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THE ROSS SEA: A CANDIDATE FOR IMMEDIATE INCLUSION IN A NETWORK OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS
Abstract: In the Southern Ocean fisheries are increasingly being exploited while the effects of ... , with initial inclusion of the well-researched Ross Sea, the area of the Southern Ocean having ... relatively little human interference so far. Under present climate change scenarios, it could be among the ... last stretches of the world’s oceans where sea ice remains an important part of the system. The Ross ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/30 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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THE APPLICATION OF CONSERVATION MEASURE 21-03 (NOTIFICATIONS OF INTENT TO PARTICIPATE IN A FISHERY FOR EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA) TO CONTRACTING PARTIES
Abstract: Australia is encouraged by the willingness of Members to support the orderly and ... precautionary development of the krill fishery as it continues to expand. Currently Contracting Parties as well ... as Members are able to participate in krill fisheries. This is different to the approach taken by the ... consistent approach to the management of CCAMLR fisheries (which CCAMLR is currently seeking to achieve) and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/37 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Variability of krill stock composition and distribution in the vicinity of Elephant Island during AMLR investigations 1988-1992
Abstract: Krill stock composition and distributional patterns in the vicinity of Elephant Island ... during austral summer 1988-1992 are described. Changes in both size and maturity composition over the ... five year period indicates strong recruitment from the 1987/88 and 1990/91 year classes and poor ... recruitment from the 1989/90 and 1990/91 year classes. Year class success may be related to the abundance of ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/12 : Author(s): V. Loeb (USA) and V. Siegel (Germany)
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Monitoring krill larvae at the Weddell-Scotia confluence
detected at the Weddell Scotia Confluence due to the presence of upwelling of larvae completing their ... developmental ascent. A number of quantitative variables reflect this phenomenon. As the position of the ... Confluence is fixed by the bottom topography interannual variability is geographicaly limited making possible ... to establish a monitoring programme aimed to evaluate the status of adult populations and recruitment ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/20 : Author(s): E. Marschoff, N.S. Alescio, D. Gallotti and G. Donini (Argentina)
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Prohibition of finning of sharks caught in the CAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: Conservation Measure 32-18 on the conservation of sharks prohibits “directed fishing on ... shark species in the Convention Area…” and calls for the live release of incidentally-caught sharks ... where possible. The measure is, however, silent on the practice of shark finning should incidental ... catches of sharks occur. The delegations of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, European Union and USA ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/24 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, the European Union and the USA
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Stock assessment of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) at South Georgia
Abstract: Recently a longline fishery has developed for the Patagonian Toothfish, Dissostichus ... eleginoides, in the vicinity of Shag Rocks, South Georgia. Assessment of this stock is not possible by ... conventional methods because the bulk of the adult population may be dispersed over a wide area in deep water ... whereas the Shag Rocks’ shelf may be a nursery ground for juveniles. An assessment of the stock has been ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-91/20 : Author(s): I. Everson (United Kingdom)
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Estimation of the incidental capture of seabird species in commercial fisheries in New Zealand waters, 2002/03
operations (95% dead). The trawl-caught seabirds were from at least eight target fisheries, four of which had ... ) trawl fisheries accounted for 87% of observed trawl-caught seabirds. Incident rates (expressed as the ... highest in chartered albacore tuna (T. alalunga) sets in northern waters (17%), compared with 10% for the ... observed chartered southern bluefin tuna (T. maccoyii) longlines off the southwest coast of the South ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/57 : Author(s): S.J. Baird (New Zealand)
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SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS IN THE CAMLR CONVENTION AREA FOR 2009/10 SEASON
cruises were conducted within the CAMLR Convention Area during 2009/10, with scientific observers ... (international and national) aboard all vessels. At the time of writing this paper, one cruise in subarea 58.5.2 ... undertaken in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 by 12 vessels. 3. Throughout this paper the data reported are those that ... have been collected by scientific observers and unless specified does not include data collected by the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/05 : Author(s): Secretariat
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CHINSTRAP PENGUINS: MISUNDERSTOOD AND VULNERABLE MONITORS OF ECOSYSTEM CHANGES IN THE SCOTIA SEA REGION OF ANTARCTICA
Abstract: Sea ice plays a critical role in structuring ecosystem dynamics throughout the Scotia ... area directly. A paradigm guiding recent research in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region of ... the SS, the “sea-ice hypothesis”, suggests that declines in the seasonal extent and duration of sea ... , 30 years of field studies in the WAP, coupled with more regional surveys throughout the Scotia Sea ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/17 : Author(s): W.Z. Trivelpice, J.T. Hinke, A.K. Miller, C. Reiss, S.G. Trivelpiece and G.M. Watters (USA)
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TOWARDS A SYSTEM OF MARINE SPATIAL PROTECTION FOR THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
Abstract: The region surrounding the South Orkney Islands has been identified by CCAMLR as one of ... following the pilot study, with the aim of generating products that can be used to inform decision-making on ... marine spatial protection for the South Orkney Islands region. It concludes that the method outlined in ... the 2008 pilot study is appropriate for more detailed planning. It goes on to highlight geographic ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/22 : Author(s): S. Grant, P.N. Trathan, J. Tratalos and J. Silk (United Kingdom)