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Antarctic krill populations in the outflow region of the north-western Weddell Sea
Abstract: A meso-scale zooplankton and krill net sampling survey was carried out in the north ... March 2013. The aim of the survey was to study the zooplankton composition and krill abundance and ... distribution in the outflow region of the Weddell Sea. Due to severe pack-ice conditions, more than half of the ... survey area was covered by ice during the summer season. Antarctic krill densities were found to be ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/24 : Author(s): V. Siegel (European Union)
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A preliminary population status model for the Patagonian toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides, on the Kerguelen Plateau (Divisions 58.5.1 and 58.5.2) using CASAL
Abstract: The Kerguelen Plateau (Statistical Divisions 58.51 and 58.5.2) supports the largest ... Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) fishery in the Southern Ocean outside of the Atlantic sector ... region. This paper describes the development of a CASAL model incorporating data from research ... , commercial and illegal fishing activities in the French and Australian EEZs. This represents a substantial ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/20 : Author(s): S.G. Candy (Australia), A. Relot, G. Duhamel (France), D.C. Welsford, A.J. Constable, T.D. Lamb (Australia), P. Pruvost and N. Gasco (France)
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ESTIMATION OF IUU CATCHES OF TOOTHFISH INSIDE THE CONVENTION AREA DURING THE 2009/10 FISHING SEASON
Abstract: ABSTRACT The paper presents an estimate of IUU catches of toothfish during the 2009/10 ... fishing season, using the standard, compliance derived methodology. The paper was revised on 4 October ... TOOTHFISH INSIDE THE CONVENTION AREA DURING THE 2009/10 FISHING SEASON BACKGROUND The Secretariat has ... prepared an estimate of IUU catches of Dissostichus spp. in the Convention Area for the 2009/10 season ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/06 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Oceanic debris observations in the southern ocean whale sanctuary, from Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea: December 1994 to March 1995
the Pacific section of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary from December 1994 to March 1995 are ... reported. Natural megalitter, mostly seaweed, was concentrated In the more northern latitudes near the ... start and finish of the expedition, especially near the Antarctic Convergence south of the Tasman Sea ... . Man-made megalitter was nowhere common, but was seen mostly near and to the west of the Antarctic ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVI/BG/29 : Author(s): ASOC Observer
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Report on seabird by-catch outside the CCAMLR Convention Area recorded in the South African fisheries
Abstract: Given Resolution 22/XXV, paragraph 3 concerning the mortality of Convention Area ... Seabirds to the north of the Convention Area and the request by IMAF, SC-CAMLR XXVII/15 (Para 4.3) to ... report these, this document provides an overview of the South African fishing sectors most likely to ... impact on these seabirds. A summary is provided of the recorded number of mortalities for each fishery ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-11/11 : Author(s): C. Heineken and P. Mullins (South Africa)
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A PRELIMINARY BALANCED TROPHIC MODEL OF THE ECOSYSTEM OF THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA, WITH EMPHASIS ON APEX PREDATORS
Abstract: We report on the development of a mass balanced carbon-budget trophic model of the Ross ... Sea as a step towards investigating ecosystem effects of the fishery for Antarctic toothfish ... (Dissostichus mawsoni). The model has 30 trophic groups representing all the major biota of the Ross Sea. Many ... of the lower trophic level species in the model are grouped by functional role because information is ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/42 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, J.M. Bradford-Grieve and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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A descriptive analysis of the toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) tagging programme in the Ross Sea up to 2005/06
Abstract: A descriptive analysis of the toothfish tagging programme carried out in Subareas 88.1 ... and 88.2 since 2001 is presented. The paper updates tag-release and tag-recapture data for fish that ... for non- New Zealand vessels for the first time. However, tag data were only available for all of ... . Tagging rates by area over the past three years have been in the same proportion as the catch by area ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-06/09 : Author(s): A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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Standing stock, spatial distribution and biological features of demersal finfish from the 2006 US AMLR bottom trawl survey of the northern Antarctic Peninsula and Joinville–D’Urville Islands (Subarea 48.1)
Abstract: During February-March 2006, the United Station Antarctic Marine Living Resources (U.S ... . AMLR) Program in collaboration with the German Federal Research Centre for Fisheries conducted a bottom ... trawl survey of the northern Antarctic Peninsula (southern Bransfield Strait) and Joinville/D’Urville ... Islands. This area included the likely historical fishing grounds of a trawl fishery for the spiny icefish ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/14 : Author(s): C.D. Jones (USA) and K.-H. Kock (Germany)
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Estimation of natural mortality for the Patagonian toothfish at Heard and McDonald Islands using catch-at-age and aged mark-recapture data from the main trawl ground
other model parameters in integrated assessments via CASAL for the Heard and McDonald Islands (HIMI ... . An alternative strategy was adopted whereby the catch-at-age and mark-recapture data were restricted ... to the main trawl ground in which the longest time series of catches and the great majority of ... years 1998 to 2008. A large proportion of the recaptures of fish released in this fishery were aged and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/41 : Author(s): S. Candy, D. Welsford, T. Lamb, J. Verdouw and J. Hutchins (Australia)
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Integrated stock assessment for the Heard Island and the McDonald Islands Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) fishery (Division 58.5.2)
eleginoides) at the Heard and the McDonald Islands (Division 58.5.2) with data until the start of August 2013 ... . Compared to the last assessment in 2011, this assessment updated the growth model and compared the effects ... stock assessment estimates and projected catch limits that satisfy the CCAMLR decision rules. Re ... -defining the fishery structure was based on a method by Candy et al. (2013) that suggested a simplification ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/24 : Author(s): P. Ziegler, S. Candy and D. Welsford (Australia)