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Second International Fishers Forum: executive summary Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council
, 2002, in Honolulu, Hawaii. IFF2 built on the First International Fishers Forum (IFF1) held in Auckland ... , New Zealand in November 2000. IFF2 widened the focus of IFF1 to address the bycatch of sea turtles as ... , government agencies, non-governmental organizations and other interested parties from 28 countries in the ... Atlantic, East and Central Pacific, North Pacific and South Pacific participated in IFF2. The 4-day meeting ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/25
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CCAMLR conservation measures: review of the numbering system
numbers and Roman numerals. This system is simple, uniquely identifies each measure, and has been in use ... retained. The presentation of measures in the annually published Schedule of Conservation Measures in Force ... appropriate, the target species, area, season and fishing gear to which the measure applies. In addition, two ... new tables may be included in the schedule to indicate which measures applied to particular fisheries ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXI/15 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Population trends of albatrosses and petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island
during the early to mid-1990s. Recently, all species have once again stabilized or decreased in numbers ... and can be explained by changes in tuna (Thunnus spp.) longline fishing effort in the southern Indian ... Ocean. A recent increase in tuna longlining, as well as recent large-scale Illegal, Unregulated and ... , could be contributing to the recent decreases in some of these species. Adoption of mitigation measures ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/11 : Author(s): D.C. Nel, P.G. Ryan, R.J.M. Crawford, J. Cooper and O. Huyser (South Africa)
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Relative abundance of large whales around South Georgia
whaling in 1965, we report three independent sighting databases: a cruise in 1997, observations from Bird ... growing at 7% per annum. In contrast, blue and fin whales appear to be less abundant. A single blue whale ... mother-calf pair was observed off the Shag Rocks in February 1997. Extirpation of animals from this ... humans, an unusually high rate of natural mortality, habitat change such as alteration in sea ice ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/34 : Author(s): M.J. Moore (USA), S.D. Berrow (UK), B.A. Jensen (USA), P. Carr (UK), R. Sears (Canada) and V.J. Rowntree, R. Payne and P.K. Hamilton (USA)
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Acoustic visualization of the three-dimensional prey field of foraging chinstrap penguins
Abstract: Predator-prey interactions play an important role in determining the dynamics of ... pelagic ecosystems. Human intervention in such interactions can have effects that cascade throughout these ... Antarctic krill, a keystone prey species in the Southern Ocean food web. It has been difficult to evaluate ... the surface distribution of penguins and krill distributed in the 30- 40 m depth layer; no spatial ...
Meeting Document : WG-Joint-94/12 : Author(s): J.E. Zamon, C.H. Greene, E. Meir, D.A. Demer, R.P. Hewitt and S. Sexton (USA)
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Distribution of Antarctic krill concentrations exploited by Japanese krill trawlers and minke whates
krill fishing and minke whaling (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) data was investigated in relation to bottom ... sectors. In early summer (December) the areas of operation for both fisheries were affected by the ... latitudinal position and shape of the pack-ice edge. Harvesting was frequently conducted in the vicinity of a ... more southerly positioned pack-ice edge. Whaling was also undertaken in the embayments created by the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/31 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM)
WG-EMM first met in 1995 after the amalgamation of the Working Group on Krill (WG-Krill) and the ... implementation of, and ensure continuity in CEMP. (vii) Taking into account assessments and research carried out ... ecosystems and for management of krill fisheries in full accordance with Convention Article II. Addressing ... these terms of reference remains at the core of the work of WG-EMM. In addition, the Working Group now ...
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Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands) - long-term marine monitoring program
Abstract: Dynamic climate changes have become noticeable in recent decades, especially in the ... biotic elements in Admiralty Bay. In this paper we provide WG-EMM with an update on proposed project ... ) marine monitoring program in the region of Admiralty Bay was started. Biological, chemical and geological ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/47 : Author(s): A. Panasiuk-Chodnicka, M. Korczak-Abshire, M.I. Żmijewska, K. Chwedorzewska, E. Szymczak, D. Burska, D. Pryputniewicz-Flis and K. Łukawska-Matuszewska (Poland)
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Beach debris survey, Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia, 2002/03
recorded in 2001/02 and the lowest levels of beach debris during summer since the first year of recording ... in 1990/91. The distribution of debris between summer and winter was similar to the previous year ... (3.6 kg) was a decrease of 1 kg since last year. There was a decrease in the proportion of nylon ... reduction in fishing gear found on the beach throughout the recording period, particularly during the winter ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Antarctic fur seal population dynamics update and assessment of census error at SSSI No. 32, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica (2000/2001)
of Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, in the South Shetland Archipelago. Since all censuses ... was developed for assessing uncertainties in the estimates of the counts (inter and intra-observer ... identified and corresponded to beaches in which variation cannot be entirely attributed to inter-observer ... censuses in a considerable way. These factors should all be assessed and taken into account when ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/49 : Author(s): R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile)