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The distribution of spatial management and Antarctic krill catch across pelagic bioregions in the Southern Ocean
provide standardised and accessible information on the location and extent of spatial fisheries management ... measures in the Southern Ocean. We used the GIS in combination with catch data and the results of the 2007 ... CCAMLR bioregionalisation exercise to examine the relative spatial distribution of fishing activities ... , existing management, and ecological characteristics. Such analysis is a necessary part of systematic ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/15 : Author(s): S.M Grant, S.L. Hill and P. Fretwell (United Kingdom)
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Proposal for a SCOR Working Group to identify Ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables for measuring change in the biological properties of marine ecosystems
for measuring change in the biological properties of marine ecosystems” was developed by members of ... amongst members of the Science Steering Committee of the IMBER program, Integrating Climate and Ecosystem ... Dynamics (ICED) as part of the development of the ICED Southern Ocean Sentinel. The aim of the Working ... Group is to develop a set of essential variables for monitoring that would contribute to assessments of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/45 : Author(s): A. Constable (Australia)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1999/2000
Abstract: The results of the fourth annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... seals wearing neck collars of man-made debris. One additional sighting was of an animal that had been ... previously entangled but had lost its collar by the time of observation. All of the animals involved were ... juvenile males, the main component of the population at this time of year.The number of sightings was the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/03 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Report of the Steering Committee for the WG-EMM Workshop on Plausible Ecosystem Models for Testing Approaches to Krill Management
Abstract: This paper reports on the intersessional activities of the Steering Committee of the ... workshop at WG-EMM 2004. The overarching Terms of Reference are (i) to review the approaches used to model ... advance a program of work to develop and implement operating models to investigate the robustness of ... assessment systems. As agreed at WG-EMM in 2003, intersessional activities have included (i) provision of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/25
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Report on incidental bird mortality and effectiveness of mitigation measures during demersal long lining by Ihn Sung 66 in Subarea 48.3 - December 1993 to February 1994
Abstract: A method of surveying incidental mortality of seabirds during longlining operations and ... the effectiveness of mitigation measures is described. An alternative design of streamer line for use ... with the 'Spanish' method of longlining (separate hauling and fishing lines) is described ... . The results of observations of incidental mortality of seabirds made during the fishing operations of ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/14 : Author(s): C. Jones and G. Parkes (United Kingdom)
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Proposed methodology for the assessment of the exploratory fishery for Dissostichus spp. on BANZARE Bank (Division 58.4.3b)
Abstract: In 2006 the CCAMLR scientific committee noted several features of exploratory ... Dissostichus fisheries in the southern Indian Ocean (58.4) which gave cause for concern as to the status of the ... resource in this area, and the lack of a scientific basis for setting catch limits in these areas (SC-CAMLR ... Scientific Committee requested urgent consideration by Members on of methods for collecting of data and of ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-07/8 : Author(s): D.C. Welsford, A.J. Constable and G.B. Nowara (Australia)
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Preliminary assessment of mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, on the Heard Island Plateau (Division 58.5.2) based on a survey in April–May 2003
Abstract: A preliminary assessment of yield of Champsocephalus gunnari for Heard Island Plateau ... (Division 58.5.2) was undertaken using the standard CCAMLR methods, based on the result of a randomly ... stratified trawl survey completed between 16 April and 10 May 2003. The 2003 estimate of abundance was ... approximately 20% of the 2002 estimate. This decline in abundance is consistent with the passage of the strong ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/32 : Author(s): A.J. Constable, C.R. Davies, R. Williams and T. Lamb (Australia)
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A RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR AVOIDING SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACTS OF BOTTOM FISHING GEAR ON VULNERABLE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
adverse impacts of bottom fishing gear on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) are avoided. Due to the high ... levels of uncertainty surrounding both the evidence of VME presence and the consequences of interaction ... with different types of gear, a risk management framework is proposed, similar to that which has been ... used successfully by IMAF to minimise the effects of longline fishing mortality on seabirds. The aim of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/64 : Author(s): K. Martin-Smith (Australia)
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Summary of the toothfish fishery and tagging program in the Ross Sea region (Subarea 88.1 and SSRUs 882A–B) through 2017/18
SSRUs 88.2AB) together with biological characteristics of the catch of Antarctic toothfish through the ... 2018 season. Despite 2018 being the first year of implementation of the Ross Sea region Marine ... Protected Area, most of fishing effort was carried out in the historically fished areas. There was a small ... amount of effort in the northern area of SSRU 88.2A, which was opened to the exploratory fishery with the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/46 : Author(s): S. Mormede and S. Parker
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On acceptable scattering of longlines geo-referencing in the toothfish fishery in the CAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: The issues of longlines geo-referencing during the exploratory fisheries of the ... toothfish in the Convention Area are discussed. Cases of differences in the coordinates of settings and ... haulings are considered. The estimation of the maximum possible variation of the coordinates in the depths ... range of 550-3000 m was performed. It is shown that the differences of coordinates of settings and ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-2019/22 : Author(s): O. Krasnoborodko