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Accounting for food requirements of seabirds in fisheries management – the case of the South African purse-seine fishery
bergii. Availability of prey is thought to influence the populations of these species, but their food ... requirements have not been accounted for in management of the purse-seine fishery on sardine and anchovy. Means ... of identifying and attaining target populations of predators that are dependent on forage fish prey ... conservation status of a species may prove useful in determining minimum viable populations, and that the use ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/28 : Author(s): R.J.M Crawford (South Africa)
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Preliminary analyses of data collected during experimental phases of the 1994/95 and 1995/96 Antarctic crab fishing seasons
Abstract: Data collected from the FN American Champion during Phases 1 and 2 of the experimental ... generalized additive models show that the density of fishable P. spinosissima is highest off the northern ... coast of South Georgia and at depths between about 100 and 300 fathoms. The Phase 1 results suggest that ... it would not be appropriate to extrapolate local estimates of abundance to the whole of Subarea 48.3 ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/34 : Author(s): Watters, G.
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Theoretical considerations for estimating the density of cohorts and mean recruitment of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) based on research trawl survey data
assessing the long-term yield for toothfish fisheries in CCAMLR uses estimates of density of juvenile ... toothfish derived from research trawl surveys as an estimate of absolute abundance of recruitment to the ... fishery. At the 2003 meeting of WG-FSA a number of inconsistencies were identified in the estimation of ... the recruitment series for Subarea 48.3. In light of this, the Scientific Committee agreed that there ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/92 : Author(s): C.R. Davies, E.M. van Wijk and A.J. Constable (Australia)
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Ross Sea Bioregionalisation, Part II: Patterns of co-occurrence of mesopredators in an intact polar ocean ecosystem
Abstract: We report results of analyses of niche occupation among mesopredators in the Ross Sea ... the surface of the ocean, 2) capacity to utilize differing amounts of the water column (foraging depth ... because of their rarity and, therefore, lack of adequate sighting data on which to generate spatial models ... (Maxent) was used to model spatial patterns of species’ probabilities of occurrence, and these data were ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/12 : Author(s): G. Ballard, D. Jongsomjit and D.G. Ainley (USA)
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Preliminary results of an age/length study of juvenile Notothenia rossii marmorata from Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands
Abstract: Whole otoliths and scales were used for a simultaneous age determination of juvenile ... Islands. Results from the analysis of both structures agreed in 95.5%. Likewise, the examination of ... otolith cross sections of chosen specimens confirmed in all the cases the age readings obtained from the ... second whole sagittal otolith. First October instead of the commonly accepted 1 July, was taken as the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-90/09 : Author(s): E. Barrera-Oro and R. Casaux (Argentina)
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Plan of research program of the Russian Federation in Subarea 48.5
Abstract: Closed mostly within the Weddell Sea Subarea 48.5 is one of the closed data-poor CCAMLR ... subareas, where stock assessment should be carried out. In spite of hard ice conditions at most part of the ... of the first and the second stage of this program. It highlights the Weddell Sea as one of the most ... promising area for exploratory fishery of Dissostichus sp. However, fishery in Subarea 48.5 is closed on the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/15 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of the Russian Federation
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INGESTION OF FISHING GEAR AND ENTANGLEMENTS OF SEABIRDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT
non-target species. Although deliberate dumping of plastics at sea is banned, not all fisheries ... legislation prohibits discarding of gear (hooks and line) in offal, and compliance is often unknown. Analysis ... of a 16 year dataset collected at Bird Island indicated that the amount of gear found in association ... with wandering albatross colonies was an order of magnitude greater than in any other species ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-09/10 : Author(s): R.A. Phillips, C. Ridley, N. Harrison (United Kindom), K. Reid (Secretariat), G.N. Tuck (Australia) and P.J.A. Pugh (United Kingdom)
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CONDITIONING SMOM USING THE AGREED CALENDAR OF OBSERVED CHANGES IN PREDATOR AND KRILL ABUNDANCE: A FURTHER STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE FOR KRILL FISHERIES IN AREA 48
Abstract: The updated version of the Spatial Multi-species Operating Model (SMOM) of krill ... -predator-fishery dynamics described in an accompanying paper is conditioned using the WG-SAM set of ... reference observations for Area 48 (the SAM calendar). Results are presented for two implementations of SMOM ... , one with the time series of krill abundance fixed on input, and the other incorporating an explicit ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/44 : Author(s): É.E. Plagányi and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)
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Temporal scales of foraging in a marine predator: implications for interpreting the distribution of prey
Abstract: The pattern of prey distribution can profoundly affect the foraging behavior and ... success of a predator. In pelagic marine ecosystems, where prey is often patchily distributed, predators ... must be able to adapt quickly to changes in the spatial patterning of prey. Antarctic fur seals feed ... indication of the distance between patches. The frequency distribution of intervals between bouts of foraging ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/23 : Author(s): Boyd, I.L.
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A critical re-examination of the evidence for a possible dependence of Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) on Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
(Dissostichus mawsoni; ‘toothfish’) in the Ross Sea may affect the ecological viability of top predators such as ... Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii), but available evidence remains inconclusive as a result of both ... the assumptions underlying application of stable isotope methodology to Weddell seals, and estimate ... the potential contribution of toothfish to the diet of Weddell seals using an isotope mixing model ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/28 : Author(s): R. Eisert, M.H. Pinkerton (New Zealand), S.D. Newsome and O.T. Oftedal (USA)