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A TALE OF TWO ISLANDS: CONTRASTING FORTUNES FOR SUBANTARCTIC SKUAS AT THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS
, continuing an apparent decrease in this species at Marion Island since the 1980s. There is no evidence that ... -Antarctic islands, and can be used to monitor the health of burrowing petrel populations. A survey of skuas ... at the Prince Edward Islands was conducted during December 2008, repeating a previous survey in ... km2) had a feral population of cats from the 1950s to 1980s, and still supports a large population of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P3 : Author(s): P.G. Ryan, P.A. Whittington and R.J.M. Crawford
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Diseases outbreak threatens Southern Ocean albatrosses
Abstract: Infectious diseases have the potential to cause rapid decline and extinction in ... vertebrate population and are likely to be spreading with increased globalisation and climate warming. In the ... Southern Ocean and in Antarctica no major outbreaks of infectious diseases have been reported, perhaps ... because of isolation and cold climate, although recent evidence suggest their presence. The major threat ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/32 : Author(s): H. Weimerskirch (France)
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CLASSIFICATION GUIDE FOR POTENTIALLY VULNERABLE INVERTEBRATE TAXA IN THE ROSS SEA LONG-LINE FISHERY
Abstract: Conservation Measure 22-06, in the absence of site-specific or other conservation ... Conservation Measure 22-06, in the absence of site-specific or other conservation measures ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/19 : Author(s): S. Parker, D. Tracey, E. Mackay, S. Mills, P. Marriott, O. Anderson, K. Schnabel, D. Bowden and M. Kelly (New Zealand)
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Distribution and size of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana) in the Polish commercial catches in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica in 1997–1999
the water, however, no clear evidence of vertical migrations was found. Between February and April ... Abstract: The distribution, density and length composition of krill in commercial concentrations ... were investigated in the regions of South Shetland, Elephant, South Georgia and South Orkneys in spring ... and summer 1997-1999. The concentration densities varied with area and season. The densest ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/13 : Author(s): E. Jackowski (Poland)
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SUMMARY OF NOTIFICATIONS FOR NEW AND EXPLORATORY FISHERIES 2010/11
58.4.1, 58.4.2, 58.4.3a and 58.4.3b (Table 1). There was no notification submitted for new fisheries in ... 2010/11 (Conservation Measure 21-01). The notifications were posted on the CCAMLR website and have been ... subsequently distributed as Commission working papers (CCAMLR-XXIX/22 to XXIX/31). The notification summary ... pages are appended to this report. 2. Members and the number of vessels notified for each exploratory ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/20 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Summary of toothfish tagging suitability data from paired Spanish line – trotline sets
only tag fish with a high probability of survival. Further it recommends that fish hooked only in the ... and operational effects would be useful in a multivariate analysis to identify the factors affecting ... simultaneously, the trotline configuration had a higher catch rate overall for Patagonian toothfish. However, the ... relatively higher trotline catch rates degraded for small fish (less than 70 cm), and showed no difference in ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/49 : Author(s): S. Parker and D. Fu (New Zealand)
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The diet of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella during the breeding season at Heard Island
present study no euphausiid remains were found, so the increasing population at Heard Island has been ... remains. Pelagic myctophids constituted more than 50% of fish taken by fur seals at the beginning of the ... summer season and again at the end when there was an influx of non-breeding male seals. During the middle ... period from October to December, fish from the surrounding shelf area comprised the bulk of the diet ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/53 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Age validation of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) from Heard and Macquarie Islands
consensus that the observed increments represent annual events, no direct validation has been provided for ... counting presumed growth increments on the sectioned face of sagittal otoliths. While there is a general ... this species. This study attempts to validate the annual increments using strontium (Sr) marked ... . eleginoides in the Heard Island and Macquarie Islands fisheries has included injection of most fish with ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/60 : Author(s): K. Krusic-Golub and R. Williams (Australia)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia during the 1994 winter and 1994/95 pup-rearing season
showing severe injuries was 33%, down on the 1993 winter. There were no animals entangled in packaging ... the fifth consecutive winter and seventh consecutive summer at Bird Island, South Georgia. The three ... animals entangled during the 1994 winter is the lowest number recorded since the winter surveys began ... , being 92% lower than in 1993 and 97% lower than the record 1992 winter. Nearly all animals involved were ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIV/BG/08 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Standing stock, biology, diet and spatial distribution of demersal finfish from the 2003 US AMLR bottom trawl survey of the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1)
. The standing stock for most species has fluctuated, with no signal of substantial year classes or ... Abstract: The United States Antarctic Marine Living Resources (U.S. AMLR) program has conducted ... bottom trawl surveys of the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1) during the 1998, 2001, and 2003 austral ... patterns from the 2003 survey is presented. The spatial distributions and standardized densities for ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/38 : Author(s): C.D. Jones (USA), K.-H. Kock, (Germany), J. Ashford, A. DeVries, K. Dietrich (USA), S. Hanchet (New Zealand), T. Near, T. Turk (USA) and S. Wilhelms (Germany)