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CCAMLR Strengthens Marine Conservation in Antarctica
setting catch limits. A feed-back management system for krill fisheries, using real-time abundance of ... and trends. A Special Meeting of the Commission will be held in Germany in July 2013, preceded by a ... in Antarctica In 2009 CCAMLR established a 94,000 km 2 MPA around the South Orkney Islands. This area ... through a combination of scientific and international policy work. Since then, further scientific research ...
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Fishery notifications
Exploratory fishery notifications Exploratory fisheries are those fisheries where there is a need ... Conservation Measure 21-03. Guidelines have been provided for Members wishing to submit a krill fishery ... Measure 21-02. New fishery notifications A new fishery targets a single species using a particular fishing ... method in a subarea or division for which: information on distribution, abundance, demography, potential ...
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Observer sampling requirements for Dissostichus spp.
48.2, 48.5, 58.4.4a, 58.4.4b, 88.3 D. mawsoni n/a 35 10 D. eleginoides n/a 35 10 48.6, 58.4.1 ... , 58.4.2, 58.4.3a D. mawsoni n/a 35 10 D. eleginoides n/a 35 10 88.1, 88.2 D. mawsoni n/a 35 10 D ... . eleginoides n/a 35 10 To help ensure that the work of observers is not unduly impacted by such operational ... changes, the sampling rate should be up to 7 fish per 1 000 hooks. As a practical procedure to achieve the ...
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Working Group on Statistics, Assessments and Modelling (WG-SAM)
introduced and incorporated into assessments undertaken during the time of a single meeting. As a result, the ... to provide time for a thorough evaluation of new assessment methods prior to their use at WG-FSA. In ... need for a specialist working group that could review technical assessment and modelling issues of ... consideration of a wider range of focus topics including: best practice from tagging programs and tag-based ...
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Fishing-related documents
Fish the Sea not the Sky (3.07 MB) is a guide for fishers to avoid by-catch of seabirds. VME ... Taxa Classification Guide (983.52 KB) provides a taxon-specific, quick, on-deck guide to aid in the ... Islands Benthic Invertebrates (6.01 MB) is a guide for scientific observers aboard fishing vessels. The ... Fishing gear library is a reference library being developed as part of CCAMLR’s work on vulnerable marine ...
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Chapter 7: Organisation and business practices of CCAMLR
institutionalised as a Scientific Committee Bureau, in order to formalise good practices to improve the efficiency ... ) Scientific Committee (2017) SC-CAMLR-XXXVI, paragraph 16.8 and Annex 12 Completed Recommendation 20: A ... ), whereas a strategy for meeting the requirements of 6 Article XV.1 (general science on Antarctic marine ... - term development of advice to the Commission, coupled with a review of progress against previous or ...
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Chapter 3: Role of CCAMLR within the Antarctic Treaty System
observers to the Committee on Environmental Protection and CCAMLR Scientific Committee follow a format ... debris and there is a proposal for a second joint SC-CAMLR–CEP workshop on climate change in 2023 ... the Commission: (i) establishing a practice of the CCAMLR Chair attending the ATCM and submitting a ... develop a report back to the ATCM as appropriate (iii) holding periodic joint meetings of CCAMLR and ATCM ...
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WG-FSA-12 Information Note
CCAMLR website and will be required to submit a digital passport-size photograph (jpg format) in order ... accordingly. The Secretariat’s policy for a greener office encourages the use of electronic documents whenever ... as well as on a USB, to be collected on arrival at CCAMLR Headquarters. Online registration will be ... . Participants should also note that participants who register online and require a visa to enter Australia must ...
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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
What is an MPA? In general terms, a Marine Protected Area (MPA) is a marine area that provides ... ecosystems, including the effects of climate change. CCAMLR has agreed to develop a representative system of ... MPAs based on the best available science and has also agreed a framework that describes the objectives ... once agreed they are described in detail in a CCAMLR conservation measure. The first CCAMLR MPA, and ...
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International Antarctic marine experts meet in Hobart
discussion. CCAMLR is a consensus-based organisation consisting of 26 Members (25 countries and the European ... acceptable outcomes to a range of challenges to take CCAMLR’s management of the Southern Ocean into the ... future,” said Dr Belchier. 2019 saw the completion of a large-scale survey for krill undertaken through ... the cooperation of a number of CCAMLR Members and including the participation of the krill fishing ...
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