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Selectivity and two biomass measures in an age-based assessment of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)
Abstract: An integrated, age-structured model was fitted to different combinations of survey data ... using two forms of selectivity (logistic or double-logistic) with time-constant or annually varying ... selectivity to investigate the population dynamics of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) near the Antarctic ... the South Shetland Islands from 1992 to 2011. Two indices of krill biomass based on (1) trawl-net ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/P07 : Author(s): D. Kinzey, G.M. Watters and C.S. Reiss
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Classification of Southern Ocean krill and icefish echoes using Random Forests
Abstract: Target identification remains a challenge for acoustic surveys of marine fauna ... . Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, are typically identified through a combination of expert scrutiny of ... echograms and analysis of differences in mean volume backscattering strengths (S V; dB re 1 m-1) measured at ... icefish are currently surveyed using bottom-trawls, but the resultant estimates of abundance may be biased ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/23 : Author(s): N. Fallon, S. Fielding and P. Fernandes
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A spatial multi-species operating model (SMOM) of krill–predator interactions in small-scale management units in the Scotia Sea
Abstract: A Spatial Multi-species Operating Model (SMOM) of the underlying krill-predator-fishery ... dynamics is developed in response to requests for scientific advice regarding the subdivision of the ... the potential impact of fishing on land-based predators. The model is intended to complement the ... of krill in each of the SSMUs, as well as the numbers of predator species in each of these areas. The ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/12 : Author(s): É. Plagányi and D. Butterworth (South Africa)
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A method for inferring movement rates of fish from mark–recapture data
Abstract: This paper presents methods to infer the rate of movement of fish that are marked ... , released, and subsequently captured. The information that is available is the location and date of the ... release and the recapture. In addition, the intensity of fishing effort (i.e. sampling) by location and ... time is known. The simplest approach is to make a frequency plot of the distance between each release ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/66 : Author(s): C. Wilcox (Australia)
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Peculiarities of icefish Champsocephalus gunnari (Channichthyidae) distribution in South Georgia area during the surveys made by STM Atlantida in 2000 and 2002
Abstract: Reasons of differences in icefish distribution and biomass assessment during two ... surveys made by STM “Atlantida” are revealed. Availability of large icefish concentrations in 2000 in the ... northwest shelf area in 10-100m layer resulted in formation of adult fish aggregations in water column. The ... the bottom even in dark hours of the day. During the two surveys, fry and immature fish occurred in ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/55 : Author(s): Zh.A. Frolkina, S.M. Kasatkina and N.N. Zhigalova (Russia)
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Population dynamics of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at sub-Antarctic Marion Island: longline fishing and environmental influences
Abstract: The Prince Edward Islands support the largest breeding population of the vulnerable ... Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans. The number of birds breeding in this population has fluctuated over ... the past three decades and appears to be the result of both real changes in the size of the population ... and changes in the proportion of the population that attempts to breed in a given year. We describe ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/16 : Author(s): D.C. Nel, P.G. Ryan and J. Cooper (South Africa)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1996/97
Abstract: The results of the first annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 1996/97 season. Neck collars of man-made debris were ... seen on 12 seals, all of which were juvenile males. Five entangled seals were observed in an area ... around Signy Island Research Station where approximately 1.3% of the fur seal population come ashore. It ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVI/BG/07 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Science supporting the joint New Zealand–United States proposal for the establishment of a marine protected area in the Ross Sea Region
Region (RSR). A substantial amount of material has already been presented to the Scientific Committee ... and its working groups, and here we provide an abridged and annotated summary of that material. We ... organize our summary by linking spatial data to the specific protection and scientific objectives of the ... continental slope, the Balleny Islands and vicinity, and the northern RSR. A set of maps (provided in an ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-IM-I/08 : Author(s): Delegations of the USA and New Zealand
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Performance metrics to index the spatial coverage of mark-recapture data
Abstract: Understanding the spatial distribution of the release of tagged fish and the subsequent ... spatial coverage of fishing effort to recapture tagged fish is an important consideration when ... measures of spatial overlap and potential bias in the development of tag-based biomass estimates are an ... statistics: (i) a single measure of the degree of spatial overlap between the release of tagged fish and ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/13 : Author(s): C. Marsh, A. Dunn and S. Mormede
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Otolith chemistry reveals local population structure of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) within the CCAMLR Subarea 48.6
and economical value and that distributed in the high latitude of the Southern Ocean. The CCAMLR ... subarea 48.6 is one of an important fishing zone, however, the local population structure of D. mawsoni is ... unknown in this regions, which hampered the understanding on population dynamics of this species and the ... management of toothfish fishery. The chemistry in the otolith can often be used to distinguish population ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/75 : Author(s): L. Wei, G.P. Zhu, S. Somhlaba, X.Y. Yu and M. Duan