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Stable isotope analysis of tissue samples to investigate trophic linkages of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross and Amundsen Sea regions
(Dissostichus mawsoni) muscle were measured to study the trophic connections of Antarctic toothfish in the Ross ... analysed, but only from the Ross Sea region. Appropriate corrections were made to account for the effect of ... lipid in muscle on δ 13 C in a way that did not compromise the accuracy of δ 15 N measurements. We found ... level; (2) δ 15 N values of toothfish on the Ross Sea slope were lower (~0.8‰ between medians) than in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/50 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, S.J Bury, J.C.S. Brown, J. Forman and A. Kilimnik (New Zealand)
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A characterisation of the toothfish fishery in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 from 1997–98 to 2014–15
Abstract: This report summarises the timing, depth, and location of fishing effort together with ... biological characteristics of the catch of Antarctic toothfish up to and including the 2015 season. In 2015 ... , the Ross Sea slope SSRUs were significantly constrained by sea ice and catches were unevenly ... distributed across the three SSRUs (73% in 88.1H, 22% in 88.1K and 5% in 88.1I). As in recent years, the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/36 : Author(s): K. Large, S.M. Hanchet and S. Mormede (New Zealand)
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Performance metrics to index the spatial coverage of mark-recapture data
Abstract: Understanding the spatial distribution of the release of tagged fish and the subsequent ... interpreting the biomass estimated from mark recapture data. In 2015, the Scientific Committee identified that ... measures of spatial overlap and potential bias in the development of tag-based biomass estimates are an ... new biomass-weighted spatial overlap summary statistics for tagging data. The method calculates two ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/13 : Author(s): C. Marsh, A. Dunn and S. Mormede
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METHODOLOGY OF EVALUATING THE AQUATIC LIFE RESOURCES
Abstract: ic life is developed in accordance with the rules of metrology, mathematical statistics ... and using the biocenological regularities of water objects. The basis of evaluating the stocks of ... water life was investigated through biocenotic conditionality in the areas of their equal probability in ... concentrations. The traditional method of squares in evaluating the stocks of water life was modernized with the ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/P02 : Author(s): L.A. Kovalchuk (Ukraine)
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Population dynamics of the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans at Marion Island: long-line fishing and environmental influences
Abstract: The subantarctic Prince Edward Islands (Marion and Prince Edward) support the largest ... breeding population of the Vulnerable wandering albatross Diomedea exulans. The numbers of birds breeding ... in the Marion Island population has fluctuated over the past three decades and appears to be the ... result of both real changes in the size of the population and changes in the proportion of the population ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/11 : Author(s): D.C. Nel, F. Taylor, P.G. Ryan and J. Cooper (South Africa)
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Report on the independent review of CCAMLR’s data management systems
as part of the on-going work of the Commission to ensure that CCAMLR’s information assets are ... data access and use, and in an efficient manner to authorised parties. The review focused on ... determining risks that are relevant to the organisation’s information assets, assessing system controls, and ... mitigating identified risks using an appropriate international standard as a benchmark. The review ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/05 : Author(s): Secretariat
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CCAMLR conservation measures: review of the numbering system
since 1984. However, the use of consecutive numbers does not provide information on topics covered by ... the measures, nor does it provide an implicit reference to the history of the measures. An improved ... numbering system is proposed which allows measures to be traced over the course of their history, contains ... information on the topics addressed by the measures, maintains a notation familiar to CCAMLR, and allows for ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXI/15 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Distribution of the Soviet fishing fleet and catches (CPUE) in Subdivision 48.3 during 1986–1990
Abstract: Analysis of the fishing fleet operation is one of preconditions of krill fishery small ... -scale management units determination. In this work the available data of haul by haul catch statistics ... for the Soviet krill fishery in subdivision 48.3 for 1986-1980 (15 thousand hauls) were analyzed ... . During the fishing season from April to September two basic fishing grounds with a quazi-stationary ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/63 Rev. 1 : Author(s): V.A. Sushin, P.C. Gasiukov, A.V. Zimin and S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)
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Subgroup on Assessment Methods: Report to the Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment 2002
Abstract: Over the last two years, discussions in WG-EMM, WG-FSA and the Scientific Committee ... . WG-FSA noted (paragraph 11.3, WG-FSA 2001) that there are substantial difficulties added to the work ... of the assessment subgroup when new quantitative methodologies are introduced and incorporated into ... assessments undertaken during the time of a single meeting of WG-FSA. Issues related to the current procedures ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/80 : Author(s): A.J. Constable (Subgroup Coordinator)
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Assessment models for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C–G for the years 2002–03 to 2010–11
Abstract: This paper describes the first Bayesian sex and age structured population stock ... , and G (SSRUs 88.2C–G). For modelling purpose, we split the region into two fisheries: south of 70.2° S ... fish are caught and most of the effort has been concentrated. For our reference case we used a selected ... trips data set and fitted to tag and fishery data from the northern fishery only. Model fits to the data ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/43 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)