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Conveners’ Report of the Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring
Abstract: The Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring was held in Punta ... Arenas, Chile (19-20 May 2016). A workshop report was prepared by the conveners (Dr Susie Grant and Dr ... Polly Penhale), and is provided in full below. The report was discussed at the Committee for ... ), and at WG-EMM-16 in Bologna, Italy (WG-EMM-16 Report, paragraphs 6.8 to 6.28). The CEP agreed that the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/07 : Author(s): Delegations of the United Kingdom and the USA
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Report of the UK groundfish survey at South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3) in January 2017
Abstract: 1. The 2017 UK groundfish survey took place over the South Georgia and Shag Rocks shelf ... on the FV Sil between the 30th January – 7th February 2017. 2. 72 random hauls were completed ... density was highest on the fishing grounds on the moraine banks of the NW stratum. 4. Clear regional ... Rocks, at low levels in the northern strata of South Georgia and more abundant in the Southern strata ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/44 : Author(s): M. Belchier, V. Foster, S. Gregory, S. Hill, V. Laptikhovsky, P. Lafite and L. Featherstone
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An interlaboratory comparison of ages estimated for Dissostichus eleginoides from the Argentine Sea, southwest Atlantic Ocean
the effects on readings of different otolith processing methods, scales and otoliths were taken from ... University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. (CQFE). As a consequence of the exchange of otoliths ... carried out with NIWA, and the results presented, it is apparent that the NIWA preparation method produced ... a clearer section. More hyaline bands were visible in the NIWA preparations, particularly near the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/45 : Author(s): M.C. Cassia (Argentina), P.L. Horn (New Zealand) and J.R. Ashford (USA)
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Peculiarities of icefish Champsocephalus gunnari (Channichthyidae) distribution in South Georgia area during the surveys made by STM Atlantida in 2000 and 2002
surveys made by STM “Atlantida” are revealed. Availability of large icefish concentrations in 2000 in the ... northwest shelf area in 10-100m layer resulted in formation of adult fish aggregations in water column. The ... the bottom even in dark hours of the day. During the two surveys, fry and immature fish occurred in ... numbers in pelagic zone. At present, the population mainly consists of immature and first maturing fish ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/55 : Author(s): Zh.A. Frolkina, S.M. Kasatkina and N.N. Zhigalova (Russia)
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An approach to feedback management (FBM) of the krill fishery based on routine acoustic data collection and intermittent land-based predator studies
Abstract: The conservation measure regarding (or stipulating) the interim distribution of trigger ... level in the fishery of Antarctic krill in Subareas 48.1 through 48.4 (CM 51-07) has continuously been ... renewed due the CCAMLR’s inability to establish an agreed, operational feedback management (FBM) approach ... . As the trigger level lacks any form of relationship with the actual stock condition this approach is ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/20 : Author(s): Delegations of Norway, China and Chile
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Towards an initial operational management procedure for the krill fishery in Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3
requires a basis for the assessment of resource status, and an algorithm for specifying the levels of ... regulatory mechanisms (e.g. a catch control law) that depends on the results of the assessment. Developing ... and selecting a procedure requires a basis for the simulation testing of procedures, and an ... . Suggestions are made under each of these headings. Assessment of resource status is provided by the CPUE " ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/17 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa
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Results of the groundfish survey carried out in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3 in January 2010
Abstract: In January 2010, the UK carried out the annual groundfish survey in CCAMLR Sub-Area ... 48.3 on the FV Sil. Seventy-five random hauls were completed with good coverage across the shelf ... , representing an increase in effort overall compared with surveys carried out in 2008 and 2009 on the same ... dominated the population, 2+ and 1+ sized fish were also present, and in larger proportions than in 2009. A ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/38 : Author(s): R.E. Mitchell, M. Belchier, S. Gregory, L. Kenny, J. Nelson, J. Brown and L. Feathersone (UK)
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CCAMLR Observer Training Program Accreditation Scheme (COTPAS) Technical Peer Review Group (TPRG) comments on the Australian Observer Programme Submission for COTPAS Accreditation
Abstract: The outcomes of the TPRG e-group report for the Australian COTPAS submission of its ... scientific observer training are presented. The report indicated that the information provided for each of ... the criteria either met or exceeded the standard required. It is recommended that the Scientific ... Committee endorse the outcome of the report and consider how an Accreditation Review Panel should be ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/BG/23 : Author(s): Chair of the Scientific Committee
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A condensed history and document of the method used by CCAMLR to estimate krill biomass (B0) in 2010
Abstract: Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are considered to be one of the key species in the ... harvested. The commercial exploitation of krill is managed under the direction of CCAMLR (Commission for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources), utilising results derived from the CCAMLR generalised yield ... of the krill yield model is an estimate of the pre-exploitation biomass of krill (B 0). The current ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/38 : Author(s): S. Fielding, A. Cossio, M. Cox, C. Reiss, G. Skaret, D. Demer, J. Watkins and X. Zhao
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Testing the performance of a recompiled version of CMIX to decompose length-density distributions of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)
Abstract: A version of the mixture fitting program CMIX was recompiled to enable it to be run ... within the DOS emulator of recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The performance of ... the recompiled version was compared with that of the original version. The recompiled version of CMIX ... produced very similar, though not identical, results to the original version. We attribute this to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/65 : Author(s): T.D. Lamb, W.K. de la Mare, A.J. Constable and C.R. Davies (Australia)