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Conserving pattern and process in the Southern Ocean: designing a marine protected area for the Prince Edward Islands
Abstract: South Africa is currently proclaiming a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Exclusive ... Economic Zone (EEZ) of its sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. The objectives of the MPA are to: (1 ... to inform future management; (3) contribute to the recovery of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus ... eleginoides); and (4) reduce the bird bycatch of the toothfish fishery, particularly of albatrosses and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXV/BG/16 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa
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Fishes incidentally caught by Japanese Antarctic krill commercial fishery to the north of the South Shetland Islands in February 1997
Niitaka Maru were made from 1 to 23 February, 1997 to the north of the South Shetland Islands. Among 80 ... the bathypelagic families, the Myctophidae, Paralepididae and Scopelarchidae. Among by-catch fishes ... , Electrona antarctica of the Myctophidae was the most abundant. This species was found in 12 hauls, and its ... estimated value was 20 to 380 ind./t. The present by-catch data did not provide clear relationship between ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/72 : Author(s): Iwami, T., Ichii, T., Naganobu, M., Kawaguchi, S.
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Analysis of the longline fishery data in the Ross Sea (SSRUs 881B, C and G)
Abstract: The analysis of the toothfish fishery data in the northern part of the Ross Sea (SSRU ... 88.1 B, C and G) was performed using haul-by-haul data from the CCAMLR database for the period 1997 ... -2015. The variability of catch per haul (kg) and CPUE (kg/1000 hooks) depending on the hauling ... possible presence of number of high CPUE and catches, which are outside the upper limit of confidence ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/14 : Author(s): S. Kasatkina
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Some specific characteristics of Dissostichus eleginoides biology in the vicinity of the Kerguelen Islands (Division 58.5.1)
Abstract: For recent years Dissostichus eleginoids is the main target species of trawling and ... long-line fisheries in the vicinity of the Kerguelen Islands. Results of research made by the author on ... board the fishing vessel "Poltava" in the summer season 1991-1992 were the base for the ... present paper. Regular direct distribution of size groups D. eleginoides in depth range within the fishing ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/16 : Author(s): Pshenichnov, L.K.
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Subdivision of large CCAMLR Statistical Areas for the management of the krill fishery
Abstract: In this paper the boundaries of the CCAMLR statistical areas are examined for their ... relevance to the management of the krill fishery. A rationale for developing some new areas is developed ... based on data on krill distributions. The overall aim of the exercise was to reduce the large size of ... many of the existing statistical areas to the point where all areas where krill occur could be surveyed ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/24 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Diet of the cape petrel Daption capense during the post hatching period at Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica
Abstract: The diet of the Cape petrel Daption capense was investigated at Laurie Island, South ... Orkney Islands (60°46'S, 44°42'W), Antarctica, over the period January-February 1996. Stomach ... contents of adults and regurgitate of chicks were sampled during the post-hatching period. The analysis ... showed that during the whole sampling period Antarctic krill and fish represented the predominant preys ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/44 : Author(s): Montalti, D., Coria, N.R., Soave, G.E.
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Performance and geometry of the FP-120 trawl used during the UK 1993/94 fish stock assessment survey around South Georgia, Subarea 48.3
Abstract: Methods for the calculation of the horizontal opening (swept area) of a bottom trawl ... are discussed. Details of the Scanmar trawl monitoring equipment used for making in situ measurements ... of horizontal opening and headline height of the FP-1 20 trawl during the 1993/94 UK fish stock ... assessment survey around South Georgia on the MV Cordella are provided. Empirical equations are derived for ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-94/23 : Author(s): G. Pilling and G. Parkes (United Kingdom)
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An automated weighing and recording system as an aid for the study of the foraging ecology of Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae)
Abstract: A System that automatically weighs, identifies and determines the direction of penguins ... moving between their breeding colony and the sea is described. Data obtained from it for a complete ... colony (589 nests from which 412 chicks were fledged) and related to the foraging ecology of the Adélie ... penguin Pygoscelis adeliae are presented for the period hatching to fledging. These were obtained at ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/20 : Author(s): K. Kerry, J. Clarke and G. Else (Australia)
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Scientific background document in support of the development of a CCAMLR MPA in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) – Version 2015
Abstract: The delegation of Germany has submitted the scientific background and justification for ... the development of a marine protected area in the Weddell Sea planning area. In accordance with the ... /BG/15, /BG/16 and /BG/17). The Scientific Committee is invited to note that: Parts A and B of this ... further improved and extended, inter alia in the light of the recommendations made at WG-EMM 15 (report ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/13 : Author(s): Delegation of Germany
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State of the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean Climate System (SASOCS)
Abstract: The paper is a summary of a detailed review produced for submission to a scientific ... journal. by the SCAR Scientific Research Programme on Antarctica and the Global Climate System (S. Aoki ... , and C. Xiao), For access to the original paper please contact the SCAR Secretariat. This information ... paper provides a review of the key developments over the past two years in our understanding of physics ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVI/BG/37 : Author(s): Submitted by SCAR