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Scientific contribution to the 2016 review of Conservation Measure 51-07: Part 1 – rationale, method and data for a risk assessment framework for distributing the krill trigger level
Conservation Measure 51-07, which is due to lapse at the end of the 2015/16 fishing season, and presented its ... undertaken to further develop a risk assessment approach to spatially subdivide the trigger level through an ... e-group and to deliver these outputs to Scientific Committee. The risk assessment approach for ... subdividing the trigger level in CM 51-07 aims to minimise the risk to predator populations, in particular ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/47 Rev. 1 : Author(s): A. Constable (on behalf of the e-group on CM 51-07 WG-EMM review)
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Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) programme: Preliminary report of the ICED–CCAMLR Projections Workshop, 5 to 7 April 2018
Abstract: Climate change will alter the structure and functioning of Southern Ocean ecosystems ... and affect the ecosystem services they provide. The impacts of climate change will require development ... population dynamics. A recent collaborative workshop between the Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics ... in the Southern Ocean (ICED) programme and CCAMLR brought together a range of ecologists, physical ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/09 : Author(s): E.J. Murphy, N.M. Johnston, S.P. Corney and K. Reid
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Modelling the predator–prey interactions of krill, baleen whales and seals in the Antarctic ecosystem
Abstract: The history of human harvests of seals, whales, fish and krill in the Antarctic is ... summarized briefly, and the central role played by krill emphasized. The background to the hypothesis of a ... krill surplus in the mid 20th Century is described, and the information on population and trend levels ... that has become available since the postulate was first advanced is discussed. The objective of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/34 : Author(s): M. Mori and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)
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Summary of the work of the CEP on Marine Protected Areas
Abstract: At CEP XIV (2011), the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat presented Secretariat Paper 6 ... “Summary of the Work of the CEP on Marine Protected Areas”. This paper reports on the development of the ... topic of Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s) in discussions of the Committee for Environmental Protection ... (CEP) since 1998. The most important discussions, including active cooperation with CCAMLR, began in ...
Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/04 : Author(s): Antarctic Treaty Secretariat, c/o Dr P. Penhale, CEP Representative to the CCAMLR MPA Workshop
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The diet of the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella at Harmony Point, South Shetland Islands: evidence of opportunistic foraging on penguins?
Abstract: The diet of non-breeding male Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella was ... investigated at Harmony Point, Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, by the analysis of 523 scats collected ... from January to March 2001 and 2002. The composition of the diet was diverse and both, pelagic and ... benthic-demersal preys were represented in the samples. Overall, the Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/11 : Author(s): R. Casaux, L. Bellizia and A. Baroni (Argentina)
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Problems and prospects for the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources twenty years on
Abstract: Twenty years after its adoption, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine ... considering the impact of existing or proposed fisheries on the entire ecosystem, rather than on just the ... harvested species. However, the recent picture of fisheries activities within the Convention area suggests a ... substantial – and perhaps widening- gap between theory and practice. The fishery that has most clearly proved ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XX/BG/18 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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BIOMASS ESTIMATES AND SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF DEMERSAL FINFISH ON THE ROSS SEA SHELF AND SLOPE FROM THE NEW ZEALAND IPY-CAML SURVEY, FEBRUARY-MARCH 2008
Abstract: during February and March 2008 as part of the International Polar Year. The main aim of ... the survey was to carry out a Census of Antarctic Marine Life in this regionfocussing on sampling the ... pelagic and benthic habitats on the shelf, slope, abyss, and seamounts in the Ross Sea region (CCAMLR ... Subarea 88.1). The shelf and slope were stratified by depth and at least three random trawls completed in ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/31 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, M.L. Stevenson (New Zealand), C. Jones (USA), P.M. Marriott, P.J. McMillan, R.L. O’Driscoll, D. Stevens, A.L. Stewart and B.A. Wood (New Zealand)
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On the problem of icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) vertical migration on the South Georgia shelf
Abstract: The results are presented of studying icefish vertical migration based on the data of R ... /V cruises during the seasons of 1982-83, 1983-84 and 1986-87, when this species was highly abundant ... on the South Georgia shelf. It is revealed that at day time the fish distributes near the bottom and ... the maximum catches were available at the middle of the light hours of the day. At twilight the fish ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-91/06 : Author(s): J.A. Frolkina and V.I. Shlibanov (USSR)
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Results of the Spanish exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 in the two previous seasons
Abstract: We addressed the revisions requested by the WG-SAM-14 regarding the results of the ... -SAM-14/09. A summary of the results of the Spanish research that took place in the 58.4.1 division ... during the last two fishing seasons is presented. A prospective estimation of the local biomass (B LOC ... ) of three SSRUs visited using the local depletion method, together with the extrapolation to the total ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/35 : Author(s): R. Sarralde, L.J. López-Abellán and S. Barreiro (Spain)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia during the 2001 winter and the 2002 breeding season
Abstract: Results of the survey of entanglements of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South ... Georgia for the twelfth consecutive winter (2001) and fourteenth consecutive summer (2001/02) are reported ... here. The overall number of entanglements showed an increase from recent years, with 20 entanglements ... reported over winter and 48 during the summer breeding period. The number of winter entanglements was same ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/04 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom