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Designation of Marine Protected Areas in Antarctic Waters
Abstract: Over the last few years, the designation of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in Antarctica ... has been the subject of active discussion. This issue was widely discussed at the last meeting of the ... CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring (WG-EMM-12); it has been the subject of voluminous documents ... prepared by CCAMLR Members, and also workshop reports of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/29 : Author(s): Delegation of the Russian Federation
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Inter-annual variability in krill density at South Georgia: 1997–2012
, maintaining very large numbers of predators, and fluctuations in their abundance can affect the overall ... structure and functioning of the ecosystems. The inter-annual variability in the abundance and biomass of ... krill was examined using a 15 year time series of acoustic observations undertaken in the Western Core ... Box (WCB) survey area to the north of South Georgia, Southern Ocean. Krill targets were identified in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/14 : Author(s): S. Fielding, J.L Watkins, P. Trathan, P. Enderlein, C. Waluda, C. Goss, G. Stowasser, G. Tarling and E. Murphy (United Kingdom)
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Proposal for a longline survey on toothfish in Statistical Subarea 48.6 in 2017/18
Abstract: Norway proposes a plan to investigate the toothfish populations in the Statistical ... mapping, and the study will adhere to principles and guidance expressed in CM 41-01. In future years the ... aim is to expand the investigation and involve additional collaborating members. New Zealand has been ... contacted and discussions have started on collaboration from the 2018/19 fishing season. The expectation is ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-17/06 : Author(s): Delegation of Norway
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Impact of predation by Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus on Cape gannets Morus capensis at Malgas Island, Western Cape, South Africa
(Morus capensis) fledglings around Malgas Island in the 2000/01 breeding season, 11 000 in 2003/04 and 10 ... 000 in 2005/06. This amounted to about 29%, 83% and 57% of the overall production of fledglings at the ... sustainable. There was a 25% reduction in the size of the colony, the second largest of only six extant Cape ... seals on seabirds around southern African islands since the mid 1980s, coincidental with both an ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/9 : Author(s): A.B. Makhado, R.J.M. Crawford and L.G. Underhill (South Africa)
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Seal mitigation measures on trawl vessels fishing for krill in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3.
Abstract: At the 2004 meeting of the Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM ... ) in Siena, Italy, the UK reported on the by-catch of fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in the krill ... fur seal deaths in the fishery. WG-EMM requested that the UK provide further details of the methods ... employed for consideration by the ad hoc Working Group on Incidental Mortality Arising from Fishing (WG ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/P1 : Author(s): Charman, C., Clark, J., Hooper, J., Agnew, D.
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An attempt to derive a composite index of abundance from acoustic surveys and fishery data
Abstract: Maps of krill (Euphausia superba) density derived from acoustic survey data and the ... distribution of fishing effort in the Chilean krill fishery indicate an area of high krill density wrapping ... around the northwestern end of Elephant Island during the austral summer of 1992. In this area, the ... operations are limited by processing efficiency rather than availability of krill. Analysis of the acoustic ...
Meeting Document : WG-Krill-94/14 : Author(s): R.P. Hewitt (USA), V. Marín (Chile) and D. Demer (USA)
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Finfish research proposals for Subarea 48.6 and Divisions 58.5.2; 58.4.3a by Koryo Maru 11 for 2012/13
has contributed to the scientific rationale for ecosystem management in a large area of the Southern ... oceans. Recently South Africa also initiated a new research plan within its EEZ around the Prince Edward ... Islands that acknowledges the objectives of the Commission for the responsible management of Antarctic ... Marine Living Resources. The Koryo Maru 11 started with exploratory fishing in the CCAMLR Convention ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/21 : Author(s): R. Ball (South Africa)
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Report of vulnerable marine ecosystems in South Georgia Islands (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3) through research dredge sampling
Abstract: In this contribution we report the presence of 6 vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME ... ) around the South Georgias archipelago (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3). These areas, which are proposed for ... inclusion in the CCAMLR VME registry, were detected during a research cruise performed by the National ... Institute of Fishery Research and Development (INIDEP) and the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA) during ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/58 : Author(s): E. Gaitán, L. Schejter, D. Giberto, M. Escolar and C. Bremec (Argentina)
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Krill fishery report: 2006 update
Abstract: This report on the krill fishery in Area 48 has been prepared in a format similar to ... the “Fishery Reports” developed by WG-FSA in 2004. As reported to the CCAMLR Secretariat, 7 vessels ... from 5 Contracting Parties are fishing for krill in Area 48 in the 2005/06 season, and these vessels ... have taken 64415 t of krill to date. Two CCAMLR scientific observers have been deployed. The ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/5 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Diet composition of Antarctic toothfish
Abstract: To identify the important prey items for pre-recruit Antarctic toothfish in the SSRUs ... fishing vessel. In the previous studies, similarities in total FA compositions and the FA profiles in ... muscle tissue of Antarctic toothfish, bycatch specimen and icefish in the stomachs indicated a trophic ... connection between the toothfish and icefish. In this study, similarities in the δ13C values δ15N values of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/06 : Author(s): Delegation of the Republic of Korea