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Assessments of by-catch in trawl fisheries at Heard and MacDonald Islands
Abstract: This paper provides an assessment of the long-term annual yield for three species ... caught as by-catch in the commercial trawl fisheries in the Heard Island area (Statistical SubArea 58.5.2 ... undertaken with the aim of examining the potential for the commercial trawl fisheries to significantly affect ... the spawning biomass of these stocks in the longer term. The long-term annual yield for each of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/30 : Author(s): de la Mare, W.K., Williams, R., Constable, A.
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Defining smaller management areas within CCAMLR
Abstract: This paper discusses the principles required to develop of small-scale management units ... and highlights a work program in this development. It provides the theoretical foundation for ... considering the scales of management units involving the integration of local populations of harvested species ... , foraging areas of predators, fishing grounds and the potential influences of the environment, including ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/52 : Author(s): A.J. Constable and S. Nicol (Australia)
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Microbial study of toothfish tissue in Divisions 58.4.1 in 2014/15
Abstract: Dissostichus mawsoni, the Antarctic toothfish, is a local organism of the Southern ... Ocean. The fish is a member of the Notothenioidei, which lives in the sub-zero (-2 °C) continental shelf ... waters of Antarctica. The Antarctic toothfish are protected from freezing by the existence of antifreeze ... proteins in the tissue, which inhibit the ice making in the body fluids. In this project, we set a goal to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/32 : Author(s): Delegation of the Republic of Korea
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Gonad analysis of Antarctic toothfish in Subareas 58.4 and 88.3
Abstract: The ratio of female among the 600 specimens of Antarctic toothfish collected from the ... 58.4.1 area and 88.3 area within the CCAMLR Conservation Zone during February through March, 2013 was ... found to be 0.50, and displayed the tendency of increase with increase in the total length 140 cm. The ... gonadosomatic index of the fish was 2.5 for the female, and 1.7 for male. The hepatosomatic index of female ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/09 : Author(s): J. Kim, S.-G. Choi, J. Lee, J. Lee and D. An
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Seabird mortality on longlines in Australian waters: a case study of progress and policy
seabirds each year, and is now acknowledged as representing the most pervasive threat to seabirds ... , particularly albatrosses, causing widespread declines in populations across the world. However the extent of ... seabird mortality is poorly known for most of the world's longline fisheries. Information on bird ... bycatch in the Southern Oceans is best known for the Australian and New Zealand regions. The 10 year ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-98/29 : Author(s): R. Gales, N. Brothers, T. Reid, D. Pemberton and G.B. Baker (Australia)
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Evaluation of de la Mare’s composite standardised index for generating a simple time-series summary of many long-term datasets on Antarctic predators: consequences of missing values and criteria for inclusion of predator parameters
Abstract: In 1997, de la Mare presented a statistic (labelled the Composite Standardised Index at ... the Workshop on Area 48) to WG-EMM for generating a simple time-series index of many long-term ... datasets on Antarctic predators. The value of the index in a given year is dependent on the specific ... parameters present in that year. In this respect, the robustness of the index is dependent on that subset of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/45 : Author(s): A. Constable (Australia)
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East Antarctica Planning Domain MPA Planning Reference Document #3: Draft MPA Report Part 3 – Research and Monitoring (update of SC-CAMLR-IM-I/BG/01)
Abstract: This paper is Part 3 of an update of the draft MPA Report for the East Antarctica ... Planning Domain presented in paper WG-EMM-14/48 following advice from WG-EMM in 2014. The rationale for the ... research and monitoring in the East Antarctica Planning Domain and how this can form the basis of a ... research and monitoring program to support the East Antarctica Representative System of Marine Protected ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIII/BG/40 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia, France and the European Union
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SC-CAMLR work on Climate Change (Paper XP19 to CEP–SC-CAMLR Workshop 2016)
Abstract: ATCM 39/XP019 discusses the work of SC-CAMLR on climate change. It notes that the ... effects of climate change also includes the effects of ocean acidification. Articles II and IX provide ... the impetus for work in the Scientific Committee on the effects of climate change, in order to provide ... , in a timely manner, the ‘best scientific evidence available’ on three issues Risks of climate change ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/71 : Author(s): A. Constable
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Potentially commercial invertebrates on Ob Bank: Moroteuthis ingens (Oegopsida) and Paralomis aculeata (Anomura) (Division 58.4.4)
Abstract: The cephalopods of the Antarctic are supposed to have a very high biomass level However ... , they have not been fished nor any fishable aggregations of them detected to date in the CCAMLR ... Convention Area. The squid Moroteuthis ingens has been constantly present in bottom trawl catches on Ob Bank ... during aimed fishery for Lepidonotothen squamifrons. At maximum, the proportion of squid in the total ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/15 : Author(s): Pshenichnov, L.K.
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Distribution and abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) off East Antarctic (30–80°E) in January–March 2006
Abstract: Multifrequency echosounder data were collected during the 2006 BROKE-West summer survey ... of Division 58.4.2 for the purposes of estimating the unexploited biomass (B0) of Antarctic krill ... (Euphausia superba) and its associated coefficient of variance (CV). This paper updates the version submitted ... to WG-EMM in 2006 (WG-EMM-06/16) because a reanalysis of the data has resulted in amendments to the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/33 : Author(s): T. Jarvis, N. Kelly, E. van Wijk, S. Kawaguchi and S. Nicol (Australia)