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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 1996/97
revealed a total of 289 items, 60 % less than in the two previous years. Of the total number of items, 62 ... use. The reduction in man-made debris compared to the two previous years may reflect a reduction in ... illegal long-line fishing activity around South Georgia. Such a relationship between the type and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVII/BG/7 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia during the 1997 winter and 1997/98 pup-rearing season
. Only seven seals were observed entangled in the winter, a drop of 59% from 1996. Four of these records ... were from adult females, a much higher proportion than in previous years. The number of entanglements ... a severe injury in the winter, no such cases were observed in summer. The summer observations were ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVII/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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CCAMLR TAGGING PROGRAM
tagging details of a greater proportion of tags than reported last year which has resulted in an improved ... inventories of these tags to the Secretariat (WG-FSA 08 paragraph 3.56). This request, including a tag ... information to provide these details as soon as possible. A copy of the tag inventory template can be obtained ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-09/04 : Author(s): Secretariat
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AND DOMESTIC SUBANTARCTIC FISHERIES BY THE AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION AND THE AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
complexity. Such a set of qualities is rarely available ‘off the shelf’. To ensure that observers in these ... Scientific Observation (SISO) and under domestic legislation, a system of performance management and data ... . Australia considers the use of such a performance management system to be essential in ensuring that high ...
Meeting Document : TASO-08/05 : Author(s): O’Regan, K., Welsford, D., Robertson, T., Lamb, T.
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Diet composition and observations on reproduction of Champsocephalus gunnari in Subarea 48.3 in March/April 1996, Dr Eduardo Holmberg survey
maturation stages showed that a high proportion of the mature fish sampled (79 %) were 1996 spawners, a fact ... which may be related with a large availability of food (= krill). It is suggested that krill was present ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/28 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Marschoff, E., Barrera-Oro, E., Casaux, R.
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Distribution of salps near the South Shetland Islands during austral summer, 1990/1991 with special reference to krill distribution
556 mgC•m-3 and was greatest at a station in the Bransfield Strait in late December 1990. Salp biomass ... high-chlorophyll a values, salps exhibited high biomass in the oceanic area with low chlorophyll a ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/54 : Author(s): Terazaki, M., Ichii, T., Kawaguchi, K., Nishikawa, J., Ishii, H., Naganobu, M.
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Research plan for exploratory fishing for toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) in East Antarctica (Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2) by Australia
rules remain to be determined for these Divisions. Accordingly, a research plan has been developed under ... Conservation Measure 41–01 to support a proposal for an Australian vessel to participate in exploratory fishing ... conjunction with fish biological measurements, tagging and aging, will be used to develop a stock assessment ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/10 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Preliminary report on the South Orkneys Ecosystem Studies (SOES) field work undertaken by RRS James Clark Ross (JR15004) and associated field camps in January–February 2016
formed a key component of the co-ordinated, multi-national South Orkney Ecosystems Studies focusing on ... behaviour of krill and its predators across a range of temporal and spatial scales using acoustics, nets and ... cameras. The research vessel data are linked to complementary studies undertaken from a commercial fishing ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/19 : Author(s): J. Watkins, O.R. Godø, S. Fielding, C. Reiss, P. Trathan and E. Murphy
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Describing krill: swarms or integration intervals?
may contain seabed aliased echoes and instrument cross-talk. Analysing acoustic data on a krill-swarm ... acoustic data and reduce post-processing time. Using a validated aggregation detection algorithm, I ... estimated mean areal krill density for a small (65 km by 60 km) survey conducted in the waters off Mawson ...
Meeting Document : SG-ASAM-17/02 : Author(s): M.J. Cox
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Pygoscelis penguin census in the Vernadsky Antarctic station area
species family, there is a significantly higher percentage of birds which not involved in the reproduction ... penguin in the region of research should be considered a sporadic settlement at a considerable distance ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/BG/06 : Author(s): V.M. Smagol, A.O. Dzhulay, I.V. Dykyy, G.P. Milinevsky and E.O. Dykyy