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Antarctic fur seals in the South Shetland Islands: pup production and population trends
reports the results of a ground survey of all known fur seal colonies from Smith to Elephant Islands from ... %) and San Telmo Islands (21%). Dead pups accounted for 1.37% of the total. A comparison with previous ... censuses over a 15yr period (1987, 1992, 1994, and 1996) indicates the rate of increase in fur seal ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/51 : Author(s): M.E. Goebel (USA), V.I. Vallejos (Chile), W.Z. Trivelpiece, R.S. Holt (USA) and J. Acevedo (Chile)
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Distribution, demography and discard mortality of crabs caught as by-catch in an experimental pot fishery for toothfish in the South Atlantic
South Georgia of a method of fishing for toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) using pots. A significant ... belt 85% – 90% of crabs would survive discarding, whereas on the vessel where crabs were emptied down a ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/32 : Author(s): M.G. Purves (South Africa), D.J. Agnew, G. Moreno, C. Yau and G. Pilling (United Kingdom)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia during the 1999 winter and the 1999/2000 pup rearing season
here. Only six entangled seals were observed during the winter, representing a 53% decrease from1998 ... and a 94% decrease on the highest previous total (1992). Four of these animals wereentangled in ... plastic packaging bands, double that observed in the 1998 winter, and a return to thehigh levels observed ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/02 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1997/98
number of fur seals in total that came ashore during the season. Data are compared with results from a ... bands at Bird Island was higher than in recent years and there was a decrease in the incidence of net ... (nil at Bird Island), a slight drop (8%) from 1996/97. The decrease in observed entanglements is ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVII/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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BEACHED MARINE DEBRIS SURVEYS AND INCIDENCES OF SEABIRD/MARINE MAMMAL ENTANGLEMENTS AND HYDROCARBON SOILING AT BIRD ISLAND, SOUTH GEORGIA AND SIGNY ISLAND, SOUTH ORKNEYS, 2008-2009
Abstract: Surveys of beached marine debris at Bird Island, South Georgia recorded a total of 142 ... ) and summer 2008/09 (October 2008 to March 2009). Surveys at Signy Island, South Orkneys recorded a ... ; 61%) associated with wandering albatrosses. A total of 20 incidences of hydrocarbon soiling involving ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-09/09 : Author(s): C.M. Waluda (United Kingdom)
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The state of exploited fish stocks in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
1975/76 fishing has been mostly directed to the icefish Champsocephalus gunnari. and to a lesser extent ... over a period of 10 years. Stock size of C. gunnari around South Georgia is largely dependent on the ... recruitment indicate a downward trend. Author(s): Delegation of Federal Republic of Germany Title: The state ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/18 : Author(s): Delegation of Federal Republic of Germany
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Preliminary results on by-catch of fishes caught by the fishery vessel Chiyo Maru No. 3 to the north of the South Shetland Islands (February to March, 1996)
hauls examined, a total of 99 specimens belonging to 5 families and 14 species were captured as by-catch ... in 41 hauls. Notothenioid juveniles were found in 30 hauls carried out in waters with a depth of 87 ... in 11 hauls operated at some distance from the shelf, in the offshore waters with a depth of 275 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/52 : Author(s): Ichii, T., Kawaguchi, S., Naganobu, M.
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Towards an assessment of the stock of the ommastrephid squid Martialia hyadesi in the Scotia Sea: data from predators
% of which is taken by southern elephant seals, and the other species may take at least a further 51400 ... . Martialia probably has a life span of two years and a circumpolar distribution but its biology and ecology ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-IX/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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The State of Exploited Fish Stocks in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean in 1988
mostly directed to the icefish Champsocephalus gunnari and to a lesser extent Patagonotothen brevicauda ... which the fishery is unregulated so far. Stock size as well as recruitment indicate a downward trend ... availability of the most recent catch compositions to obtain a better assessment of the actual state of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-88/14 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock and F.-W. Köster (FRG)
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Analysis of variability of krill size and fish by-catch in Japanese krill fishery based on scientific observer data
–2008 were analysed by using a hierarchical Bayesian model. The models were composed of multistage ... cluster units (i.e., year, sub-area, vessel, cruise, and haul) based on a state-space model, separating ... objective of a study with considering the cost of observer deployment. Author(s): T. Okuda and M. Kiyota ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/68 : Author(s): T. Okuda and M. Kiyota (Japan)