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Destruction of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems by a rapidly increasing fur seal population
Abstract: The terrestrial environment of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic ... , is undergoing rapid and possibly irreversible change caused by a natural biological agent. During the ... past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus ... gazella coming ashore on the island during the short summers. It is not known whether significant numbers ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/06 : Author(s): R.I. Lewis Smith (United Kingdom)
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Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR workshop (2016) on climate change and monitoring
Abstract: The Committee on Environmental Protection and SC-CAMLR have endorsed the proposal to ... hold a second Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop in 2016. The agreed general scope of the workshop is to ... identify the effects of climate change that are considered most likely to impact the conservation of the ... Antarctic, and to identify existing and potential sources of research and monitoring data relevant to the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/18 : Author(s): S. Grant (UK) and P. Penhale (USA)
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A proposal to report marine casualties to CCAMLR
Abstract: The delegations of the United States and New Zealand propose to amend CCAMLR ... flag vessels operating in the Convention Area) to require an investigation in the event of a very ... serious marine casualty¹ involving a fishing vessel². Such investigation will result in the preparation of ... a report to be shared with the Commission. The proposal is consistent with Article 94(7) of the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/24 : Author(s): Delegations of the USA and New Zealand
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Developing robust biomass estimates and advice on catch limits in research blocks
Abstract: In 2016, changes to the methods used by CCAMLR to estimate biomass in research blocks ... resulted in conflicting estimates of biomass between the CPUE by seabed area and the Chapman estimate. The ... Scientific Committee requested that the changes to the methods be reviewed, that scientific rational for the ... that improves on the original CPUE by seabed area method for toothfish populations in research blocks ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-17/37 : Author(s): S.J. Parker, S. Mormede, A. Dunn, S.M. Hanchet and C. Marsh
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Calculating effective releases and recaptures for stock assessments based on tag detection and tagging mortality indices
developed using a methodology which controls for the spatial and temporal variability of fishing operations ... occurred in the same time and place (i.e. within a specific distance and in the same fishing season). The ... method showed that when the confounding effects of variable fishing location and time were controlled ... , there were nonetheless significant differences between vessels with respect to the tag detection index ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-14/30 : Author(s): S. Mormede (New Zealand)
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Aerobic dive limit: how often does it occur in nature?
Abstract: Diving animals offer a unique opportunity to study the importance of physiological ... constraint in their everyday behaviors. An important component of the physiological capability of any diving ... animal is it’s aerobic dive limit (ADL). The ADL has only been measured in a few species. The goal of ... this study was to estimate the aerobic dive limit from measurements of body oxygen stores and at sea ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/48 : Author(s): D.P. Costa, N.J. Gales and M.E. Goebel (USA)
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Linking fish and shags population trends
inshore demersal fish and Antarctic shags of the South Shetland Islands. The analysis is complemented with ... comparable information on diet, foraging patterns and breeding output of shags from the Danco Coast, western ... Antarctic Peninsula, an area that has remained out of the influence of the commercial fishery. Instead of ... climate change processes, indicated as responsible for the diminution of other bird populations, the most ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/36 : Author(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina)
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Linking fish and shags population trends
inshore demersal fish and Antarctic shags of the South Shetland Islands. The analysis is complemented with ... comparable information on diet, foraging patterns and breeding output of shags from the Danco Coast, western ... Antarctic Peninsula, an area that has remained out of the influence of the commercial fishery. Instead of ... climate change processes, indicated as responsible for the diminution of other bird populations, the most ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/05 : Author(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina)
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Summer survey of fur seals at Prince Edward Island, southern Indian Ocean
Abstract: The onshore distributions and the abundances of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus ... December 2008. This repeats a survey conducted in December 2001 and extends the area surveyed to include ... the entire south-west coast of Prince Edward Island. Of the two colonies of Antarctic fur seals, the ... Subantarctic fur seals and putative hybrids. The other Antarctic fur seal breeding colony at Penguin Beach ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P15 : Author(s): M.N. Bester, P.G. Ryan and J. Visagie
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REPORT OF SANCTIONS APPLIED BY SPAIN
Abstract: Ministry for the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs Executive Secretary CCAMLR ... the action taken by Spanish Authorities in relation to the vessels Trosky (formerly Paloma V), Chilbo ... San 33 and Corvus, included in the CCAMLR-IUU list. 1. With regard to the vessels Corvus and Chilbo ... San 33, neither of them flagged to Spain – which were included in the CCAMLR list of illegal vessels ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/37 : Author(s): Delegation of Spain