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Defining smaller management areas within CCAMLR
Abstract: This paper discusses the principles required to develop of small-scale management units ... considering the scales of management units involving the integration of local populations of harvested species ... , foraging areas of predators, fishing grounds and the potential influences of the environment, including ... oceanography and metapopulation structure of the harvest species. The integration of these three components ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/52 : Author(s): A.J. Constable and S. Nicol (Australia)
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Modelling Southern Ocean krill population dynamics: biological processes generating fluctuations in the South Georgia ecosystem
Abstract: Variability is a key feature of the pelagic ecosystems of the Southern Ocean and an ... important aspect of the variation is fluctuation in the abundance of krill, the major prey item of many of ... the higher predators. Direct impacts of variability in the large-scale physical environment, such as ... . So far, however, there has been little quantitative assessment of the importance of krill population ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/53 : Author(s): E. Murphy and K. Reid (United Kingdom)
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BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY – MAIN BAY, BIRD ISLAND, SOUTH GEORGIA 1995/96
Abstract: The sixth year of surveys of beached man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia ... revealed a total of 710 items, 2% less than the record total of 725 items in 1994/95. However, whereas the ... total amount of debris collected during the winter (April-September) was 40% lower than in 1994/95, the ... number of items collected at the end of summer (March) was 75% greater than the previous year, which was ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVI/BG/4 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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CCAMLR ecosystem monitoring and management: future work
Abstract: Harvesting of marine living resources in the Southern Ocean is managed by the ... Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). CCAMLR is widely known for ... its ecosystem-approach to managing fisheries with the maintenance of ecological relationships included ... in the conservation objectives. In the late 1980s, the precautionary approach of CCAMLR was ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/P05 : Author(s): A.J. Constable
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Some principles for fisheries regulation from an ecosystem perspective
Abstract: The paper discusses some principles to be considered in the formulation of a framework ... for the regulation of fisheries from an ecosystem perspective, under the Convention for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. An important task in this formulation is to derive ... principles of conservation set out in the Convention. An important property required for subsiduary ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-V/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Recommendations on estimating krill escape mortality during fishing operations: the problems and approaches
Abstract: The task to estimate the escape mortality of krill during the fishing operation ... assigned by Scientific Committee requires assessment of the total krill passed through the rope and netting ... parts of trawl and krill amount appeared unviable in the process of escapement. The recommendations ... presented are the first attempt to develop the method of instrumental assessment of the «escape mortality ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-10/06 : Author(s): V.K. Korotkov and S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)
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Recommendations on estimating krill escape mortality during fishing operations: the problems and approaches
Abstract: The task to estimate the escape mortality of krill during the fishing operation ... assigned by Scientific Committee requires assessment of the total krill passed through the rope and netting ... parts of trawl and krill amount appeared unviable in the process of escapement. The recommendations ... presented are the first attempt to develop the method of instrumental assessment of the «escape mortality ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/18 : Author(s): V.K. Korotkov and S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)
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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia, 1997/98
Abstract: The eighth year of surveys of beach man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia ... revealed a total of 430 items, 49 percent more than the total of 289 items in 1996/97. The increase of the ... winter (April-September) total was 10 percent, from 109 items in 1996/97 to 120 items in 1997/98 both of ... which were considerably less than the winter totals for the previous 5 years of collections. The number ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVIII/BG/6 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Potentially commercial invertebrates on Ob Bank: Moroteuthis ingens (Oegopsida) and Paralomis aculeata (Anomura) (Division 58.4.4)
Abstract: The cephalopods of the Antarctic are supposed to have a very high biomass level However ... , they have not been fished nor any fishable aggregations of them detected to date in the CCAMLR ... during aimed fishery for Lepidonotothen squamifrons. At maximum, the proportion of squid in the total ... catches exceeded half of the catch, reaching 1310 kg per hour of trawling. All the squid were in ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/15 : Author(s): Pshenichnov, L.K.
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Monitoring marine debris and its impact on marine living resources in Antarctic waters
Abstract: This paper has been prepared by the Secretariat of the Commission for the Conservation ... of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in response to a request from CEP-IV for information on ... Annex IV of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (CEP-III Final Report ... , paragraph 19). A number of measures have been adopted and implemented by CCAMLR to monitor and assess the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/16 : Author(s): Secretariat