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Preliminary analyses of data collected during experimental fishing for Patagonian toothfish in international waters of the southwest Indian Ocean (Area 51)
Abstract: Experimental fishing for Patagonian toothfish took place during the period from 28 June ... procedures, in a restricted area south of Madagascar and north of the Prince Edward and Marion Islands and ... the Crozet Islands, and outside EEZ and CCAMLR waters. A total of 57 sets were taken at between 360 ... and 1950 metres depth. The Patagonian toothfish appeared in all those sets carried out with values ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/19 : Author(s): L.J. López Abellán (Spain)
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Age-at-length of Patagonian toothfish from the Falkland/Malvinas Islands
Abstract: To provide an age-length key for use in modelling the age structure of the Patagonian ... toothfish stock around the Falkland Islands, we used otoliths to estimate the age of a sample of 1893 ... Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) captured by trawl and in the longline fishery. We used a thin ... section grinding machine to reveal a transverse plane through the otolith nucleus and between ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/74 : Author(s): J. Ashford, A. Arkhipkin, C. Jones and S. Bobko
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PENGUIN RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
to climate change, which disrupts penguin life history strategies when it alters the weather ... , oceanography and critical habitats. For example, in the southwest Atlantic, the distributional range of the ice ... -obligate emperor and Ade´lie penguins has shifted poleward and contracted, while the ice-intolerant gentoo ... and chinstrap penguins have expanded their range southward. In the Southern Ocean, the El Niño ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P09 : Author(s): J. Forcada and P.N. Trathan
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PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN OCEAN WHALE SANCTUARY: DEVELOPMENT OF A MANAGEMENT PLAN
Abstract: ASOC submitted a paper to the June meeting of the International Whaling Commission in ... Santiago outlining the reasons why the IWC, in concert with CCAMLR and other appropriate international ... bodies, should develop a Management Plan for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. This was made available ... as an Opening Statement in accordance with IWC rules. Following the IWC meeting, ASOC prepared an ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/29 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Review of Russian investigations of krill escape through the meshes of commercial trawls: approaches to estimating gross removal at krill fishery
Abstract: In this study the review of Russian investigations of krill escapement through the ... of fine-meshed chafers) and analytical methods are presented. The main factors affected on krill ... escapement though trawl netting and escape mortality are shown. The author discusses the results of these ... studies in two aspects: the problems and approaches to elaboration of the efficient methodology for the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/19 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)
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Preliminary plan for research and monitoring in the Ross Sea region, in association with spatial marine protection
accompany a proposal to CCAMLR for the establishment of a system of MPAs in the Ross Sea region in 2012. The ... distribution or ‘target area’ defining the geographic extent of the feature (e.g. key ecosystem processes ... objectives and priority features. Pursuant of each specific objective we identify the following categories ... of inquiry: i) research and monitoring to ensure that the boundaries of the priority feature as ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/57 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton and B. Sharp (New Zealand)
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Regionalisation of the Southern Ocean: a statistical framework
regions and/or ecoregions) in order to better understand the relative importance of ecosystem processes or ... for the purposes of managing human activities in relatively ecologically discrete areas ... regions. The Southern Ocean has been divided up into regions before, primarily based on frontal features ... . In this paper, we demonstrate a method developed for a regionalisation of the southern Indian Ocean ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/37 : Author(s): B. Raymond and A. Constable (Australia)
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Proposal to standardise the submission of meeting documents to working groups
Abstract: At the request of the Scientific Committee, the Secretariat has prepared a single ... reference document which provides guidelines for the submission of meeting documents to the Scientific ... Committee, WG-EMM and WG-FSA (including ad hoc WG-IMAF). In the Secretariat’s view, the guidelines would ... benefit from some standardisation of the Working Group-specific differences in relation to: submission ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/10 : Author(s): Secretariat
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AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION AND PARAMETERISATION OF THE SPATIAL MULTI-SPECIES OPERATING MODEL (SMOM )
Abstract: An updated version of the Spatial Multi-species Operating Model (SMOM) of krill ... advice regarding the subdivision of the precautionary catch limit for krill among 15 small-scale ... management units (SSMUs) in the Scotia Sea, to reduce the potential impact of fishing on land-based predators ... . The model includes krill as prey and four predator groups (penguins, seals, fish and whales) in each ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/17 : Author(s): É.E. Plagányi and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)
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Extension to the krill-predator modelling exercise
Abstract: The krill-predator modelling calculations of Thomson and Butterworth (1995) are ... extended to take account of a number of the suggestions made at the 1995 meeting of the CCAMLR Working ... Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management. The resilience of the Antarctic fur seal population to ... krill harvesting is found to be strongly dependent on the estimate of the maximum annual growth rate (R ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/67 : Author(s): Thomson, R.B., Butterworth, D.S.