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CCAMLR-IWC Export Group Report: Primary Productivity and Phytopalnkton
Abstract: This report summarizes the satellite ocean color (chlorophyll) data that are currently ... available, from missions beginning with the Coastal Zone Color Scanner in the late 1970s through to the ... SeaWiFS and MODIS sensors that have been providing data for the last ten years. The characteristics of ... their use in the Southern Ocean. A brief history of algorithms linking ocean color to primary ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-IWC-WS-08/13 : Author(s): Matear, R., Mongin, M., Lovenduski, N., Strutton, P.
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Principles for evaluating data collection plans in data-poor exploratory fisheries
faster than the acquisition of information necessary to ensure that the fishery can and will be conducted ... in accordance with the principles set forth in Article II of the Convention. However, several times ... over the last five years the Scientific Committee has noted with concern the lack of progress in ... of fishing increases the risk of over-exploitation of fish stocks. In this paper we articulate a set ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/08 : Author(s): P.E. Ziegler, D.C. Welsford and A.J. Constable (Australia)
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Interactions between cetaceans and fisheries in Southern Ocean
Abstract: Soon after longlining on Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) started in the ... Southern Ocean in the second half of the 1980’s, interactions of cetaceans with these fisheries became ... apparent. The two species primarily involved were orcas (killer whales) (Orcinus orca) and male sperm ... whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Both species took substantial number of fish from the line primarily ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/11 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany), M. Purves (South Africa) and G. Duhamel (France)
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Population numbers of fur seals at Prince Edward Island, Southern Ocean
Abstract: During the period 17–22 December 2001, the onshore distribution and the abundance of ... Prince Edward Island (46°38´S, 37°57´E). Two breeding colonies of Antarctic fur seals were located on the ... south-east coast of the island; the first a mixed (with Subantarctic fur seals) breeding colony with an ... estimated 24 pups on a vegetated promontory on the northern section of Boggel Beach, and the second, a ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/18 : Author(s): M.N. Bester, P.G. Ryan and B.M. Dyer (South Africa)
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Preliminary assessment of Patagonian toothfish in Subarea 48.3
presented. The assessment results from this year’s analyses are very similar to those of 2011. SSB in the ... terminal assessment year continues to be estimated at around 54% of virgin biomass, consistent with the ... CCAMLR harvest control rule. The 3-fleet assessment model provides slightly improved fits to CPUE data ... and to catch at age observations and achieves this by assuming a different selection pattern for the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/30 : Author(s): R. Scott (United Kingdom)
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Cooperation with other organisations: Arrangements with International Organisations
the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) and South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management ... restricted to exchange of reports and invitation to meetings. The Secretariat proposes that this be extended ... tagging program, and to cooperation with the CCAMLR Catch Documentation Scheme for Dissostichus spp. (CDS ... ), sharing CDS data and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) vessel lists. The Secretariat seeks a ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVII/10 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2004/05
Abstract: The results of the ninth annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 2004/05 summer season. There were two sightings of ... one case the entangling material had become attached to a rock and the animal was tethered to the ... ground. The incidence of entanglement at Signy Island, albeit very low, highlights the need for CCAMLR ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/18 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Towards a validation of ageing in mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) – can we estimate age more accurately?
ototlith exchange programme in the late 1980’s revealed considerable differences between readers when fish ... older than 3 or 4 years were aged. These differences could not be reconciled at the end of the exchange ... . A second age determination workshop on mackerel icefish to improve the accuracy of age determination ... was agreed upon at the last meeting of the ‘Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment’. Our report ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/23 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany) and Zh.A. Frolkina (Russia)
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Experimental acoustic survey of icefish resources in Subarea 48.3, 2005
Abstract: This report describes the activities and preliminary results of the research carried ... out during January 2005 onboard the FPRV ‘Dorada’ by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Scientists on ... behalf of UK authorities. Survey Objectives The primary objectives of the proposed survey were to ... : • Refine methods for estimating icefish biomass using acoustics. • Examine temporal changes in the vertical ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/79 : Author(s): M. Belchier, M. Collins (United Kingdom), R. O’Driscoll (New Zealand), S. Clarke and W. Reid (United Kingdom)
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CCAMLR Compliance Evaluation Procedure (CCEP) Summary Report and analysis
Abstract: In accordance with CM 10-10, paragraph 2(i), and the procedure detailed in COMM CIRC 19 ... /76, the Secretariat has prepared the Summary CCAMLR Compliance Report (Summary Report) based on the ... Draft CCAMLR Compliance Reports (Draft reports), responses received from Contracting Parties, and the ... suggested preliminary compliance status. The Draft reports identified 16 potential conservation measure ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-38/13 Rev. 2 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat