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Population dynamics of wandering albatross Diomedea exulans and Amsterdam albatross D. amsterdamensis in the Indian Ocean and their relationships with longline fisheries: conservation implications
Abstract: Studies carried out over the past three decades at Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the ... 1986 have shown slow recovery. The population of the endangered Amsterdam albatross Diomedea ... study of the Crozet population indicates that the earlier decline was mainly the result of increased ... band recoveries of non breeding birds indicate that during and outside the breeding season these ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/09 : Author(s): Jouventin, P., Brothers, N., Weimerskirch, H.
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Implementing Article II of the CAMLR Convention
Abstract: This paper presents a document written by Dr. Robert (Bob) Hofman and submitted to the ... 2015 CCAMLR Symposium in Santiago, Chile. Dr. Hofman was a member of the United States delegation ... during the negotiation of the CAMLR Convention. ASOC has provided some additional background for CCAMLR’s ... consideration. As a participant in the Convention negotiations, Dr. Hofman has an in-depth understanding of the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/25 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Influence of tag numbers, size of tagged fish, duration of the tagging program, and auxiliary data on bias and precision of an integrated stock assessment
collection, this study investigated how the bias and precision of a CASAL assessment is influenced by various ... aspects of a tagging program, in particular the effects of the numbers of fish tagged, the duration of a ... tagging program, the size of tagged fish, and the type of auxiliary data used in the assessment. The ... numbers were important particularly in the early stages of an exploratory fishery to ensure some ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/24 : Author(s): P.E. Ziegler (Australia)
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Breeding biology and diet of pintado petrels Daption capense at Bouvetøya during the summer of 1996/97
Abstract: A study on the breeding biology and diet of Pintado Petrels Daption capense was ... success for the total 300 pairs of breeding Pintado Petrels at Nyrøysa was 59 %. Three study colonies were ... was 85 %. Rates of failure were higher during the chick stage than in the egg stage for both of these ... two study colonies. The mean hatching date in these colonies was 11 January, and the first and last ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/56 : Author(s): Isaksen, K., Huyser, O., Dyer, B.M., Cooper, J., Ryan, P.
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Conveners’ Report of the Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring
Abstract: The Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring was held in Punta ... Arenas, Chile (19-20 May 2016). A workshop report was prepared by the conveners (Dr Susie Grant and Dr ... Polly Penhale), and is provided in full below. The report was discussed at the Committee for ... ), and at WG-EMM-16 in Bologna, Italy (WG-EMM-16 Report, paragraphs 6.8 to 6.28). The CEP agreed that the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/07 : Author(s): Delegations of the United Kingdom and the USA
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Report of the UK groundfish survey at South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3) in January 2017
Abstract: 1. The 2017 UK groundfish survey took place over the South Georgia and Shag Rocks shelf ... on the FV Sil between the 30th January – 7th February 2017. 2. 72 random hauls were completed ... density was highest on the fishing grounds on the moraine banks of the NW stratum. 4. Clear regional ... Rocks, at low levels in the northern strata of South Georgia and more abundant in the Southern strata ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/44 : Author(s): M. Belchier, V. Foster, S. Gregory, S. Hill, V. Laptikhovsky, P. Lafite and L. Featherstone
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An interlaboratory comparison of ages estimated for Dissostichus eleginoides from the Argentine Sea, southwest Atlantic Ocean
the effects on readings of different otolith processing methods, scales and otoliths were taken from ... University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. (CQFE). As a consequence of the exchange of otoliths ... carried out with NIWA, and the results presented, it is apparent that the NIWA preparation method produced ... a clearer section. More hyaline bands were visible in the NIWA preparations, particularly near the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/45 : Author(s): M.C. Cassia (Argentina), P.L. Horn (New Zealand) and J.R. Ashford (USA)
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Peculiarities of icefish Champsocephalus gunnari (Channichthyidae) distribution in South Georgia area during the surveys made by STM Atlantida in 2000 and 2002
surveys made by STM “Atlantida” are revealed. Availability of large icefish concentrations in 2000 in the ... northwest shelf area in 10-100m layer resulted in formation of adult fish aggregations in water column. The ... the bottom even in dark hours of the day. During the two surveys, fry and immature fish occurred in ... numbers in pelagic zone. At present, the population mainly consists of immature and first maturing fish ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/55 : Author(s): Zh.A. Frolkina, S.M. Kasatkina and N.N. Zhigalova (Russia)
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An approach to feedback management (FBM) of the krill fishery based on routine acoustic data collection and intermittent land-based predator studies
Abstract: The conservation measure regarding (or stipulating) the interim distribution of trigger ... level in the fishery of Antarctic krill in Subareas 48.1 through 48.4 (CM 51-07) has continuously been ... renewed due the CCAMLR’s inability to establish an agreed, operational feedback management (FBM) approach ... . As the trigger level lacks any form of relationship with the actual stock condition this approach is ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/20 : Author(s): Delegations of Norway, China and Chile
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Towards an initial operational management procedure for the krill fishery in Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3
requires a basis for the assessment of resource status, and an algorithm for specifying the levels of ... regulatory mechanisms (e.g. a catch control law) that depends on the results of the assessment. Developing ... and selecting a procedure requires a basis for the simulation testing of procedures, and an ... . Suggestions are made under each of these headings. Assessment of resource status is provided by the CPUE " ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/17 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa