Search results
-
Scotia Sea Pygoscelid Penguin Tracking and Habitat Analysis Workshop
predators and the krill fishery was desirable throughout the Scotia Sea; it was recognised that such work ... environmental variables. Consequently, in May 2015, an expert meeting was convened to consider the utility of ... using tracking data to build habitat use and preference models for krill-eating penguins. The meeting ... considered that such models would be of critical value in the development of feedback management approaches ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/09 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom), J.T. Hinke (USA) and B. Lascelles (BirdLife International)
-
Interannual variations of water thermochaline structure on South Georgia Island, South Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands shelves
Abstract: Basing on the analysis of major water mass boundaries and their thermochaline ... characteristics, T,S diagrams' typification has been realized for hydrological stations carried out in the ... been singled out for the area of South Orkney Isls. The first type was characterized by presence of ... intermediate cold layer. In some years of this type (1 97 1, 1972, 1978, 1982) the layer had positive ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/34 : Author(s): P. Chernyshkov, V. Shnar, O. Berezhinsky and I. Polischuk (Russia)
-
FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS (HIMI) BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES: A GUIDE FOR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS ABOARD FISHING VESSELS
Abstract: At CCAMLR-XXVI the Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (WG-FSA) noted a lack of ... specific reference material for the identification of benthic invertebrates in areas specific to which ... observers carry out their activities (SC-CAMLR-XXVI: Annex 5, paragraph 6.32). To improve the standard of ... observer identifications and also to assist in the identification of vulnerable areas, the Scientific ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
-
CLIMATICALLY DRIVEN FLUCTUATIONS IN SOUTHERN OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS
of how biological and physical processes interact across a wide range of scales. Here we examine the ... role of physical and biological processes in generating fluctuations in the ecosystem around South ... Georgia in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Anomalies in sea surface temperature (SST) in ... the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean have previously been shown to be generated through ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P02 : Author(s): E.J. Murphy, P.N. Trathan, J.L. Watkins, K. Reid, M.P. Meredith, J. Forcada, S.E. Thorpe, N.M. Johnston and P. Rothery
-
Algunos aspectos biologicos relevantes a la explotacion de la merluza negra (Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt, 1898) en la zona economica exclusiva argentina y sector oceanico adyacente
Abstract: This work aims to the study of the distribution, size structure by depth, first ... eleginoides) in the Argentine Sea, and atempts some explanation by a trophic analysis of such distribution ... . The distribution of Patagonian toothfish extends between of 36°30'S and 55°S from 80 to 2500 m ... depth. Greatest concentration areas were found south and NE of the Malvinas Islands, over the slope of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/49 : Author(s): Almeyda, S.M., Prenski, L.B.
-
A krill–predator–fishery model for evaluating candidate management procedures
Abstract: The CCAMLR has recognised the need to subdivide the precautionary krill catch limit for ... Statistical Area 48 amongst smaller spatial units in order to minimize the localized depletion of krill in ... been defined, and six candidate procedures for subdividing the catch have been identified. It is now ... well as fishery performance. This evaluation must be conducted in the context of considerable ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/13 : Author(s): G.M. Watters, J.T. Hinke (USA), K. Reid and S. Hill (United Kingdom)
-
30 years of krill fisheries management – challenges remain
frequently. The reproduction and survival of krill are significantly affected by sea ice cover. This is of ... concern since key spawning, recruitment and nursery areas of krill are located in the Southwest Atlantic ... sector, an area that has been warming rapidly, resulting in a reduction in the extent and duration of ... winter sea ice. CCAMLR needs to maintain a precautionary approach to krill fisheries management. The ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/19 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
-
Alternative methods for determining subarea or local area catch limits for krill in Statistical Area 48
limit on krill (Euphausia superba) in Statistical Area 48. The measure also asks the Scientific ... Committee to provide the Commission with advice on how precautionary limits could be applied to subareas or ... evaluated relative to six criteria: 1) the degree to which information on biological relationships is ... considered, 2) the cost of data collection, 3) the reliability of required information, 4) the ease of ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/16 : Author(s): G. Watters and R.P. Hewitt (USA)
-
Discussion on recent results from an integrated assessment of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in Subarea 48.1
Abstract: This is a companion paper to Kinzey et al. (2014), who extended the integrated stock ... were pooled at annual, seasonal, and monthly time scales. The data were from research cruises ... conducted by Germany (RMT8 net samples from 1981 to 1989), the U.S. AMLR Program (IKMT net samples from 1992 ... from three of the models provide a robust picture of changes in the krill population. An annual model ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/35 : Author(s): G.M. Watters, C.S. Reiss and D. Kinzey (USA)
-
Uncertainty in acoustic surveys of Antarctic krill
acoustic surveys. The variance in system calibration with a standard sphere was evaluated in relation to ... bias was investigated by comparing the theoretical and actual target strength (TS) values of four ... different standard spheres with the results of a calibration by self-reciprocity (Demer and Hewitt ... , submitted). Combining the results of these experiments, the accuracy and precision of a system calibration ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/72 : Author(s): Demer, D.A.