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Extending ecological monitoring to underpin the development of feedback management approaches for the Antarctic krill fishery
Abstract: CCAMLR has agreed to consider and develop a feedback management approach for the krill ... fishery. Such a management approach may also require the development of a new or extended monitoring ... programme for dependent species, especially if the krill fishery is to operate over large spatial scales and ... in areas where no existing monitoring, including CEMP monitoring, is present. Here we consider some ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/04 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan (UK), H.J. Lynch (USA), C. Southwell (Australia), P.T. Fretwell (UK), G. Watters (USA) and N. Ratcliffe (UK)
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Review of the 2004 budget, draft 2005 budget and forecast budget for 2006
will be needed to pay for the full Implementation of the C-VMS. There is no overall increase in the ... Abstract: This paper presents, for consideration by the Commission, the projected outcome of the ... budget for 2004, a draft of the 2005 budget and an indicative forecast for 2006, presented in a format ... determined by the Commission at its 2002 Meeting. The budgeted expenditure for 2004 is not expected to be ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIII/04 : Author(s): Executive Secretary
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia, during the 2002 winter and 2002/03 breeding season
) accounted for the majority of all entanglements (81%); no entanglement in fishing nets was observed This ... Abstract: Results of the surveys of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South ... Georgia for the thirteenth consecutive winter (2002) and fifteenth consecutive summer (2001/02) are ... reported here. The overall number of entanglements showed a decrease from last year of 55% in winter and 67 ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXII/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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IS THE BYCATCH OF VULNERABLE INVERTEBRATE TAXA ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH CATCH RATES OF FISH IN THE ROSS SEA LONGLINE FISHERIES?
by fishing activities requires knowledge of the distribution of those communities relative to the ... locations. This study used the catch of VME indicator organisms reported during the 2008/09 Ross Sea ... on a set-specific basis. Analysis of the data available showed that vessel and longitude were ... significant factors in predicting the VME indicator organism catch rate. Toothfish catch, when forced into the ...
Meeting Document : WS-VME-09/07 : Author(s): Parker, S.J., Mormede, S.
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Accumulation of stranded plastic objects and other artefacts at Inaccessible Island, central South Atlantic Ocean
the survey made at the same site during 1984, when the highest density of artefacts at the Tristan da Cunha ... at the same site during 1984, when the highest density of artefacts at the Tristan da Cunha/Gough and Prince ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-VII/BG/04 : Author(s): P.G. Ryan and B.P. Watkins (South Africa)
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Operational difficulties in exploratory fisheries
Conservation Measures and regulations on Exploratory Fishery, and the actual on-site condition that limits ... Conservation Measures and regulations on Exploratory Fishery, and the actual on-site condition that limits ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/22 : Author(s): N. Miyagawa, J. Okamoto, N. Akimoto and K. Hirose (Japan)
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Preliminary analysis of seabird by-catch in the South Georgia icefish fishery
factors affecting the probability of a haul catching birds, but no significant factors were found that ... Abstract: We conducted a preliminary analysis on the numbers of birds caught as a bycatch in the ... 92 birds were caught, principally black-browed albatross and white-chinned petrel, with 93% of the ... could explain the number of birds caught. Differences in the numbers caught in the last three years also ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/30 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, N. Ansell and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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Age and growth of Antarctic Euphausiacea (Crustacea) under natural conditions
regressions. No difference in growth of krill were observed between the Antarctic Peninsula area and the ... Abstract: Five species of Antarctic euphausiid crustaceans were studied from the Antarctic ... Peninsula and the southeastern Weddell Sea. Life spans range from two years for Euphausia frigida to six ... years for the krill Euphausia superba. Growth in length and weight was calculated by non-linear ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VI/BG/24 : Author(s): V. Siegel (FRG)
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The development of Research and Monitoring Plan for CCAMLR MPAs
Abstract: Research and Monitoring Plan (RMP) is pivotal to the development and implementation of ... marine protected areas (MPAs). CM 91-04 requires RMP to be adopted by the Commission in that without a ... well-developed RMP, there would be no ways to acquire best scientific evidence available to inform ... management plan, regular review process and future decision making, let alone achieving the conservation ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVII/32 : Author(s): Delegation of the People’s Republic of China
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Autoliners and seabird by-catch: do line setters increase the sink rate of integrated weight longlines?
confer no sink rate advantage to IW longlines. Longlines deployed with a line setter enter the water ... vessels in the Kerguelen and Crozet Islands Patagonian toothfish fisheries to deter seabirds, ostensibly ... by expediting gear sink rates. A trial was conducted in the Ross Sea in 2007 to determine the ... longlines set with and without a line setter were identical, including in the first few metres of the water ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/13 : Author(s): G. Robertson (Australia), J. Williamson, M. McNeill (New Zealand), S. Candy (Australia) and N. Smith (New Zealand)