird Island, South Georgia

    breeding in tussock grassland at sub-Antarctic islands. Over the last decade it has been killed in large ... numbers in temperate and sub-tropical longline fisheries. However, no data are available on the global ... the distributioin and density of occupied burrows in 1981 and 1998. In both surveys white-chinned ... petrel burrows occurred in one-quarter of the 460–47736-m2 quadrats surveyed. The total number of burrows ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/26 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S.D. Berrow, J.P. Croxall and S.D. Grant (United Kingdom)

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