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A representative system of CCAMLR MPAs: taking stock and moving forward
Abstract: The adoption of the Ross Sea MPA in 2016 marked "the end of the beginning" of ... the CCAMLR MPA designation process started over a decade earlier. Additional MPAs will demonstrate ... that the Ross Sea MPA designation was not a one-off for CCAMLR, but rather one important step in ... establishing a representative system of MPAs in the Convention Area. This paper provides an overview of the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/BG/25 Rev. 2 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Species profile of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari)
Abstract: Mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) has been exploited since the early 1970’s ... and became the target species of fisheries in many parts of the low-Antarctic from 1975 to 1990 ... . Exploitation has been limited to South Georgia and Heard and McDonald Islands since the second half of the 1990 ... ’s with annual catches of a few thousand tonnes in each of the two areas. Aspect of the biology and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/12 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany) and I. Everson (UK)
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WG-SAM-18
arrive: Familiarise yourself with the functionality of the meeting server. Meeting documents Doc Number ... Title SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/01 Report of the Co-conveners of the CCAMLR Workshop for the Development of a ... -conveners (C. Darby (UK) and C. Jones (USA)) SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/02 Rev. 1 Summary Report of the CCAMLR ... Predicting fishing ground accessibility in the Antarctic Weddell Sea H. Pehlke, K. Teschke and T. Brey WG-SAM ...
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Video monitoring trial Avro Chieftain 2005 an interim report
monitoring system within 58.5.2. The initial results from the monitoring of the hauling are optimistic but ... need to be fully analysed against the observer data that was generated for the same period. There is ... confidence that the trial achieved the objectives required of monitoring the hauling but the results of ... monitoring the setting operation were unsatisfactory due to operational and technical limitations of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/74 : Author(s): B. Stanley (Australia)
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Stable isotope analysis of Southern Ocean fish tissue samples to investigate trophic linkages of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)
fishing vessels during the 2005/06 season in the Ross Sea CCAMLR Subarea 88.1 in order to investigate ... three trophic levels exist between icefish occupying the lowest trophic level, and Antarctic toothfish ... occupying the highest level. Some Antarctic toothfish sampled in this study occupied a similar trophic level ... according to their?15N signatures to killer whales and Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound, bluefin tuna in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/19 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, S. Bury, S.M. Hanchet and D. Thompson (New Zealand)
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Meeting information Acceding States
The CCAMLR Secretariat is delighted to be hosting the 31st meeting of the Scientific Committee. We ... hope you will find the following information useful to make your participation enjoyable. Rules of ... Procedure of the Commission (194.47 KB) (Rules 30-35) and the Rules of Procedure of the Scientific Committee ... (194.15 KB) (Rules 19-24) relating to the participation of Observers. Submission of papers to meetings of ...
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Variability and predictability of Antarctic krill swarm structure
Abstract: Swarming is a fundamental part of the life of Euphausia superba, yet we still know very ... little about what drives the considerable variability in swarm shape, size and biomass. We examined ... swarms across the Scotia Sea in January and February 2003 using a Simrad EK60 (38 kHz, 120 kHz ... ) echosounder, concurrent with net sampling. The acoustic data were analysed through applying a swarm ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P10 : Author(s): G.A.Tarling, T. Klevjer, S. Fielding, J. Watkins, A. Atkinson, E. Murphy, R. Korb, M. Whitehouse and R. Leaper
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Ross Sea Bioregionalisation, Part II: Patterns of co-occurrence of mesopredators in an intact polar ocean ecosystem
Abstract: We report results of analyses of niche occupation among mesopredators in the Ross Sea ... the surface of the ocean, 2) capacity to utilize differing amounts of the water column (foraging depth ... and Snow petrel. The apex predators, Leopard Seal and Killer Whale ecotype A/B, were not included ... ). Data on depth of diving and diet were taken from the literature. Three patterns of horizontal spatial ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/12 : Author(s): G. Ballard, D. Jongsomjit and D.G. Ainley (USA)
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ENVIRONMENTAL FORCING AND SOUTHERN OCEAN MARINE PREDATOR POPULATIONS: EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY
Abstract: The Southern Ocean is a major component within the global ocean and climate system and ... potentially the location where the most rapid climate change is most likely to happen, particularly in the ... include changes to the long interdecadal background signals such as the development of the El Niño ... opportunity to explore how biological communities respond to change. This approach is based on the premise ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P06 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan, J. Forcada and E.J. Murphy
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DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN CCAMLR: REQUIREMENTS FOR MINIMUM INTEGRITY TESTING TO ENSURE THAT DATA ARE FIT FOR PURPOSE
Abstract: The level of data quality assessment and ‘certification’ as ‘fit for purpose’ depends ... upon the different requirements for the data, together with a recognition that, however thorough a ... validation exercise the data are exposed to, there will always be some data that require some additional ... confirmation of their validity. In the context of CCAMLR, data may undergo one set of quality testing in order ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-09/05 : Author(s): Secretariat