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1. Development of the CCAMLR Marine Protected Area (MPA) Information Repository (CMIR)

   ), which has been divided into two phases for development. Phase 1 is a proof of concept targeted for ... completion in October 2019, with outcomes including the deployment of the CMIR host server, a project ... Members to begin submitting projects following completion. Phase 2 will further develop the CMIR with a ... established CMIR host server, and development of a search portal as well as tools to support MPA reporting ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/04 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

2. Improving the monitoring and control of transhipments in CCAMLR

   Abstract:  Improving monitoring and control of transhipments continues to be a key issue for ... recommendations and make CCAMLR a leader in this area. ASOC recommends that CCAMLR: Prevent NCP carrier vessels ... accountable for non-compliance by their flagged vessels. Develop and require use of a standardized ... transhipment declaration form to ensure consistent reporting between vessels. This is a requirement at many ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-38/BG/46 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

3. Descriptive analysis of mesopelagic backscatter from acoustic data collected in the Ross Sea

   Abstract:  This report presents results from a pilot study to investigate the use of acoustics to ... data were collected from the research vessel Tangaroa during a voyage to the western Ross Sea in ... much more backscatter in the upper 1000 m and a wider variety of mark types north of 67° S. Common mark ... types in the northern region included a surface layer at less than 50 m depth, schools and layers ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/11 : Author(s): R.L. O’Driscoll (New Zealand)

4. EXTRAPOLATING CONTINUOUS PLANKTON RECORDER DATA THROUGH THE SOUTHERN OCEAN USING BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES

   , called BRT (Boosted Regression Trees), to data on the distribution of Oithona similis, a small cyclopoid ... copepod which is abundant through much of near-surface waters of the Southern Ocean. A large dataset (> ... Plankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Survey. We demonstrate that it is possible to obtain a relationship between both ... estimate abundances of O. similis through the Southern Ocean. We present a number of methods for ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/12 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, A.N.H. Smith (New Zealand), B. Raymond, G. Hosie (Australia) and B. Sharp (New Zealand)

5. Spatial and seasonal distribution of adult Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean: predictions using boosted regression trees

   Abstract:  We applied a multivariate statistical modelling technique called boosted regression ... conditions in a broadly similar way throughout the Southern Ocean. Compared to a compilation of nethaul data ... adult stages combined. The models show higher occurrence and elevated abundances in a broad circumpolar ... Scotia Sea, two areas off east Antarctica, in the frontal zone north of the Amundsen Sea, and a small ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P14 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, A.N.H. Smith, B. Raymond, G.W. Hosie, B. Sharp, J.R. Leathwick and J.M. Bradford-Grieve

6. Adélie penguins as indicators of the state of the sea-ice in Adélie Land

   the population there, a second complete breeding failure took place in the season 2016-17, leading to ... precipitations occurred only over 2-3 days in mid-November 2016 and several nests were buried under more than a ... meter of snow, but the snow falls were immediately followed by almost a week with temperatures ... glacier in front of Pétrel Island. This is a serious threat to the populations of Pétrel Island and a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/01 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Y. Ropert-Coudert, A. Kato and C. Barbraud

7. Defining smaller management areas within CCAMLR

   and highlights a work program in this development. It provides the theoretical foundation for ... harvested species, and the “predator unit”, which does not have to be a relatively self-contained ecosystem ... predators being monitored in other units. Harvesting units are defined and a number of additional divisions ... derived conceptual model is then used to formulate a work program for the development of fisheries on prey ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/52 : Author(s): A.J. Constable and S. Nicol (Australia)

8. Comparison of the distribution of particulate matters and the composition of particulate organic matter in suface waters between the coastal and oceanic areas off the northern South Shetland Islands in summer

   nitrogen (PON), and chlorophyll a (Chl a) were measured in the surface waters (Author(s):  A. Shiomoto and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/18 : Author(s): A. Shiomoto and H. Ishii (Japan)

9. Distribution of phytoplankton in the mixed layer: implication of krill abundance

   Abstract:  The vertical trajectory of phytoplankton in the Antarctic ocean is modelled as a random ... walk with a diffusivity derived from a simple Ekman layer model and turbulence theory. The surface ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/26 : Author(s): United States of America

10. COLLAPSE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S PENGUINS IN THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY

    from about 56 000 pairs in 2001 to some 21 000 pairs in 2009, a loss of 35 000 pairs (>60%) in eight ... 000 pairs in 2003. In the Western Cape, numbers decreased from a mean of 35 000 pairs in 2001–2005 to ... , recent decreases in the Western Cape were greater than expected given a continuing high abundance of ... anchovy. In this province, there was a south-east displacement of prey around 2000, which led to a ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/P8 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, R. Altwegg, B.J. Barham, P.J. Barham, J.M. Durant, B.M. Dyer, D. Geldenhuys, A.B. Makhado, L. Pichegru, P.G. Ryan, L.G. Underhill, L. Upfold, J. Visagie, L.J. Waller and P.A. Whittington

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