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Sounds like more krill
Abstract: Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, comprise the foundation of the food-web in the ... Southern Ocean and are the target of a large fishery. Recently, the total abundance of krill in the Scotia ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to revise the precautionary catch level for krill in ... strength (TS). Presented here is a re-analysis of the CCAMLR 2000 data incorporating recent improvements in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/41 : Author(s): D.A. Demer and S.G. Conti (USA)
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Climate change and precautionary spatial protection: ice shelves
Abstract: Regional climate change is now known to be well established in the Antarctic ... , particularly in the Antarctic Peninsula region. One of the most evident signs of climate change has been ice ... shelf collapse; overall, 87% of the Peninsula’s glaciers have retreated in recent decades. Ice shelf ... to return that were last present during the last interglacial, a warmer period than at present. In ...
Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/17 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and S.M. Grant (UK)
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Distribution and biology of grey notothen (Lepidonotothen squamifrons) around South Georgia and Shag Rocks (Southern Ocean) CCAMLR Subarea 48.3.
regulations in 1989 have meant it is now only caught in sub-area 48.3 during research surveys. Data collected ... distribution, size, maturity, and diet. Distribution was patchy with aggregations in specific ‘hotspots’ to the ... dominated by salps/tunicates, but with ontogenetic and depth variations in prey composition. Enhanced ... knowledge of L. squamifrons in this region will be valuable in future research on habitat and foodweb ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/34 : Author(s): S. Gregory, J. Brown and M. Belchier (United Kingdom)
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Models of larvae dispersion of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)
stock structure in the Ross Sea have parallels for populations in other regions of the Antarctic, and ... locations in the northern areas of Subarea 88.1 & 88.2 to further investigate the possible larval ... dispersal from spatially discrete spawning grounds in these Subareas. Further, we derive plausible spawning ... locations from Scientific Observer sampling of D. mawsoni in other ocean sectors to identify starting ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/48 : Author(s): A. Dunn, G.J. Rickard, S.M. Hanchet and S.J. Parker (New Zealand)
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Identification of important benthic areas for conservation – using shared data from the Domain 1 MPA planning process
proposal for candidate MPAs, however they may be useful in contributing additional information towards the ... located west of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Bransfield Strait and north of the South Shetland Islands ... 1 planning process were used in this study (under the CCAMLR data use and access rules). This study ... demonstrates the value of shared datasets in facilitating additional, supporting analyses for MPA planning. The ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/35 : Author(s): M. Bristow, S. Grant, M. Santos and A. Capurro
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Proposal for a dedicated krill survey for CCAMLR Division 58.4.1 during 2018/19 season by the Japanese survey vessel, Kaiyo-maru
Japan. No krill biomass has been estimated in the Division since 1996 when Australia carried out BROKE ... . There are two main objectives of our survey: (1) estimation of krill biomass to update B 0 in the ... division and (2) oceanographic observations in the area to detect long term changes if any. Japanese ... research vessel, Kaiyo-maru, will be used in the survey. The krill survey (echosounder and RMT) and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/05 : Author(s): H. Murase, K. Abe, T. Ichii and A. Kawabata
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Revised outline of the dedicated krill survey for CCAMLR Division 58.4.1 during 2018/19 season by the Japanese survey vessel, Kaiyo-maru
conducted by Japanese research vessel, Kaiyo-maru. No krill biomass has been estimated in the Division since ... Australia carried out BROKE in 1996. There are two main objectives of our survey: (1) estimation of krill ... biomass to update B(0) in the area and (2) oceanographic observations in the area to detect long term ... the CCAMLR standard protocol. Utility of 70 kHz in addition to 3 standard frequencies (38, 120 and 200 ...
Meeting Document : SG-ASAM-18/03 : Author(s): H. Murase, K. Abe, R. Matsukura, H. Sasaki and T. Ichii
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Membership
Convention is open for accession by any State interested in research or harvesting activities to which the ... Convention applies. Acceding States do not take part in the decision-making process of the Commission nor ... contribute to the budget. Membership of the Commission is open to any Contracting Party that is engaged in ... research or harvesting activities in relation to the marine living resources to which the Convention ...
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POTENTIAL PHENOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY AND CHANGE FOR ADÉLIE PENGUINS
environmental change and have been reported for a range of species around the globe. In Antarctica, there is a ... trends in clutch initiation dates reported for populations on opposite sides of Antarctica. Such shifts ... in breeding phenology can be indicative of environmental change when cues for breeding initiation are ... tightly linked with environmental conditions or may reflect other underlying causes such as changes in a ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/33 : Author(s): L. Emmerson and C. Southwell (Australia)
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Convener’s summary on intersessional activities of the Subgroup for the Implementation of the CCAMLR-2008-IPY-Survey
Abstract: At its last meeting in October 2004 the Scientific Committee agreed that a synoptic ... acoustic survey in the South Atlantic region would be the most appropriate activity for CCAMLR in the IPY ... 2008. It was agreed that a synoptic acoustic/net sampling survey in the South Atlantic region should ... intersessional steering group to formulate CCAMLR’s Expression of Intend for activities in the IPY and submit ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/02 Rev. 1 : Author(s): V. Siegel (Convener, Steering Group ‘CCAMLR-2008-IPY-Survey’)