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1. Seasonal and interannual variation in foraging range and habitat of macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus at South Georgia

   Abstract:  In marine ecosystems, characterisation of the foraging areas and habitats of predators ... is a key factor in interpreting their ecological role. We studied the foraging areas of the macaroni ... penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus at Bird Island, South Georgia, throughout the breeding seasons of 1999 to ... between different stages of the breeding season, between sexes, between years and between individuals ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/21 Text : Author(s): K.E. Barlow and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

2. Increasing abundance of Type A killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the coastal waters around the Antarctic Peninsula

   and beyond into the South Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans (up to 3048 km from tagging site). Photographic ... into the South Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans (up to 3048 km from tagging site). Photographic re-sightings ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/49 : Author(s): H. Fearnbach, J.W. Durban, D.K. Ellifrit and R.L. Pitman

3. A review of methodologies aimed at avoiding and/or mitigating incidental catch of protected seabirds.

   published reviews in the field of bycatch mitigation have typically had a species or fishing method focus ... . This report presents the results of the seabird component of a global review of mitigation methods ... . The application of these mitigation methods to New Zealand fisheries were assessed, recommendations ... for the fisheries management made, and areas for further research in New Zealand identified. Factors ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/P8 : Author(s): Bull, L.

4. Marine debris and entanglements at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, Signy Island, South Orkneys and Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula 2013–2014

   Island, South Orkneys and at Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula for the period April 2013 to March 2014 ... items). There were no reports of beached marine debris at Goudier Island, and one incidence of ... hydrocarbon soiling (Bird Island) during the reporting period. Overall, the occurrence of beached marine ... debris was above the long-term mean at Bird Island during both summer and winter and was the second ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIII/BG/31 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

5. An evaluation of reduced target strength estimates reported for krill (Euphausia superba)

   on the same experiment and report new calculations of the target strength of krill (Euphausia superba ... assumptions made in calculating target strength. Whether the results of these papers are valid is critically ... important, given that they are being cited as a basis for increasing the estimates of krill standing stock ... in the Antarctic. The weaknesses in their data stem from the methods used to calculate target ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-90/13 : Author(s): M.C. Macaulay (USA)

6. Energetics of diving in macaroni penguins

   the mass-specific rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) while diving and investigation of the physiological ... adjustments that might facilitate the diving behaviour observed in this species. In common with other diving ... accounted for 36% of the variation in dive duration. When VO2 was calculated for dives of different ... durations, 95.3% of dives measured were within the calculated aerobic dive limit (cADL) for this species ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/39 : Author(s): J.A. Green, P.J. Butler, A.J. Woakes and I.L. Boyd (United Kingdom)

7. Conflict or co-existence? Foraging distribution and competition for prey between Adélie and chinstrap penguins

   between the two species, however, in a year of normal resource availability (2001) there was no such ... and ecologically very similar, have very similar diet and breed sympatrically in the Scotia Arc from ... the South Sandwich Islands to the Antarctic Peninsula. To investigate how these two species co-exist ... , their foraging distribution and diet were studied during the chick-rearing period at Signy Island, South ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/15 : Author(s): A.S. Lynnes, K. Reid, J.P. Croxall and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)

8. CCAMLR-XXXI Information note

   that there is no car parking available on the Headquarters site. If parking is required, please contact the Secretariat ... Please note that there is no car parking available on the Headquarters site. If parking is required ...

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9. e-cc-xxiii-a5.pdf

   ... Tuttle opened the meeting and all Members of the Commission participated. No Members invoked a ruling ... According to the criteria established in paragraph 10 of Conservation Measures 10-06 and 10-07, no ... . Non-Contracting Party vessels 2.19 Aldabra (Kenya) – The Committee could find no information to ... Vanuatu, no information on the start and end dates of fishing and no reports of monthly catches were application/pdf attached to:SCIC-04

   Meeting Report : SCIC-04

10. Fishery Report: Exploratory fishery for Dissostichus spp. in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2

    °E in the western Ross Sea, including Terra Nova Bay and McMurdo Sound (i.e. SSRU 881J west) be created ...

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