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Circumpolar connections between Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana) populations: Investigating the roles of ocean and sea ice transport
Abstract: Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba Dana, has a heterogeneous circumpolar distribution ... in the Southern Ocean. Krill have a close association with sea ice which provides access to a ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/P10 : Author(s): S.E. Thorpe, E.J. Murphy and J.L. Watkins (United Kingdom)
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Effects of variability in prey abundance on reproduction and foraging in chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica)
. Adults faced with this uncertainty can mechanistically balance parental care by adopting a strategy ... –1992. Regional measures of krill density varied by a factor of 2.5 (47.0, 23.8 and 61.2 gm–2 in 1990 ... in response to decreases in prey abundance in a manner consistent with predictions of life-history ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/P6 : Author(s): D.A. Croll, D.A. Demer, R.P. Hewitt, J.K. Jansen, M.E. Goebel and B.R. Tershy (USA)
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Warp strike observations
summer of 2004 – 2005. The aim of the work was to test a new protocol for quantifying warp-strikes and to ... -specialist observers, to provide a robust and objective assessment of warp strike occurrence. The key results ... type • 106 dead or injured birds were recovered from the tows, a rate of 0.2 birds per tow (c. v. 13 ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/40 : Author(s): E. Abraham (New Zealand)
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An updated descriptive analysis of the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) tagging scheme in the Ross Sea for the years 1997/98 to 2004/05
. A total of 4903 Antarctic toothfish have been released and 89 recaptured, and 443 Patagonian ... (>35 kg) are difficult to tag without significant damage to fish, and there is be a trade-off ... growth rates predicted from the von Bertalanffy growth curve. Author(s): A. Dunn, S.M. Hanchet and K ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/34 : Author(s): A. Dunn, S.M. Hanchet and K. Maxwell (New Zealand)
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Larval development and spawning ecology of euphausiids in the Ross Sea and its adjacent waters in 2004/05
no juveniles occurred concurrently. Thus the slope does not appear to be a nursery ground for this ... . The intense spawning of E. crystallorophias and E. superb coincided with a period of development of a ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P06 : Author(s): K. Taki, T. Yabuki, Y. Noiri, T. Hayashi and M. Naganobu
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Estimating the impact of depredation by killer whales and sperm whales on longline fishing for toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) around South Georgia
line of a large number of toothfish, usually depressing CPUE by about 50%. Sperm whales occur in ... smaller pod sizes, normally between 1 and 4 animals and have a relatively lower impact on catches ... without the presence of cetaceans, accounting for other determinants of toothfish CPUE through a ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/P06 : Author(s): J. Moir Clark and D.J. Agnew
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Special requirements of Developing States
might include, but need not be limited to: (a) establishing a dedicated fund to support Developing ... States, and referencing the establishment and accessibility to such a fund in its literature and website ...
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The annual random stratified trawl survey in the waters of Heard Island (Division 58.5.2) to estimate the abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari for 2015
. The extra five hauls were part of a redesign of the survey on the main trawl ground which consisted of ... the survey was conducted on a new vessel, the FV Atlas Cove, following the retirement of the previous ... of 2014 and two and a half times that of the long-term average for the survey. The C. gunnari catch ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/11 : Author(s): G.B. Nowara, T.D. Lamb and D.C. Welsford (Australia)
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Standing stock, spatial distribution and biological features of demersal finfish from the 2006 US AMLR bottom trawl survey of the northern Antarctic Peninsula and Joinville–D’Urville Islands (Subarea 48.1)
. AMLR) Program in collaboration with the German Federal Research Centre for Fisheries conducted a bottom ... Islands. This area included the likely historical fishing grounds of a trawl fishery for the spiny icefish ... all species of demersal finfish in this region is currently not at a level for which commercial ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/14 : Author(s): C.D. Jones (USA) and K.-H. Kock (Germany)
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The applicability of international conservation instruments to the establishment of marine protected areas in Antarctica
, and thus include Antarctica within the scope of a worldwide system of marine protected areas. However ... establishment, the consideration of marine protection as a separate, but linked, issue to protection of other ... protected areas should be undertaken to achieve the goal of a global, representative system of MPAs, of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/30 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom