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1. A new approach to selecting Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean

   Abstract:  Conservation of the high seas marine environment poses a significant challenge to ... policy-makers and managers. Marine conservation efforts are often hindered by the lack of data and the ... difficulties in addressing multiple, and typically conflicting uses. The majority of extant Marine Protected ... Areas (MPAs) are in coastal or tropical regions within national jurisdiction. Conservation of high seas ...

   Meeting Document : WS-BSO-07/P3 : Author(s): Harris, J., M. Haward, J. Jabour and E.J. Woehler

2. An exploratory fishing expedition for Dissostichus eleginoides around the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica

   Subarea 48.4), to establish the presence and abundance of the Patagonian Tootfish Dissostichus eleginoides ... with a view to opening a new fishery under the auspices of the Commission for the Conservation of ... following guidelines set out in the CCAMLR Scientific Observers Manual and in a memorandum of understanding ... between the Governments of Chile and the UK. A new fishery in Subarea 48.4 was found not be commercially ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XII/BG/04 : Author(s): Delegations of Chile and United Kingdom

3. Krill aggregation characteristics: spatial distribution patterns from hydroacoustic observations. Polar Biology (in press)

   Abstract:  The distributional features and physical characteristics of some 1500 krill (Euphausia ... biomass was log-normally distributed with a mean of 0.18 t. Only 3% of the aggregations were heavier than ... 1 t. The aggregations were on average 4.2 km apart along-track, and on 10 of the 15 survey days were ... randomly distributed, judged by a Chi-square test based on expected Poisson statistics. The distribution of ...

   Meeting Document : WS-KCPUE-89/11 : Author(s): D.G.M. Miller and I. Hampton (South Africa)

4. WG-CSD-88

   Full Name:  Working Group for the Development of a Conservation Strategy Location:  Hobart ... October 1988 Meeting documents Doc Number Title WG-CSD-88/01 Provisional Agenda for the Meeting of the ... Conservation Strategy Working Group Convener WG-CSD-88/02 Provisional Agenda for the Meeting of the Technical ... Subgroup Convener WG-CSD-88/03 List of Participants Secretariat WG-CSD-88/04 List of Documents Secretariat ...

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5. First CCAMLR Performance Review

   review of the organisation during 2008. CCAMLR’s decision provided for the review to be carried out by a ... panel appointed by the Commission composed of nine persons as follows: four internationally recognised ... experts with CCAMLR experience; the Chair of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting’s Committee for ... with experience in relevant areas of science, fisheries management and legal matters. Report of the ...

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6. Unusual breeding by seabirds at Marion Island during 1997/98

   species of seabirds capable of foraging over wide areas and for a tern. The number of king penguin ... Aptenodytes patagonicus chicks surviving to the start of spring in 1997 was considerably more than previously ... recorded. Greater numbers of wandering Diomedea exulans and grey-headed Thalassarche chrysostoma ... southern giant petrels, reproductive success was higher than in any other year, as was survival of chicks ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/13 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, C.M. Duncombe Rae, D.C. Nel and J. Cooper (South Africa)

7. Marine debris and entanglements at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, Signy Island, South Orkneys and Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula 2013–2014

   . Surveys of beached marine debris at Bird Island recorded a total of 252 and 376 items during winter (April ... (operational during summer only; 26 November 2013 to 13 March 2014) recorded a total of 2 items of beached ... marine debris. Entanglements of 14 Antarctic fur seals were observed at Bird Island, 9 at King Edward ... Point and zero at Signy Island and Goudier Island. In total, 88 items of marine debris were found in ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIII/BG/31 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

8. New Zealand’s exploratory fishery for toothfish within the SPRFMO Convention Area: update and future directions

   Abstract:  The 2-year programme of exploratory fishing provided for by SPRFMO CMM 4.14 has been ... surveys provide information on the life history of Antarctic toothfish that is consistent with the current ... hypothesis on Antarctic toothfish growth and movement, and have provided the some of the first empirical ... scientific observations of spawning Antarctic toothfish. Information collected during these first two voyages ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/18 : Author(s): M. Cryer, A. Dunn and J. Fenaughty

9. New data on Antarctic toothfish and some others by-catch fishes fecundity with gonads histological pictures from Ross Sea region and data on Patagonian toothfish from the Argentina Sea

   Abstract:  Results of samples’ processing fixed from Sub-area 88.1 in the 2003-2004 season aboard ... f/v «Yantar» operating in the Exploratory Fishery were presented. According to the results of ... investigation of oocytes’ size composition and histological researches of ovaries at different maturation level ... it was ascertained that intermittent oogenesis type and synchronic development of the nearest ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/28 : Author(s): V.G. Prutko and L.A. Lisovenko (Russia)

10. Krill fishery report: 2005 update

    have taken 62049 t of krill to date. Two CCAMLR scientific observers have been deployed. The ... preliminary estimate of the total catch of krill for the season is approx 142000 t. This compares with 118166 ... t of krill reported in 2003/04. One monthly catch and effort report is overdue for 2004/05, and some ... fine-scale data are overdue for 2003/04. The report includes: Availability of fishery and observer data ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/5 : Author(s): Secretariat

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