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Population subdivision and distribution of Euphausia superba in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent waters in relation to fishery development
Abstract: Analysis of original and literature data for the past 10 years pertaining to the region ... -of the Antarctic Penunsula and adjacent waters points to a relationship between the distribution of ... krill and the waters of two major circulation systems- those of the Weddell Sea and the Bellingshausen ... Sea inhabited by separate subpopulations of the species. The latter are predominant in the region ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/21 : Author(s): Delegation of USSR
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Proposal of extension of research block 48.6_2 to complete planned research and examine the habitat model and the stock structure
Abstract: Here we propose the northeastward of research block of 48.6_2 along ridges to promote ... sufficient utilization of the catch limit, which enable us to complete planned research, evaluate the habitat ... model and elucidate stock structure. The distribution of densities (catch per haul in 20-minute grid) of ... Dissostichus mawsoni is shown in Figure 1. The research operation for the block 48.6_2 has been concentrated in ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/08 : Author(s): T. Namba, T. Ichii and K. Taki
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The incidence of plastic in the diets of Antarctic seabirds
Abstract: We investigated the diets of seabirds at sea in the Antarctic from 1976 to 1988. During ... the study period, on eight cruises in the Ross, southern Scotia, and Weddell Seas and Drake Passage ... , we collected or pumped the stomachs of 1,223 seabirds of 23 species. The stomach contents of species ... that feed below the sea surface contained little plastic, as expected; these birds live entirely on ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-X/BG/18 : Author(s): Delegation of USA
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REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE SEABIRD BYCATCH WORKING GROUP, HERMANUS, SOUTH AFRICA, 17-18 AUGUST 2008
Abstract: The Fouth Meeting of the ACAP’s Advisory Committee was held in Cape Town, South Africa ... from 22 – 25 August 2008. It was preceded by a meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG) on ... 17-18 August 2008. This paper provides a report on the SBWG meeting. The Working Group reviewed ... methods to reduce seabird bycatch in trawl fisheries, and noted that the body of work investigating and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/61 : Author(s): ACAP Seabird Bycatch Working Group
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INDICATIVE ESTIMATES OF BIOMASS AND YIELD OF WHITSON’S GRENADIER (M. WHITSONI) ON THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE OF THE ROSS SEA IN SUBAREAS 88.1 AND 88.2
being equal to 16% of the catch limit of Dissostichusspp. in these subareas. The 16% was based on the ... ratio of the by-catch limit for macrourids to the catch limit for Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.5.2 ... in 2002/03 (CCAMLR-XXI, para 11.53). The bycatch limit for macrourids in Division 58.5.2 had in turn ... been based on the extrapolation of catch rates from a trawl survey of M. carinatus on Banzare Bank. Two ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/32 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, D. Fu and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Scientific background document in support of the development of a CCAMLR MPA in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) – Version 2015- Part C: Data analysis and MPA scenario development
Abstract: Germany intends to present the Scientific Committee the scientific background and ... justification for the development of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Weddell Sea planning area. In ... accordance with the recommendations by WG-EMM-14 (SC-CAMLR-XXIII, Annex 6), this was done in three separate ... documents (Part A-C). SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/BG/15 (Part A) sets out the general context of the establishment of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/BG/17 : Author(s): Delegation of Germany
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RAPID WARMING OF THE OCEAN AROUND SOUTH GEORGIA,SOUTHERN OCEAN, DURING THE 20TH CENTURY: FORCINGS, CHARACTERISTICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LOWER TROPHIC LEVELS
Abstract: The Southern Ocean is known to have warmed considerably during the second half of the ... 20th century but there are few locations with data before the 1950s. In addition, assessments of change ... in this region are hampered by the strong seasonal bias in sampling, with the vast majority of data ... collected during the austral summer. However, oceanographic measurements near South Georgia span most of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P03 : Author(s): M.J. Whitehouse, M.P. Meredith, P. Rothery, A. Atkinson, P. Ward and R.E. Korb
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CIRCULATION IN THE ROSS SEA SECTOR OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN: REPRESENTATION IN NUMERICAL MODELS
Abstract: The circulation in the Ross Sea sector of the Southern Ocean is examined in three ... numberical models of intermediate to high resolution. Despite the model differences (including physics ... , forcing) the circulation representation is relatively consistent, both in terms of the mean and some ... aspects of monthly variability. This could point to strong bathymetric constraints on the circulation. In ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/41 : Author(s): G.J. Rickard (New Zealand), M. Roberts (United Kingdom), M.J.M. Williams, A. Dunn, M.H. Smith and M. Pinkerton (New Zealand)
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Trends of the Dissostichus eleginoides stock using the sequential population analysis (SPA) model in Subarea 48.3: 1992-1996
age data, for the evaluation of the state of the stock of Dissostichus eleginoides from the area 48.3 ... between 1992 to 1996. This, with the objective of knowing the results of management of this stock made ... under CCAMLR procedures. The model was programmed in a spreadsheet (Excel v.5) using the Solver function ... for the non-lineal calculus process. The application of this model, tuned by auxiliary information of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XV/BG/14 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia during the 2000 winter and the 2000/01 breeding season
Abstract: Results of the survey of entanglements of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South ... Georgia for the eleventh consecutive winter (2000) and thirteenth consecutive summer (2000/01) are ... reported here. The number of entanglements showed an increase from recent years, with 20 entanglements ... reported over winter and 22 during the summer breeding period. There were over three times more ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/03 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom