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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia, 2004/05
43% on the 361 items recorded in 2003/04 that corresponded to the highest levels of summer beach ... than the previous recording period with only 23% of the total number of debris items being collected in ... stable with 4.1135kg collected this year, whilst 5.3957 kg was gathered in 2003/04. For the second ... pieces in 1995/96. Over the same 15-year period packing bands are still regularly recovered from the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Beach debris survey, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2003/04
recovered (a decrease of 61% and 57.56% since 2002/03 respectively). There was a decrease in the number of ... reversing the rise in packaging bands experienced over the previous two seasons and marking a return to what ... has otherwise proved a declining trend since 1993/94. Despite this seasons decrease in these packaging ... fishing vessels brought into force by CCAMLR in 1995/96 has yet to prove entirely effective and should ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/15 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Is population structure of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) determined by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?
Abstract: Water transported by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in the Southern Ocean may ... island groups with little energetic cost, and may constrain movement in other directions, influencing ... of the ACC, and off Kerguelen and South Georgia Islands, situated respectively in the southern Indian ... a likelihood method. Toothfish showed significant differences in VB parameters between the Falkland ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/84 : Author(s): J.R. Ashford, C.M. Jones, E. Hofmann (USA), I. Everson (United Kingdom) and G. Duhamel (France)
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Beach debris survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 1998/99
recovered was more than double the mass of items in 1997/98. Classifying the material by source revealed ... that 40% had come from ships or fishing vessels in the form of packaging bands, fishing net and foam ... on the use of packaging bands aboard fishing vessels brought into force by CCAMLR in 1995/96, the ... from beaches at Signy may be partly to do with their longevity in the marine environment. The increase ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVIII/BG/7 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL FOR MARINE SPATIAL PROTECTION AROUND THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
areas of conservation importance and the selection of candidate sites for protection. In addition, the ... (covering the region marked in Figure 3) contributing towards the conservation of marine biodiversity in ... ) would apply; ii) Recommend to the Commission that further intersessional work be undertaken in relation ... to the additional areas of conservation importance identified in this paper, with a view to ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/14 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Factors affecting the growth rate and mass at weaning of Antarctic fur seal pups at Bird Island, South Georgia
maternal characteristics in 1988 or 1989. However in 1990 there was a negative relationship between growth ... the pups influenced the nature and magnitude of sex differences in estimated growth rates. Growth ... , maternal investment was greater in sons than daughters because males were heavier at birth and older at ... conditions that normally exist, individual differences in the growth of pups are most likely influenced by ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/09 : Author(s): N.J. Lunn, I.L. Boyd, T. Barton and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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A SIMULATION MODEL FOR EVALUATING MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO CONSERVE BENTHIC HABITATS (VULNERABLE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS) WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY VULNERABLE TO IMPACTS FROM BOTTOM FISHERIES
ecosystems’ in order to maintain the ecological structure and function of, particularly, deep sea benthic ... enables uncertainties to be captured in a straight‐forward manner to assist CCAMLR in maintaining its ... precautionary approach in managing Antarctic fisheries. The functions developed in this paper provide ... placeholders in the simulation framework and can be replaced when better functions are developed. Author(s ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-09/21 : Author(s): A.J. Constable (Australia)
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Secretariat
Strategic Plan Budget Location CCAMLR's Secretariat is located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Situated ... the Government of Australia in respect of CCAMLR's operations in Australia. In collaboration with ... detailed in the Convention Text. These include: facilitating communications with and between Members ... . In addition, the Strategic Plan outlines the Secretariat services provided for Members and ...
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CCAMLR Scheme of International Scientific Observation (SISO)
The CCAMLR Scheme of International Scientific Observation was adopted in 1992 under Article XXIV ... , as well as those of related and dependent species. The scheme also plays a crucial role in developing ... mitigation measures. All vessels fishing in CCAMLR fisheries are required to carry an observer for all of ... CCAMLR Members in planning observation programs and recording data, the Secretariat has developed a ...
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Large-scale oceanographic fluctuations drive Antarctic petrel survival and reproduction
predict variation in the demographic parameters of Antarctic seabirds. First, we used a long-term dataset ... that most of the variation in both reproductive success, timing of hatching, and survival of Antarctic ... petrels can be accurately modeled using the two modes of large-scale climate variability in Antarctica. e ... in the global patterns of climatic variability will generally have detrimental e ects on populations ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/P14 : Author(s): S. Descamps, A. Tarroux, S.-H. Lorentsen, O.P. Love, Ø. Varpe and N.G. Yoccoz