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Status of WG-SAM reviews of research plans and research proposals and recommendations for streamlining
Abstract: Part of the remit of WG-SAM includes reviewing and providing advice to WG-FSA and the ... SC on the experimental design of research plans submitted under CM 21-02, and research proposals ... alone. The large volume of papers, lack of consistent format, lack of clear performance review criteria ... , and the lack of time available at the meeting made a meaningful review of each plan infeasible. To ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/14 : Author(s): Convener of WG-SAM and Chair of the Scientific Committee
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BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY SIGNY ISLAND, SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS 1996/97
Abstract: The seventh annual beach debris survey was carried out at Signy Island, South Orkney ... Islands during the 1996/97 austral summer. Debris was cleared each month between December and March from ... three study beaches, Cummings Cove, Foca Cove and Starfish Cove. The debris was counted, measured and ... were found at Starfish Cove. The total amount of marine debris collected from the three beaches was the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVI/BG/6 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Antarctic krill and climate change
on the impact of climate change and increasing fisheries on Antarctic krill and Antarctic ecosystems ... , and possible repercussions for resource management. The workshop was organised by the Institute of ... Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES) in the Netherlands, and funded by the European Commission ... and the Dutch government. The scientific evaluation focused on major agents of climate change, such as ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXX/BG/03 : Author(s): Delegation of the European Union
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Uncertainty in standard sphere calibrations
Abstract: In fisheries acoustics, the standard sphere method of echosounder calibration is most ... commonly used (Johannesson and Mitson, 1983; Simmonds et al., 1984). To investigate the uncertainty in the ... variations in the system gains of 0.3, 0.2 and 1.5 dB, respectively. Additionally, system gain values ... calibrated with the 30.5 mm Cu sphere were consistently lower than those with the 33.2 mm WC sphere. Prompted ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/70 : Author(s): Demer, D.A., Hewitt, R.P.
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Importance of myctophid fish distributions for formation of foraging areas of chinstrap penguins and Antarctic fur seals at Seal Island
to the incubation and guard period, respectively, for chinstrap penguins; penguins were divided into ... occurred on the shelf north of Seal Island. However, all predators except diurnal foraging penguins went ... northward beyond the shelf, and foraged in offshore region during Leg I and on slope during Leg II. The ... diurnal foraging penguins alone fed on the shelf. The following advantages are considered for feeding in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/87 : Author(s): Bengtson, J.L., Kawaguchi, S., Jansen, J.K., Takao, T., Meyer, W.R., Baba, N., Hiruki, L.M., Boveng, P., Cameron, M.F., Ogishima, T., Ichii, T., Naganobu, M.
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Scotia Sea Pygoscelid Penguin Tracking and Habitat Analysis Workshop
predators and the krill fishery was desirable throughout the Scotia Sea; it was recognised that such work ... environmental variables. Consequently, in May 2015, an expert meeting was convened to consider the utility of ... using tracking data to build habitat use and preference models for krill-eating penguins. The meeting ... considered that such models would be of critical value in the development of feedback management approaches ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/09 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom), J.T. Hinke (USA) and B. Lascelles (BirdLife International)
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Interannual variations of water thermochaline structure on South Georgia Island, South Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands shelves
Abstract: Basing on the analysis of major water mass boundaries and their thermochaline ... characteristics, T,S diagrams' typification has been realized for hydrological stations carried out in the ... been singled out for the area of South Orkney Isls. The first type was characterized by presence of ... intermediate cold layer. In some years of this type (1 97 1, 1972, 1978, 1982) the layer had positive ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/34 : Author(s): P. Chernyshkov, V. Shnar, O. Berezhinsky and I. Polischuk (Russia)
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FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS (HIMI) BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES: A GUIDE FOR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS ABOARD FISHING VESSELS
Abstract: At CCAMLR-XXVI the Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (WG-FSA) noted a lack of ... specific reference material for the identification of benthic invertebrates in areas specific to which ... observers carry out their activities (SC-CAMLR-XXVI: Annex 5, paragraph 6.32). To improve the standard of ... observer identifications and also to assist in the identification of vulnerable areas, the Scientific ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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CLIMATICALLY DRIVEN FLUCTUATIONS IN SOUTHERN OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS
of how biological and physical processes interact across a wide range of scales. Here we examine the ... role of physical and biological processes in generating fluctuations in the ecosystem around South ... Georgia in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Anomalies in sea surface temperature (SST) in ... the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean have previously been shown to be generated through ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P02 : Author(s): E.J. Murphy, P.N. Trathan, J.L. Watkins, K. Reid, M.P. Meredith, J. Forcada, S.E. Thorpe, N.M. Johnston and P. Rothery
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Algunos aspectos biologicos relevantes a la explotacion de la merluza negra (Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt, 1898) en la zona economica exclusiva argentina y sector oceanico adyacente
Abstract: This work aims to the study of the distribution, size structure by depth, first ... eleginoides) in the Argentine Sea, and atempts some explanation by a trophic analysis of such distribution ... . The distribution of Patagonian toothfish extends between of 36°30'S and 55°S from 80 to 2500 m ... depth. Greatest concentration areas were found south and NE of the Malvinas Islands, over the slope of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/49 : Author(s): Almeyda, S.M., Prenski, L.B.