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1. Chilean NPOA-Seabirds: first steps

   Abstract:  The progresses in the developing of the Chilean NPOA-S are described. At the moment, an ... Executive and a Technical Group have been constituted. First steps taken had been the selection of ... mitigation measures to be applied; the design of experiments to test specific combinations of mitigation ... measures, and the discussion of the Objectives and Goals of the NPOA-S. The final draft of the NPOA-S will ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/14 : Author(s): C.A. Moreno and J. Arata (Chile)

2. Convention Area

   The Convention Area is described in the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ... Resources (74.48 KB) as consisting of all waters bounded by the Antarctic Continent to the south, and to the ... longitude; thence due south to 60°S latitude; thence due east to 50°W longitude; thence due north to the ... starting point. The Convention Area represents around 10 percent of the Earth’s oceans and has a surface ...

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3. SC-CAMLR-XIII

   Full Name:  Thirteenth Meeting of the Scientific Committee Location:  Hobart, Australia Date(s ... Provisional Agenda for the Thirteenth Meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic ... Marine Living Resources SC-CAMLR-XIII/02 Annotated Provisional Agenda for the Thirteenth Meeting of the ... Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources SC-CAMLR-XIII/03 Report of the ...

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4. System of Inspection

   To ensure vessels fishing in the Convention Area comply with conservation measures, CCAMLR ... implements a System of Inspection. CCAMLR’s System of Inspection was established in 1989 to support the ... comprehensive inspections of vessels by Contracting Parties. The System of Inspection provides for: procedures ... for the designation of inspectors the rights and responsibilities of Inspectors procedures for ...

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5. Orientation of Antarctic krill in an aquarium

   Abstract:  Acoustic methods appear to be the best way to estimate Antarctic krill abundance ... aquarium aboard the R. V. Kaiyo Maru. Average body orientation was 45.6° (SD = 19.6°, N= 67), which was ... would tend to reduce the reflected echo intensity when compared to animals swimming horizontally ... . Although mature females with marked swelling of the cephalothorax were not included in the experiment, the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/24 : Author(s): Y. Endo (Japan)

6. Entanglement in man-made debris of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South Georgia

   Abstract:  The incidence of entanglement in man-made debris by Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus ... gazella) at Bird Island, South Georgia, was monitored throughout the austral winter and summer of 1990/91 ... as part of an ongoing study by the British Antarctic Survey. A minimum of 8 seals were sighted ... entangled, 7 (88%) of which had their neck collars removed, during the winter months (April – October ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-X/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of UK

7. Non-Contracting Parties

   Non-Contracting Parties (NCPs) One of the objectives of the Catch Documentation Scheme (CDS) is to ... promote cooperation between CCAMLR and non-Contracting Parties (NCPs) in the voluntary implementation of ... the CDS. Without the cooperation of NCPs that trade in toothfish, the effectiveness of the CDS is ... participating in the CDS can cooperate with CCAMLR in several ways: by monitoring toothfish trade through ...

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8. Winter and summer foraging location of Adélie penguins from Mawson, Davis and Casey

   with a diet which is largely comprised of the fishery target species Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba ... ). Being central-place foragers during the breeding season, their foraging range is restricted by the ... foraging locations is relevant to WG-EMM in terms of understanding the spatial and temporal scales of ... influence on CEMP parameters as well as the management of the Southern Ocean marine living resources in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/08 : Author(s): L. Emmerson, N. Kokubun and C. Southwell (Australia)

9. Measurements of sound-speed and density contrasts of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) on board RV Kaiyo Maru

   Abstract:  In order to calculate the target strength of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) using ... -density contrasts between the animal and the surrounding water are required. Sound-speed and mass-density ... of krill were measured during the Antarctic surveys conducted by the Japanese RV Kaiyo Maru in 1999 ... density bottle method. The mean total length and the mean mass-density contrast were 43.5mm and 1.028 near ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/56 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Y. Takao, H. Yasuma, R. Matsukura, K. Amakasu and M. Naganobu (Japan)

10. Variability in krill length distribution in 48.1 derived from data collected by scientific observers

    Abstract:  Information on the length distribution of krill in the catch, and the spatial and ... temporal patterns of krill length in the population is essential to assess krill population status and ... dynamics, and the impacts of a fishery on the stocks. Here, we use generalised additive models (GAM) and ... generalised additive mixed models (GAMM) to evaluate the spatial and temporal patterns of length in Antarctic ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/16 : Author(s): P. Ziegler, S. Kawaguchi D. Welsford and A. Constable (Australia)

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