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Experience with seabird by-catch limits in a trial of longline fishing in the Macquarie Island toothfish fishery
Abstract: The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) recently granted a permit for a ... trial of longline fishing in the Macquarie Island toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) fishery, which lies just ... outside the CCAMLR Area. Several threatened seabird species, including albatrosses and petrels have very ... fishing vessels. The seabird bycatch mitigation measures adopted for the trial included a ban on offal ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/19 : Author(s): T. Hewitt and I. Hay (Australia)
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A new approach to selecting Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean
Abstract: Conservation of the high seas marine environment poses a significant challenge to ... policy-makers and managers. Marine conservation efforts are often hindered by the lack of data and the ... difficulties in addressing multiple, and typically conflicting uses. The majority of extant Marine Protected ... MPAs has emerged on the international agenda as a critical issue requiring the application of novel ...
Meeting Document : WS-BSO-07/P3 : Author(s): Harris, J., M. Haward, J. Jabour and E.J. Woehler
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Improvements to the multiple-frequency method for in situ target strength measurements
Abstract: Refinements have been made to the multiple-frequency method that was recently developed ... to improve the accuracy and precision of in-situ target strength (TS) measurements using split-beam ... echosounders (Demer et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105(4) 2359:2376 (1999)]. The multiple-frequency method ... improves the rejection of unresolvable and constructively interfering target multiples by combining ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/38 : Author(s): D.A. Demer (USA) and M.A. Soule (South Africa)
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THE USE OF TRADE RELATED MEASURES IN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
Abstract: The use of trade-related measures, including catch and/or trade documentation schemes ... and the imposition of trade sanctions on vessels or Flag States failing to comply with the ... conservation and management measures of RFBs, has increased noticeably over the last decade. Experience has ... join RFBs and/or to co-operate in the implementation of the conservation and management measures of ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/37 : Author(s): Submitted by IUCN
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Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment – 2011 update
Abstract: This paper is the second update to CCAMLR and the ATCM since the publication of the ... SCAR Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE) report (Turner et al., 2009a). The ACCE report ... was a first step in compiling a comprehensive assessment of scientific information on the climate ... system and ecosystem responses to change in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean region. The present paper ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/14 : Author(s): Submitted by SCAR
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Assessment of green Notothenia (Notothenia gibberifrons, Lonnberg 1905) stocks in the Antarctic Peninsula subarea
Abstract: Biological characteristic and distribution of the green Notothenia by depth are given ... based on the results of inventory trawling surveys carried out in 1984/1985 and 1986/1987 by the BMRT ... "Gizhiga" in the Antarctic Peninsula subarea. Also presented are the abundance and biomass ... indices and the estimate of this species biomass by location and for the subarea on the whole. According ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/46 : Author(s): V.A. Boronin (USSR)
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Testing the performance of a recompiled version of TrawlCI to calculate confidence intervals of abundance in surveys of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari)
Abstract: A version of the confidence interval calculating program TrawlCI 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 TrawlCI produced very similar, though not identical, results to the original version ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-05/14 : Author(s): T.D. Lamb, W.K. de la Mare and A.J. Constable (Australia)
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Analyses of acoustic line-transect data from the waters around South Georgia: estimation of krill (Euphausia superba Dana) biomass
Abstract: A large-scale acoustic survey of zooplankton stocks of the waters around South Georgia ... was carried out during November and December 1981. The data have been analysed as a survey using ... various definitions of strata. The total biomass in the area of 155 786 km2 was estimated to be 1.8225 x ... 106 t (Coefficient of Variation = 9.5%). This gives an estimate of mean density throughout the region ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/30 : Author(s): E. Murphy, I. Everson and A. Murray (United Kingdom)
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Comments regarding a Marine Protected Area on the Southern Shelf
Abstract: The Marine Protected Area on the southern shelf of the South Orkney Islands (SOISS MPA ... ) established by CCAMLR in Subarea 48.2 on the initiative of the United Kingdom has existed for more then eight ... years (Conservation Measure СМ 91-03, 2009). However, there are still issues related to the scientific ... and legal aspects of this MPA that require clarification. The SOISS MPA is the first MPA established ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/26 : Author(s): Delegation of the Russian Federation
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Monitoring vessel traffic in the Ross Sea Region MPA
Abstract: Paragraph 24 of Conservation Measure (CM) 91-05 addresses the monitoring of vessel ... traffic within the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (MPA). Flag States are required to notify the ... Secretariat prior to the entry of their fishing vessels into the MPA. Vessels conducting scientific research ... activities on Antarctic marine living resources (AMLR) in or transiting the area are encouraged to inform the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/23 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA