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How precautionary is the policy governing the Ross Sea Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) fishery?
Abstract: This article reviews the adequacy of data and models currently being used to estimate ... the present and future population sizes of the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni Norman) in ... accurate picture of total population size, and that estimates of both the pre-exploitation spawning stock ... biomass and the ratio of current to pre-exploitation biomass are unreliable. Many parameters necessary for ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/P02 : Author(s): P.A. Abrams
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Preliminary information on inshore demersal fish from the Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, in the 1999/00 summer season
Abstract: A total of 1103 inshore notothenioid fish were caught by means of trammel-nets in four ... ), Danco Coast, West Antarctic Peninsula, in the summer season of 2000. The families Nototheniidae ... , Channichthyidae and Bathydraconidae were represented being Notothenia coriiceps the dominant fish of the area ... terms of number and mass with that of the South Shetland Islands area, except for a marked higher ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/63 : Author(s): R. Casaux, E. Barrera-Oro, A. Baroni and A. Ramón
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SCAR-MARINE BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION NETWORK 2010 AND BEYOND
Abstract: Because of the unique context of the Southern Ocean, and the potential impact of Global ... and open access to this information. The two main achievements of SCAR-MarBIN are the development of a ... central Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS: 13,000 taxa) and of a distributed network of databases ... designed to act as a long-term repository, safeguarding the legacy of the IPY collaborative efforts, and to ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/35 : Author(s): Delegation of Belgium
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Report on marine debris collected at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, during the 1994/95 Antarctic season
Abstract: A summarized information on marine debris collected in the beaches of Cape Shirreff ... , Livingston Island, during the Antarctic season 1994/95 is given. Eventhough a complete collection of beach ... litter at Cape Shirreff was carried out in 1993/94, with a total of 1,754 articles weighing 284.29 kg ... , during the present survey a total of 2,744 articles with 237.7 kg were obtained, indicating that the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XIV/BG/24 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile
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Progress report on the Korean exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 in 2016/17 season
various scientific researches. The total catch of D. mawsoni was 153,084 kg with 4,360 individuals. The ... CPUE of D. mawsoni recorded 0.22 kg/hook. 805 individuals of D. mawsoni were tagged and released and ... additionally satellite archival tags were attached to 5 individuals of D. mawsoni. In Divisions 58.4.1 and ... 58.4.2, tagging rate with tag overlap statistics of D. mawsoni were 5.22 with 88% and 5.51 with 74 ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-17/27 : Author(s): S.-G. Choi, J. Lee, J. Lee and D. An
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The Evangelistas Islets, Chile: a new breeding site for black-browed albatrosses
Abstract: A previously un-described population of black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche ... melanophrys) is reported at the Evangelistas Islets, Straits of Magellan, Chile. The population was censused ... from aerial photographs taken on 13 October 2002 which yielded an estimate of the number of breeding ... pairs. A combined total of 4,670 pairs of black-browed albatrosses were found nesting at Elcano and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/10 : Author(s): J. Arata (Chile), G. Robertson (Australia), J. Valencia (Chile) and K. Lawton (Australia)
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Proposal for a Climate Change Response Work Program for CCAMLR
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 with related work ... being undertaken by the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP). Author(s): Delegations of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/19 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia and Norway on behalf of the Climate Change Intersessional Correspondence Group
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DEFINING TAG RATES AND TACS TO OBTAIN SUITABLY PRECISE ABUNDANCE ESTIMATES FOR NEW AND EXPLORATORY FISHERIES IN THE CCAMLR CONVENTION AREA
Abstract: This paper outlines a method of calculating suitable tagging rates and total allowable ... formula that gives the expected coefficient of variation of the abundance estimate in terms of the number ... of releases and recaptures, which can in turn be expressed in terms of the tagging rate per tonne ... be extremely useful in terms of defining suitable catch levels and tagging rates required to obtain a ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/06 : Author(s): R.M. Hillary (UK)
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Antarctic ecosystem management
for the management of the commercial exploitation of the marine living resources of the Southern ocean ... . More particularly, practical approaches are suggested for managing the exploitation of krill and fish ... in accordance with the objectives and requirements of Article II of the Convention for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). Quantitative predictions, and hence multi-species ...
Meeting Document : WG-DCH-84/03 : Author(s): D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)
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Climate change and zooplankton dominance in the Antarctic marine ecosystem: implications for the food web
Abstract: There is a growing body of evidence that the climate of the Antarctic Peninsula region ... has been warming over the past 40 years with an associated decreased frequency of winters with ... function of the Antarctic marine ecosystem. In the Antarctic Peninsula region winter sea-ice coverage is a ... major factor regulating recruitment and population size of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/21 : Author(s): Siegel, V., Fraser, W., Trivelpiece, S., Holm-Hansen, O., Loeb, V., Hewitt, R., Trivelpiece, W.