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First Annual Report of the CCAMLR Otolith Network, 2002
Abstract: This report presents results from the first exchange of otoliths under the auspices of ... , from 23 to 27 July 2001. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Nelson, New Zealand ... ; Central Ageing Facility, Victoria Australia; and CQFE, each provided a sample of otoliths, processing and ... reading one randomly chosen otolith from each pair. Half of the remaining otoliths were sent to each of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/51
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THE DIET OF THE ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH IN THE ROSS SEA
Abstract: This brief review documents the species composition of prey consumed by the Antarctic ... by both frequency of occurrence and dry weight. P. antarcticum is 71% by occurrence and 89% by weight ... deep oceanic waters (60-70°S) north of the shelf break the diversity of pelagic and epipelagic fishes ... is low. Here the diet of D. mawsoni consists of relatively small squid of at least six different ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/16 : Author(s): J.T. Eastman and A.L. DeVries (USA)
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Using stationary acoustic platforms to assess precision and accuracy of acoustical krill surveys
issues of krill migrating too close to the surface to be acoustically detected, as well as potential ... issues of diel changes in acoustic scattering strengths. However, due to logistic constraints, acoustic ... effects of krill vertical distribution on survey results. The Institute of Marine Research, Norway has on ... the South Orkney Islands since 2014, and in this report some of these data have been analysed in order ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/32 : Author(s): T. Klevjer, G. Skaret and B.A. Krafft
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On commercial significance of krill aggregations
of acoustic investigation obtained in the Soviet trawler operation areas in Subareas 48.1-48.4 were ... numbering 22000 hauls for the period of 1986-1990 and those from Ukrainian trawlers for the period of 2001 ... and 2002 (2380 hauls). In the course of the recent twenty years, krill has been fished in the areas ... with biomass density of at least 100 g/m2. This threshold value of krill commercial biomass ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/31 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)
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Fishing for toothfish using pots: results of trials undertaken around South Georgia, March–May 2000
Abstract: During the period March to May 2000, the UK undertook trials of a pot fishing method to ... trial, the results, and discusses the commercial viability of this fishing method for toothfish ... of crab species. The catch rate of toothfish was notably lower than that achieved in the longline ... fishery. Importantly, the use of pots eliminated bird bycatch. To capitalise on this feature, there is a ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/23 : Author(s): D. Agnew, T. Daw, M. Purves and G. Pilling (United Kingdom)
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Catchability of midwater trawls in relation to krill fishery
estimation of total krill lengths distribution, obtained on the basis of trawl samples from different catched ... total distribution of krill length, obtained using weighting of trawl samples (usually 200 ind.) against ... the catch, may considerably differ (statistically significantly) from that calculated on the basis of ... trawling. The example of trawl samples processing for the study area off Elephant Island is presented ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/20 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)
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Data from recent trawl surveys in the vicinity of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Division 58.5.2), reveal an unusual cohort structure in the mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) population
Abstract: Surveys of mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, was undertaken in Division 58.5.2 ... in the vicinity of Heard Island during September 2010 and April 2011, to provide information on the ... population dynamics of this species, and to provide a basis for an assessment of short-term annual yield in ... the 2011/2012 CCAMLR season. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of yield for the area of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/22 : Author(s): D.C. Welsford (Australia)
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ACCURACY OF BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE BY-CATCH IDENTIFICATION BY OBSERVERS OPERATING IN THE HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS PATAGONIAN TOOTHFISH LONGLINE FISHERY
Abstract: As a means of testing the accuracy of observer identifications and to provide ... Antarctic Division (AAD). Observers displayed a high level of accuracy (89%) in the identification of ... longline invertebrate by-catch. Common taxonomic errors included the misclassification of stylasterids ... training in the classification of cnidarians (stony corals, soft corals and stylasterids) and coral-like ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/23 : Author(s): T. Hibberd (Australia)
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Interannual variation in the diet of the Antarctic prion Pachyptila desolata at South Georgia
Abstract: The diet of the Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata was examined using food samples ... was mainly crustaceans, with a small proportion of myctophid fish and trace amounts of cephalopods ... copepods, especially Rhincalanus gigas and Calanoides acutus, in two years of low krill abundance ... . Differences in the prey species taken and observations of foraging behaviour suggest that in years of low ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/12 : Author(s): Croxall, J.P., Edwards, T.M., Reid, K.
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Conditions for the precise measurement of fish target strength in situ
Abstract: Conditions for precise measurement of in situ fish target strength (TS) are empirically ... studied and two indexes are introduced for this purpose. One is the number of fish in the effective ... reverberation volume which contributes echo formation at a certain instant and the other is the percentage of ... the multiple echoes which is derived from a residual of the single echo extraction. With the decrease ...
Meeting Document : WG-Krill-94/35 : Author(s): K. Sawada and M. Furusawa (Japan), N.J. Williamson (USA)