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Proposal for a Climate Change Response Work Program for CCAMLR
Terms of Reference of the Intersessional Correspondence Group (ICG) to develop approaches for ... integrating considerations of the impacts of climate change into the work of CCAMLR (components of TORs 7 and ... 8). It aims to build on related work of the Commission, SC-CAMLR and its working groups, and to link ... that the objective of a Climate Change Response Work Program is: To provide a mechanism for identifying ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/20 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia and Norway on behalf the Climate Change Intersessional Correspondence Group
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Research plan for toothfish in Divisions 58.4.4a and 58.4.4b by Shinsei Maru No. 3 in 2012/13
2011/12 fishing season with the aims of providing the data required for assessments of the population ... structure, size, movement and growth of Dissostichus spp. in the centred area of Division 58.4.4 a & b ... . An approximate stock biomass level of Dissostichus spp. in the survey area was tentatively estimated ... , paragraphs 5.19-21), although the 95 % confidence intervals were wide due to small numbers of recapture. CVs ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/17 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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THE WHITE-CHINNED PETREL (PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS) ON SOUTH GEORGIA: POPULATION SIZE, DISTRIBUTION AND GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE
fisheries than probably any other seabird in the world, but the population impact of this mortality is ... poorly understood, partly because there have been no estimates of the species’ abundance in recent ... decades. The largest breeding aggregation, comprising the majority of the worldwide total, is believed to ... be on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. We estimated the size of this population by ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-PSW-08/05 : Author(s): A.R. Martin, S. Poncet, C. Barbraud, P. Fretwell and E. Foster (United Kingdom)
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An integrated assessment model for Antarctic krill: progress update
Abstract: Estimates of population parameters from different configurations of an integrated model ... trawl data. The different configurations of the integrated model were varied based on whether acoustic ... weighted, by whether natural mortality was estimated by the model or pre-assigned a value of 0.8, and by ... whether a narrow or wide version of the age-length transition matrix was used. The biomass data calculated ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/27 : Author(s): D. Kinzey, G. Watters and C. Reiss (USA)
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Beach debris survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1999/2000
size categories. A total of 55 items weighing 10.78kg was collected. The number of items was 35% less ... than 1998/99, and the second lowest ever recorded. The total mass of the waste recovered has decreased ... in previous seasons, although the proportion of plastic items (38%) was the lowest ever recorded and ... follows a declining trend since 1996/97. The proportion of polypropylene packaging bands removed was also ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/06 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Beach litter survey, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1994/95
origin noted. At Foca Cove, a total of 91 items were found with a combined weight of 18.26 kg. At ... Cummings Cove, a total of 90 items were found (22.79 kg) and at Starfish Cove, a total of 27 items were ... dumping of rubbish from ships or discarded gear from fishing vessels, rather than from either of the ... scientific research stations in the South Orkney Islands. For example, only six of the 208 items recovered ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XIV/BG/15 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Small scale krill surveys: simulations based on observed euphausiid distributions
Abstract: An observed distribution of Meganyctiphanes norvegica aggregations is used to examine ... the effects of krill swarm orientation and shape on the success of two proposed survey designs. The ... simulation involves a number of random paths of parallel or radially arranged transects passing through three ... distributions each of which is given 4 rotations. The results indicate that the coefficient of variation (c.v ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/19 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew (Secretariat) and S. Nicol (Australia)
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Ross Sea region marine protected area: consequential changes to other conservation measures
in October 2016, it was noted that the implementation of Conservation Measure (CM) 91-05 would ... require revisions to a number of existing CMs (see paragraph 8.39 of the report of CCAMLR XXXV). CM 91-05 ... itself contains an obligation to revise CMs 41-09 and 41-10 (see paragraph 28 of CM 91-05). We describe ... the proposed changes in part 1 of this paper, with an explanation of each revision. Part 2 of this ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/16 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and the USA
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Predation on fish by the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina, at King George Island, South Shetland Islands, as reflected by stomach lavage
Abstract: Between november and february of the years 1993/94, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99 ... and 1999/2000, one hundred and fifty three specimens of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina ... were cephalopods and fish which ocurred respectively in 98,1% and 14% of stomachs containing prey ... remains. The aim of the present paper was to report data on fish prey obtained from seal stomachs ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/58 : Author(s): G.A. Daneri and A.R. Carlini (Argentina)
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Marine debris surveys at Bird Island, South Georgia 1990 to 1995
Abstract: The Antarctic marine environment has relatively few direct sources of man-made marine ... debris; however, there is concern over the dangers posed to wildlife by increasing amounts of such debris ... . Between 1990 and 1995 beached debris was monitored at Bird Island, South Georgia. This was part of a ... programme developed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XV/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom