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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 1996/97
Abstract: The seventh year of surveys of beached man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia ... revealed a total of 289 items, 60 % less than in the two previous years. Of the total number of items, 62 ... collection exceeded the winter. Nylon line, identical to that used in longline gear, accounted for 57 % of ... items, nearly all of which clearly originated from fishing vessels. Despite the CCAMLR ban on the use of ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVII/BG/7 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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WG-CEMP-94
Meeting documents Doc Number Title WG-CEMP-94/01 Provisional agenda WG-CEMP-94/02 List of participants WG ... -CEMP-94/03 List of documents WG-CEMP-94/04 TDR-derived foraging performance indices J.P. Croxall ... : revision of methods for black-browed albatrosses J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom) WG-CEMP-94/07 CCAMLR ... ecosystem monitoring program standard methods: revision of Method A4 for penguins W.Z. Trivelpiece (USA) WG ...
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BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY SIGNY ISLAND, SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS 1996/97
from being carried out at Cummings Cove. A total of 34 items weighing 1.61 kg were collected at ... Cummings Cove, 18 items weighing 1.42 kg were found at Foca Cove and 6 items with a total weight of 0.68 kg ... were found at Starfish Cove. The total amount of marine debris collected from the three beaches was the ... lowest recorded since the surveys began in 1990, both in terms of weight and number of items. This ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVI/BG/6 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Beach debris survey, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2006/07
, mass and size categories. A total of 50 items weighing 7.6 kg were collected. The number of items found ... was greater than the total found during the previous season, although the total mass of the waste ... recovered had decreased (an increase of 85.2% and decrease of 68.8% since 2005/06 respectively). There was a ... rise in the number of plastic packaging bands (18) from the total recorded the previous season (9 ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/19 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Beach debris survey, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 2000/2001
size categories. A total of 16 items weighing 0.74kg was collected. The number of items and the total ... mass of the waste recovered was the lowest ever recorded (a decrease of 70% and 93% since 1999/2000 ... respectively). The number of plastic packaging bands (one) was also the lowest ever recorded and follows a ... seasons, with the proportion of plastic items (56%) being the third highest reported since surveys began ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Relationship between Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) variability and westerly fluctuations and ozone depletion in the Antarctic Peninsula area
Abstract: An assessment of the environmental processes influencing variability in the recruitment ... and density of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is important, as variability in krill stocks ... density with hypothesized environmental factors, including strength of westerly winds (westerlies ... and the strength of westerlies during 1982–1998. Years with strong westerlies during the austral ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/52 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, K. Kutsuwada, Y. Sasai and T. Taguchi (Japan) and V. Siegel (Germany)
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Seabird mortality in the Japanese tuna longline fishery around Australia, 1988–1995
Abstract: Large numbers of seabirds are killed each year within the Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ ... ) by Japanese longline vessels targeting tuna. In recent years the estimated rate of seabird bycatch in ... the AFZ has been in the order of 0.15 birds 1000 hooks, translating to mortalities of 1000-3500 birds ... southern Australia. Uncertainties in the observed catch rates prevent confident assessment of trends, but ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-98/31 : Author(s): N. Brothers, R. Gales and T. Reid (Australia)
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CLIMATICALLY DRIVEN FLUCTUATIONS IN SOUTHERN OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS
of how biological and physical processes interact across a wide range of scales. Here we examine the ... role of physical and biological processes in generating fluctuations in the ecosystem around South ... Georgia in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Anomalies in sea surface temperature (SST) in ... the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean have previously been shown to be generated through ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P02 : Author(s): E.J. Murphy, P.N. Trathan, J.L. Watkins, K. Reid, M.P. Meredith, J. Forcada, S.E. Thorpe, N.M. Johnston and P. Rothery
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Linking predator and prey behaviour: contrasts between Antarctic fur seals and macaroni penguins at South Georgia
combination of concurrent at sea (predator observations, net hauls and multi-frequency acoustics), and land ... -based (animal tracking and diet analysis) techniques, we examined variability in the foraging ecology of ... these sympatric top predators during the austral summer and autumn of 2004. Krill availability derived ... occurred in 80% of fur seal diet samples, with fish remains in 37% of samples. Penguin diets contained the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P07 : Author(s): C.M. Waluda, M.A. Collins, A.D. Black, I.J. Staniland and P.N. Trathan
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Marine Debris
standardised set of forms and instructions covering marine debris from beach surveys, debris associated with ... seabird colonies, entanglements of marine mammals, and hydrocarbon soiling of mammals and seabirds. The ... on Sub-Antarctic islands. Protection of the Antarctic marine environment is a matter of concern to ... CCAMLR as the general health of the environment affects the species covered by the Convention. In ...
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