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TOWARDS A SYSTEM OF MARINE SPATIAL PROTECTION FOR THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
Abstract: The region surrounding the South Orkney Islands has been identified by CCAMLR as one of ... following the pilot study, with the aim of generating products that can be used to inform decision-making on ... areas that might form the basis of further work, emphasising a number of questions that will help ... -XXVIII, describing a package of marine spatial protection and management measures that could be ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/22 : Author(s): S. Grant, P.N. Trathan, J. Tratalos and J. Silk (United Kingdom)
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Proposal for a joint workshop between the Southern Ocean Observing System and the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Scientific Committee consider a proposal to hold a joint two-day workshop between representatives of SOOS and ... Scientific Committee as having an important role in a number of areas of its work, including ecosystem ... 2.94), spatial management of impacts on the Antarctic ecosystem (SC-CAMLR-XXXV, paragraph 5.7), climate ... ). The report from SOOS this year (BG/14) indicates many activities of interest to SC-CAMLR, particularly ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/15 : Author(s): Submitted by SCOR
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Intra-annual variability in the abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) at South Georgia, 2002–2005: within-year variation provides a new framework for interpreting previous ‘annual’ krill density estimates
kHz) were deployed on moorings on- and off-shelf to the northwest of South Georgia to measure ... abundance of Antarctic krill continuously between 14 October 2002 and 29 December 2005. A distinct seasonal ... explained 71% of the observed week-week variation. Mooring estimates of krill abundance were not ... South Georgian western core box region between 1990 and 2005. Comparison of these ‘snap-shot’ ship ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/25 : Author(s): R.A. Saunders, J.L. Watkins, K. Reid, E.J. Murphy, P. Enderlein, D.G. Bone and A.S. Brierley (United Kingdom)
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Review of CCAMLR activities on monitoring marine debris in the Convention Area
Abstract: The current status of national surveys on monitoring of marine debris and their impact ... until recently. The number of debris items found has increased in the last season reported at Bird ... Island (2004), Signy Island (2005) and King George Island (2005). The majority of items found were ... packaging materials. The level of marine debris found in Grey-headed albatross, Black-browed albatross and ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/13 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Demography and population trends of the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
of breeding birds was strongly correlated between the two islands, and over the whole study period ... both study populations have trended downward at around 1.2% per year. The number of established ... breeders on Gough Island has declined more rapidly, and significantly, at an annual rate of 2.3 ... %. Monitoring established breeders maybe a sensitive means of detecting population trends. Average breeding ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/37 : Author(s): R. Cuthbert (United Kingdom), P.G. Ryan, J. Cooper (South Africa) and G. Hilton (United Kingdom)
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Proposal for a CCAMLR-sponsored research survey to monitor abundance of pre-recruit Antarctic toothfish in the southern Ross Sea
areas on the distribution, abundance and demography of Antarctic toothfish (D. mawsoni) has led to an ... estimate of the fisheries potential yield. However, one source of ongoing uncertainty in the stock ... that a time series of recruitments from a well designed longline survey could be a useful input into a ... establish the feasibility of developing a time series of longline surveys to monitor pre-recruit (<100 cm ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXX/07 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Winter distribution and condition of Antarctic krill in relation to sea-ice and water column production in the South Shetland Islands during Austral Winter 2013
Abstract: Acoustic and net sampling of Antarctic Krill and other euphausiids was conducted at 88 ... was expansive (north of 60 S around Elephant Island) and the sea ice concentration was mostly more ... than 50%. Observations of birds and mammals showed that many species were found in southwestern ... Bransfield Strait, associated with the high concentrations of krill, an area targeted by the krill fishery in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/13 : Author(s): C.S. Reiss, J. Walsh, K. Dietrich and J.A. Santora (USA)
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How similar are CEMP indices from adjacent locations? A case of study using Pygoscelis adeliae and P. papua monitoring data from three breeding colonies on King George Island
Abstract: What is the spatial scale of monitoring conducted at an individual CCAMLR Ecosystem ... species that are monitored at three sites on King George Island/Isla 25 de Mayo, within 30km of one ... another. We used five indices that fall under three main categories of census (breeders and chicks ... found evidence of and site- and species-specific differences that highlight heterogeneity in indices of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/43 : Author(s): M.M. Santos (Argentina), M. Korczak-Abshire (Poland), M.A. Juáres (Argentina), W.Z. Trivelpiece and J.T. Hinke (USA)
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An experimental approach for the Antarctic krill fishery: advancing management and conservation through the use of Krill Reference Areas and Krill Fishing Areas
to fishing, coupled with the use of Krill Reference Areas and Krill Fishing Areas. We use the ... characteristics, as the geographic and spatial basis for a set of differing treatments. We also consider the ... mainly associated with penguin research. We identify a number of treatments based on seasonal, or year ... approaches could be used to enhance ecological understanding of possible impacts (or lack thereof) of krill ...
Meeting Document : WS-SM-18/05 : Author(s): P.N Trathan and O.R. Godø
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Ageing two myctophid fishes using otolith from king and macaroni penguins in the Marion Island and its implication to feeding preference of penguins on those myctophids
distributed biological resources in the Antarctic waters, which are the important food sources of top ... predators, particularly penguins. However, the information on age of those fishes are very limited and ... of myctophids in the Antarctic ecosystem. Using the otolith samples collected from King and Macaroni ... penguins in the Marion Island, the present study examined the age determination and precision of age ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/74 : Author(s): M. Duan, G.P. Zhu, A. Makhado and L. Wei