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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2005/2006
Abstract: The results of the eighth annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 2005/2006 summer season. There was 1 sighting of a seal ... wearing a neck collar of man-made debris. Data are compared with results from a parallel study undertaken ... at Bird Island, South Georgia in 2005/06. In the case of Bird Island, data indicated that the number ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/15 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2003/04
Abstract: The results of the eighth annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 2003/2004 summer season. There were no sightings of ... seals wearing neck collars of man-made debris. Data are compared with results from a parallel study ... undertaken at Bird Island, South Georgia in 2003/04. In the case of Bird Island, data indicated that the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2002/03
Abstract: The results of the seventh annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at ... sighting of a seal wearing a neck collar of man-made debris. Data are compared with results from a parallel ... study undertaken at Bird Island, South Georgia in 2002/03. In the case of Bird Island, data indicated ... that the number of entangled fur seals had decreased by 67% compared to the previous year, this being ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXII/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Krill catches and consumption by land-based predators in relation to distance from colonies of penguins and seals in the South Shetlands and South Orkneys
Abstract: Zones of 20 km width are defined around selected colonies of penguins distributed ... around the coasts of the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands. Krill catches in these zones are shown ... , probably as a result of oceanographic conditions. About 50% of the catch in Subarea 48.1 from December to ... March was taken within 40 km of the coast, and 90% within 80 km in all years 1988-1990. In 1987 and 1988 ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-X/BG/07 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Krill catches and consumption by land-based predators in relation to distance from colonies of penguins and seals in the South Shetlands and South Orkneys, 1987-1990
Abstract: Zones of 20 km width are defined around selected colonies of penguins distributed ... around the coasts of the South Shetland and South Orkney islands. Krill catches in these zones are shown ... result of oceanographic conditions. About 50% of the catch in 48.1 from December to March was taken ... within 40 km of the coast, and 90% within 80 km in all years 1988-1990. In 1987 and 1988 75% of the catch ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-91/25 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew (Secretariat)
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AMLR Hydroacoustic Survey System Description of Methods, A Case Study
Abstract: The AMLR hydroacoustic system used for surveys in the vicinity of Elephant Island and ... King George Island during 1987-1989 has hardware and software components. The method of analysis ... proceeds from the basic integration data (lm bins by 1min outputs) to the stratification of these data into ... blocks of area and finally a total estimate of abundance and statistical confidence limits about the ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-89/10 : Author(s): M.C. Macaulay (USA)
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Managing ecosystem uncertainty: critical habitat and dietary overlap of top-predators in the Ross Sea
Abstract: We summarize three types of data in order to increase appreciation among fishery ... managers of the close spatial and temporal ecological overlaps among top predators in the Ross Sea Shelf ... ): killer whale (type C), Weddell seal, Emperor penguin, Adélie penguin, and 4 species of flighted birds ... coast of Victoria Land from 1990 through 2004, we summarize the foraging ranges from these sites and the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/29 : Author(s): Testa, J.W., Stewart, B.S., Olmastroni, S., Lyver, P., Karl, B., Eastman, J., Barton, K., Ballard, G., Toniolo, V., Wilson, P., Ainley, D.
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Analysis of albatross and petrel distribution within the CCAMLR Convention Area: results from the global procellariiform tracking database
Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the distribution of albatrosses and petrels in the ... Procellariiform Tracking Database. The results highlight the importance of the CCAMLR area, particularly for ... breeding distributions of populations of Wandering, Grey-headed, Light-mantled, Black-browed and Sooty ... Albatrosses, and populations of both Northern and Southern Giant-petrel and White-chinned petrel. The ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/75 : Author(s): BirdLife International
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia, during the 2002 winter and 2002/03 breeding season
Abstract: Results of the surveys of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South ... reported here. The overall number of entanglements showed a decrease from last year of 55% in winter and 67 ... %. Severe injuries accounted for 33% of entanglements over winter and 25% during the summer. As in previous ... years, most individuals observed entangled in debris were juveniles (88% of winter and 81% of summer ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXII/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Review of fish and invertebrate by-catch in trawl fisheries in Division 58.5.2
Abstract: This paper presents estimates of the total removals of fish and invertebrate bycatch by ... 58.5.2. On average, 94 % of hauls in the D. eleginoides fishery and 93% of hauls in the C. gunnari ... fishery were observed. The percentage of observed hauls was used as a scaling factor to convert observed ... bycatch weights to estimates of total bycatch removed from the fishery. Bycatch in these trawl fisheries ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/46 : Author(s): E.M. van Wijk and R. Williams (Australia)