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Scientific justification for a marine protected area designation around the Balleny Islands to protect ecosystem structure and function in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica: progress report
Abstract: In 2000, the New Zealand delegation to CCAMLR proposed the designation of an Antarctic ... on the value of the area on and around the Balleny Islands, and the potential benefits of ... establishing a Balleny Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA). The ecological importance of the Balleny Islands ... Article 3 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. This paper’s ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/25 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Proposal for a skate tagging program in the Ross Sea region to estimate the local biomass trend for starry skates (Amblyraja georgiana)
Abstract: To progress development of a semi-quantitative and spatially explicit risk assessment ... /17 fishing season, noting that on average 89% of skates by weight are released alive (45 of 51 t ... annually). Catch data show that most of the skate catch consists of Amblyraja georgiana and that this ... biomass. Much of the A. georgiana catch occurs in SSRUs 88.1H and 88.1I in an area remaining open to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/38 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Parker and M. Francis
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Update on the Top Predator Alliance project, 2013–14 season: Killer whales
affected by the removal of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni; ‘toothfish’) in the Ross Sea region ... . However, extreme paucity of information about the diet of TCKW, and uncertainty regarding the degree of ... fishery to TCKW and other marine mammals and (b) mitigate potential risk by implementation of management ... recorded during 5 of 8 helicopter flights. For 3 of these observations, the prey was identifiable as ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/52 : Author(s): R. Eisert, M.H. Pinkerton (New Zealand), L. Torres (USA), R.J.C. Currey, P.H. Ensor, E.N. Ovsyanikova, I.N. Visser (New Zealand) and O.T. Oftedal (USA)
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Preliminary proposal for designation an Antarctic Specially Protected Area in the Argentine Islands Archipelago and nearby Graham Coast Antarctic Peninsula region
region of Argentine Islands Archipelago, adjacent islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago and costal oases of ... terrestrial area with marine component, which consists of inter-island water areas within the central group of ... provided research and monitoring at the Argentine Islands Archipelago, including terrestrial survey of ... almost all islands, and ice-free areas at Mainland. The distribution of different vegetation: moss ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/21 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine
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Preliminary investigations into a two-area stock assessment model for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Amundsen Sea Region
Abstract: In 2013, the Scientific Committee of CCAMLR could not achieve consensus on a stock ... noted that the assessments were unable to fit the patterns in the recaptures of tagged fish seen in SSRU ... present the preliminary development of a two-area stock assessment model. A two-area model is a method for ... allowing explicit modelling of movement (migration) of fish into an assessment model, allowing the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/57 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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Informative approaches to ageing Antarctic fishes
Abstract: Two concepts can be examined when studying the age of Antarctic fishes. Age can be ... considered in terms of the passage of time (chronological age), and it can also be examined as ' ... ;physiological time'. In this regard otoliths and post-mitotic tissues may contain a large amount of ... examination of otoliths by light and scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) methodology demonstrated that rhythmic ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR/86/FA/07 : Author(s): R.L. Radtke and K.T. Hill (USA)
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Krill fishery report: 2007 update
for krill in Area 48 in the 2006/07 season, and these vessels have taken 61876 t of krill to date. Two ... CCAMLR scientific observers have been deployed. The preliminary estimate of the total catch of krill for ... the season is approximately 111746 t. This compares with 106589 t of krill reported in the STATLANT ... data for 2005/06. With the exception of Korea and Poland, all Contracting Parties have submitted ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/05 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 1998/99
Abstract: The ninth year of surveys of beach man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia ... revealed a total of 213 items, 51% less than the total of 430 items in 1997/98 and the second lowest total ... 1990. The number of items collected in the summer was 172, a decrease of 45% from the 1997/98 total of ... 310. Nylon line, identical to that attached to longline gear, accounted for 51 % of items.The lower ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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REPORT ON THE ABANDONED GILLNET RETRIEVAL OPERATION CONDUCTED BY AUSTRALIA IN CCAMLR STATISTICAL DIVISION 58.4.3B (BANZARE BANK)
gillnets as a fishing method to target toothfish in the Convention area. Estimating the impact of IUU ... fishing is hampered by a lack of data on the design, deployment, catch and bycatch rates of gill nets ... (Statistical Division 58.4.3b), and the toothfish and bycatch found when a section of the gillnet was retrieved ... . Based on the amount of toothfish found in the 8 km long section of net retrieved, upwards of 29 tonnes ...
Meeting Document : TASO-09/10 : Author(s): Snowdon, D., Hamill, J., McEachan, F., Welsford, D.
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Best practice seabird by-catch mitigation for Spanish-rig longline vessels with emphasis on line weighting regimes
Abstract: The Spanish system is used in a range of demersal and semi-pelagic longline fisheries ... throughout the southern hemisphere and has been the source of a large number of seabird fatalities. An ... experiment was conducted on a chartered Spanish-rig vessel to improve the sink rate of longlines to reduce ... interactions with seabirds. The benchmark sink rate was that of integrated weight (IW) longlines, as used by ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/22 : Author(s): G. Robertson (Australia), C.A. Moreno (Chile), B. Wienecke (Australia), P. Gandini (Argentina), G. McPherson (Australia) and J.-P. Seco Pon (Argentina)