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Demersal fishing interactions with marine benthos in the Southern Ocean: an assessment of the vulnerability of benthic habitats to impact by demersal gears
Abstract: A collaborative project between Australian industry, the Australian Antarctic Division ... (AAD), Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), and the Fisheries Research and Development ... Corporation has been established to investigate the interactions between demersal fishing gears targeting ... Dissostichus spp. with marine benthos in the Australian EEZ of the Southern Ocean. Key outcomes of this project ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/30 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Geographical differences in the condition, reproductive development, sex ratio and length distribution in Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica (CCAMLR Statistical Subarea 88.1)
Dissostichus mawsoni over the four summer seasons from 2000-01 to 2003-04 aboard the autoliner San Aotea II ... have been analysed. Summer seasons are defined here as the period from mid December to the beginning of ... on the Ross shelf proper, as distinct from those sampled on the more isolated seamounts and features ... to the north.. These differences are fish body condition factor, reproductive development, sex ratio ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/28 Rev. 1 : Author(s): J.M. Fenaughty (New Zealand)
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Demography of Antarctic krill in the Lazarev Sea (Subarea 48.6) and the Elephant Island area (Subarea 48.1) in 2004
Abstract: Standardized krill net sampling surveys were conducted in the Lazarev Sea (Subarea 48.6 ... ) in April 2004 and in the Elephant Island area (Subarea 48.1) in January and February/March 2004 ... . Krill densities in the Elephant Island area were below the long-term average which mark a substantial ... decline after the good krill years in 2001 and 2002. Krill density was lower in the Lazarev Sea, even ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/23 : Author(s): V. Siegel (Germany), V. Loeb (USA), B. Bergström (Sweden), S. Schöling (Germany), M. Haraldsson (Sweden), J. Kitchener (Australia), M. Vortkamp (Germany)
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AND DOMESTIC SUBANTARCTIC FISHERIES BY THE AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION AND THE AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), with technical and data management support from ... the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Australian observers work on both trawl and longline vessels ... targeting finfish in the CCAMLR area. As the assessments and conservation measures employed by CCAMLR ... increase in sophistication, the tasks required to be completed by observers are increasing in number and ...
Meeting Document : TASO-08/05 : Author(s): O’Regan, K., Welsford, D., Robertson, T., Lamb, T.
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An updated glossary of terms relevant to the management of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) in the CCAMLR Area
progress a framework to manage the risk that bottom fishing in the CCAMLR Area may produce significant ... adverse impacts on certain benthic habitats, termed Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs). One of the ... identified intersessional tasks was to produce a glossary of terms relevant to the management of VMEs (SC ... -EMM 2010, paragraph 3.2-3.3). This paper updates the previous VME glossary to reflect the definitions ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/28 : Author(s): B.R. Sharp and S.J. Parker (New Zealand)
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Preliminary assessment of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) in the vicinity of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Division 58.5.2), based on a survey in July 2007, using the generalised yield model
58.5.2 in the vicinity of Heard Island in July 2007 to provide the information for an assessment of short ... -term annual yield in the 2007/2008 CCAMLR season. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of yield ... for the area of Division 58.5.2 to the west of 79o 20’ E using standard CCAMLR methods. Evidence of ... strong 1+ year class recruiting to the population has led to an increase in the estimated biomass of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/47 : Author(s): D.C. Welsford (Australia)
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Approaches to the simplification of the summary and presentation of CEMP data
Abstract: The current approach to providing advice on the status of the krill-centric ecosystem ... relies on the evaluation of statistical anomalies in the CEMP database. A new approach based on the ... ordination of variables according to functional groupings is suggested. This approach uses the methodology ... data to summarise the variability in CEMP parameters. Author(s): K. Reid (United Kingdom) and G ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/61 : Author(s): K. Reid (United Kingdom) and G. Watters (USA)
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The direct impact of fishing and fishery-related activities on marine life in the CCAMLR Convention Area with particular emphasis on longline fishing and its impact on albatrosses and petrels – a review
Abstract: Finfishing started in the Southern Ocean more than 30 years ago at South Georgia and ... Iles Kerguelen. The fishery extended further south for a few years in the second half of the 1970' ... ;s. However, South Georgia and the Kerguelen Islands remained the most important fishing grounds ... until 1996/97 when the longline fisheries for Dissostichus eleginoides spread over most of the Southern ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of Germany
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Updated impact assessment framework to estimate the cumulative footprint and impact on VME taxa of bottom longline fisheries in the CCAMLR Area
estimate the likely impacts of bottom longline fishing on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), as required ... by Conservation Measure 22-06. The most recent iteration of the impact assessment (Sharp 2010) was ... recommended in 2010 by WG-SAM (paragraph 4.16) and WG-EMM (paragraph 3.20) as the basis by which Members ... proposed bottom fishing activities, as well as the basis by which WG-FSA might complete cumulative impact ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/31 : Author(s): B.R. Sharp (New Zealand)
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Preliminary assessment of Patagonian toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides, in the vicinity of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Division 58.5.2), based on a survey in May–June 2006 using the Generalised Yield Model
58.5.2 in the vicinity of Heard Island in May-June 2006 to provide the information for an assessment of ... short-term annual yield in the 2006/2007 CCAMLR season. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of ... yield for the area of Division 58.5.2 to the west of 79°20’ E using standard CCAMLR methods. It also ... investigates the impact on the recruitment series and predicted yields of: i) excluding the unusually high ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/45 Rev. 1 : Author(s): D.C. Welsford, A.J. Constable, T. Lamb and T. Robertson (Australia)