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Report on a tuna long-lining fishing voyage aboard Southern Venture to observe seabird by-catch problems
Abstract: Incidental captures of seabirds, and the behaviour of seabirds around the fishing gear ... as it was deployed, were observed during 8-days' fishing of a New Zealand-owned tuna long-liner ... . From 11,200 hooks set 6 seabirds were hooked and recovered: 5 Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans of ... birds survived hooking in this study because of the lighter gear and quicker recovery of the long-line ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/10 : Author(s): M.J. Imber (New Zealand)
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Pleuragramma antarcticum distribution in the Ross Sea during late austral summer 2013
Abstract: Research during the last decade has revealed much about the early life history of ... Pleuragramm antarcticum, including confirmation of the first known nursery ground in Terra Nova Bay. However ... the central Ross Sea and one location in the far south of the eastern Ross Sea (in the Bay of Whales ... ). Larval P. antarcticum made up more than 99% of the icthyoplankton in the western Ross Sea. Most of these ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/38 : Author(s): C. Brooks and K. Goetz (USA)
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Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) programme: developing links between ICED and CCAMLR
programme of the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Programme and is closely ... analyses to improve our understanding of change and the implications for Southern Ocean ecosystems and for ... management of human impacts. A diverse range of multidisciplinary research is underway through core ... been made in understanding the structure and functioning of ecosystems, modelling species and food webs ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/22 : Author(s): E. Murphy, R. Cavanagh, N. Johnston, E. Hofmann and A. Constable
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Domain 1 Marine Protected Area Preliminary Proposal PART A-2: MPA Model
Abstract: This document contributes to the planning process for the designation of a Domain 1 MPA ... led by Argentina and Chile. Specifically, this paper describes the rationale behind the development of ... the Domain 1 MPA model, which was based on the identification of Priority Areas for Conservation (PAC ... , WG-EMM-17/23, SC-CCAMLR XXXVI/XX) and considerations of krill fishery management and climate change ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/18 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina and Chile
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Diet overlap among top predators at the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica
2000 at South Orkney Islands. Overall, the diet of most of the predators was mainly composed of krill ... , fish or penguins. The re-occurrence of prey among predators was intermediate and ranged from 25.3 to ... 36.7 and fish, krill and squid re-occurred most frequently. The re-occurrence of fish among predator ... had high overlap of fish prey. Predators that could forage on demersal or water column prey had yearly ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/04 : Author(s): M.L. Bertolin and R. Casaux
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Statistical problems in krill stock hydroacoustic assessments
: Two primary issues are at question for hydroacoustic assessments of krill. The first is the methods ... applied to establish biomass in a survey area and the second is the improvement in accuracy of target ... -strength measurements. In the case of statistical methods, there are no clear guidelines for deciding what ... does not invalidate the use of available methods to conduct surveys and analyze results. In the case of ... assessments of krill. The first is the methods applied to establish biomass in a survey area and the second ... is the improvement in accuracy of target-strength measurements. In the case of statistical methods ... well addressed by present techniques. However, this does not invalidate the use of available methods ... to conduct surveys and analyze results. In the case of target-strength accuracy, even if the ...
Science Journal Paper : Selected Scientific Papers, SC-CAMLR-SSP/5 – Part I (Selected Scientific Papers, SC-CAMLR-SSP/5 – Part I) : 301–309 : Author(s): Macaulay, M.C.
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Solutions to seabird by-catch in Alaska’s demersal longline fisheries
and 2000) in 2 major Alaska demersal longline fisheries: the Gulf of Alaska /Aleutian Island ... for improvement and innovation. A key feature of this program was an industry-agency-academic ... conditions. We report the results of experimentally rigorous tests of seabird bycatch deterrents on the local ... abundance, attack rate, and hooking rate of seabirds in both fisheries. Based on our results, we recommend a ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/35 : Author(s): E.F. Melvin, J.K. Parrish, K.S. Dietrich and O.S. Hamel (USA)
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DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN CCAMLR: REQUIREMENTS FOR MINIMUM INTEGRITY TESTING TO ENSURE THAT DATA ARE FIT FOR PURPOSE
Abstract: The level of data quality assessment and ‘certification’ as ‘fit for purpose’ depends ... confirmation of their validity. In the context of CCAMLR, data may undergo one set of quality testing in order ... , to determine data integrity for a specific analysis. Identifying these levels of data validation is ... important for prioritizing the work of the Secretariat in data quality assessment, and also in ensuring that ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-09/05 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Marine ecosystem acoustics (MEA): quantifying processes in the sea at the spatio-temporal scales on which they occur
monitoring. Realistic understanding of what can and cannot be achieved with the available sampling techniques ... -space scales at which they occur, which is essential for some of the management challenges of CCAMLR ... , for example the FBM. Sustainable management of fisheries resources requires quantitative knowledge ... and understanding of species distribution, abundance, and productivity-determining processes ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/P01 : Author(s): O.R. Godø, N.O. Handegard, H.I. Browman, G.J. Macaulay, S. Kaartvedt, J. Giske, E. Ona, G. Huse and E. Johnsen
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Interaction between oceanography, krill and baleen whales in the Ross Sea and adjacent waters, Antarctica in 2004/05
Abstract: A joint survey of the R/V Kaiyo Maru and the Japanese Whale Research Program under ... conditions, and the distribution of krill as prey and baleen whales as predators in the Ross Sea and its ... adjacent waters, Antarctica, in austral summer of 2004/05. Results indicated close interactions between the ... thermal conditions, krill and baleen whale distributions. The oceanography of the surface layer was ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/07 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, S. Nishiwaki, H. Yasuma, R. Matsukura, Y. Takao, K. Taki, T. Hayashi, Y. Watanabe, T. Yabuki, Y. Yoda, Y. Noiri, M. Kuga, K. Yoshikawa, N. Kokubun, H. Murase, K. Matsuoka and K. Ito (Japan)