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Short note: time series of Drake Passage Oscillation Index (DPOI) from 1952 to 1988
hypothesized environmental factors; strength of westerly winds (westerlies) determined from sea-level pressure ... series of DPOI using historical data. We searched the historical data and found the time series since the ... 1950s until 1988 at the Web sites of the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre for Rio Gallegos and ... of DPOI from 1952 to 1988 at this stage. Time series since 1988 will be soon calculated after ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/44 : Author(s): M. Naganobu and K. Kutsuwada (Japan)
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An assessment of toothfish in Subarea 48.3 using CASAL
Abstract: The CASAL software has been successfully applied to an assessment of the stock of ... , with an extensive range of sensitivity tests and examination of diagnostics. A baseline assessment ... 45,893 t, and the spawning stock biomass was estimated to be 120,360 t, around 67% of its unexploited ... 49,943 t, and the spawning stock biomass was estimated to be 100657 t, some 64% of its unexploited level ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/16 : Author(s): R.M. Hillary, G.P. Kirkwood and D.J. Agnew (United Kingdom)
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Using production models to assess the stock of Paralomis spinosissima around South Georgia Island
Abstract: Four production models were fit to a time series of daily catch per unit effort (CPUE ... recruitment function. The best fitting model was Model 1. Model 1 had three parameters: an estimate of initial ... abundance (N0), an estimate of the scaling coefficient relating abundance to CPUE (q), and a recruitment ... removals should not be greater than the number of crabs that recruit to the fishery during the course of a ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-93/23 : Author(s): George Watters (USA)
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Microincrement analysis in otoliths of Notothenia rossii fingerlings from the South Shetland Islands to estimate early life history timings and to validate annulus formation
phase fingerlings selected from a total sample of 364 early juveniles caught mainly in summer from 2003 ... date of capture showed two main periods of larval hatching separated by 5-6 months, one in late summer ... , indicating a timing of demersal settlement of about eight months from hatching. The age/length frequency ... distribution of fish sampled in spring 2010 showed the simultaneous presence of two different cohorts ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/04 : Author(s): E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina) and M. La Mesa (Italy)
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A spatially explicit population dynamics operating model for Antarctic toothfish in the habitable depths of the Ross Sea region
% of the depth is deemed suitable as habitat for toothfish (120 cells – semi-restricted model), and ... – restricted model) or allowed to occupy the entire Ross Sea region including depths outside of those normally ... about the distribution of toothfish in areas where no fishing has occurred, such that the unrestricted ... model estimates fish movements into cells outside of the fished area including those with implausible ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/53 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn, S. Parker and S. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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Blue-eyed shags as indicators of changes in ittora fish populations
Abstract: The use of Shag’s pellets as an appropriate technique to monitor the abundance of ... littoral fish populations is presented for consideration of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program Working ... Group. The effectiveness of the method is based on the very good agreement found between the fish ... species identified by the examinations of otoliths present in regurgitated cast and those regularly ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/25 Rev. 1 : Author(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina)
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Target strength of Antarctic krill
Abstract: In-situ measurements of individual krill target strength are presented (modal value ... reproductively mature and averaged 47.44mm in length. Results agree well with recent predictions of acoustic ... target strength based on extrapolations of other field experiments using the bent cylinder model of sound ... scattering by elongated zooplankters. The modal value of the measurements is 6.7dB lower than that predicted ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/13 : Author(s): R.P. Hewitt and D.A. Demer (USA)
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Ingestion of anthropogenic articles by seabirds at Macquarie Island
regurgitations and the stomachs of seabirds at Macquarie Island; these were ingested both at sea and on land ... . Eight percent of regurgitated casts from Macquarie Island Cormorants contained polystyrene beads ... . Plastic particles were recorded from the stomachs of Southern Giant Petrels, Subantarctic Skuas, and Kelp ... Gulls. Birds examined in 1988 had a higher frequency of occurrence of foreign objects than birds ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-VIII/BG/12 : Author(s): D.J. Slip, K. Green and E. Woehler (Australia)
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Modelling and Decision Making as Part of the CCAMLR Management Regime
environment essential for the effective management of the Antarctic marine ecosystem within the requirements ... of CCAMLR Article II. Eight attributes (purpose, description, variables, driving forces, time ... development of suitable simulations of important Antarctic marine ecosystem interactions and to facilitate the ... formulation of a suitable decision-making protocol for management purposes. Author(s): D.G.M. Miller (South ...
Meeting Document : WG-CSD-88/10 : Author(s): D.G.M. Miller (South Africa)
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plotImage – software for producing augmented image plots of spatially referenced data
Abstract: Software is presented for the automated production of standardised image plots of ... spatially referenced data. While developed to satisfy the specific requirements of WG-FSA, the routines have ... been developed to be as generic as possible and may be useful for displaying a wide range of data. This ... Working Groups for the display of spatially referenced data. Author(s): J.P. McKinlay (Australia) Title ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-10/22 : Author(s): J.P. McKinlay (Australia)