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Population assessment of Patagonian toothfish in the north of Subarea 48.4 – 2010 update
Abstract: The target tagging rate of 5 fish per tonne was exceeded by both vessels, with 232 D ... . eleginoides tag recaptures in 2009/10, a total of 72 in all seasons; The length-frequency of 2009/10 captures ... is consistent with the theory that the bulk of the biomass is dominated by a small number of cohorts ... currently assumed for the 48.3 population CASAL estimates of D. eleginoides population size in the North of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/39 : Author(s): J. Roberts and D. Agnew (UK)
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Feeding habits and prey consumption of Antarctic minke whale Balaenoptera bonaerensis in the Indo–Pacific region of the Southern Ocean
species in the Southern Ocean. Quantitative information on prey consumption of whales is useful to ... understand their feeding ecology and role in the Antarctic marine ecosystem. The purposes of this study were ... 1) to investigate the feeding habits of Antarctic minke whales based on information on prey species ... in stomach contents, and 2) to estimate the amount of prey consumed by whales, accounting for some ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/14 : Author(s): T. Tamura
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Conservation at CCAMLR: Understanding Article II of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Abstract: Article II has periodically been the subject of discussion in the Commission. As ... CCAMLR moves through its fourth decade of service as a vital part of the Antarctic Treaty system, the ... delegations of United States and Australia considered it was important to recall the development of the ... taking a close look at Article II of the Convention to see how the term is applied and to consider its ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXV/BG/28 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia and the USA
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A proposal for streamlining the work of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Abstract: The work of the Scientific Committee is expanding with a duplication of some functions ... insufficient time at present in the existing working groups, such as consideration of marine protected areas in ... a CCAMLR context. It is proposed that the working groups of the Scientific Committee be revised to ... streamline the work and to help reduce the number of groups needing to be attended by our experts. The ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/35 : Author(s): A.J. Constable (Australia)
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Reports on abundance and biological information of toothfish in Division 58.4.3b by Shinsei Maru No.3 in the 2010/11 and proposal of the consecutive survey in the 2011/12
order to collect information for the stock status and biology of toothfish in the southeast sector (24 ... allocated hauls) of Division 58.4.3b (BANZARE Bank), using a commercial bottom longline vessel Shinsei Maru ... released alive) of Dissostichus spp. and other bycatch species was 12.0 tonnes in the SE sector, where the ... catch limit of 15 tonnes was set. Dissostichus spp. made up 90.3 % in terms of weight of the whole fish ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/05 : Author(s): K. Taki, T. Iwami and M. Kiyota (Japan)
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A comparison of acoustic targets at South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands during a season of profound krill scarcity
Abstract: Dual frequency (38 and 120 kHz) acoustic surveys of shelf-break regions in the vicinity ... of Willis Islands, South Georgia and Coronation Island, South Orkneys, both in the Atlantic sector of ... zooplankton (smaller than krill). To counter the absence of krill length-frequency data from Coronation Island ... distribution in both regions was extremely patchy, resulting in a highly skewed frequency distribution of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/75 : Author(s): Watkins, J.L., Brierley, A.S.
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Revised proposal to continue the time series of research surveys to monitor abundance of Antarctic toothfish in the southern Ross Sea, 2016 and 2017
estimating the relative abundance of sub-adult (<110 cm TL) toothfish in the core strata (A, B, C) in ... SSRUs 88.1J and 88.1L so as to provide a time series of recruitment of toothfish. This is a continuation ... of the time series of CCAMLR-sponsored research surveys of these strata carried out from 2012–2015 ... . Following the recommendations of WG-FSA and WG-EMM, an additional secondary survey objective has been ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/34 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, S.J. Parker, S. Mormede and R.J.C. Currey (New Zealand)
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Genetic structuring of Patagonian toothfish populations in the southwest Atlantic Ocean: the effect of the Antarctic Polar Front and deep-water troughs as barriers to genetic exchange
species with potential for high dispersal are of great interest, not only from an evolutionary standpoint ... differentiation among populations of the Patagonian toothfish around the Southern Ocean, indicating breakdown of ... structuring through analysis of microsatellite loci and restriction fragment length poymorphism (RFLP) of the ... mitochondrial ND2 gene and control region of the toothfish population in the SW Atlantic, allowing examination ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/21 : Author(s): P.W. Shaw, A.I. Arkhipkin and H. Al-Khairulla (United Kingdom)
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Observations of demersal fish, benthic communities and seafloor composition of the Southern Ocean Atlantic sector from the ICEFISH 2004 cruise
Abstract: A multi-disciplinary research cruise in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean was ... conducted during the 2004 austral winter as part of the International Collaborative Expedition to collect ... included demersal finfish, benthic invertebrates, and information of seafloor composition. The objectives ... of the cruise included Antarctic fish and invertebrate biochemical, molecular and physiological ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/61 : Author(s): C.D. Jones, S.J. Lockhart and D.F. Doolittle (USA)
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Interannual hydroclimate fluctuations of the Atlantic part of the Antarctic since 1970 to 2000
Abstract: Late in 1999 and early in 2000 there was observed a significant shifting of Falkland ... Current core towards the shelf and abnormally large number of icebergs on the South Georgia Island shelf ... . In this connection, retrospective hydrometeorological data on the areas of South-West Atlantic ... Antarctic were examined from 1970 to 2000 March. The analysis of atmospheric pressure average monthly fields ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/35 : Author(s): G. Chernega, I. Polischuk and P. Chernyshkov (Russia)