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Beach debris survey, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2003/04
and size categories. A total of 21 items weighing 11.59kg were collected. The number of items found ... was lower than the total found during the previous season, as was the total mass of the waste ... recovered (a decrease of 61% and 57.56% since 2002/03 respectively). There was a decrease in the number of ... continue. Plastic waste was predominant, as in previous seasons, making up 62% of all items recorded ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/15 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS (HIMI) BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES: A GUIDE FOR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS ABOARD FISHING VESSELS
Abstract: At CCAMLR-XXVI the Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (WG-FSA) noted a lack of ... specific reference material for the identification of benthic invertebrates in areas specific to which ... observers carry out their activities (SC-CAMLR-XXVI: Annex 5, paragraph 6.32). To improve the standard of ... observer identifications and also to assist in the identification of vulnerable areas, the Scientific ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Climate variability in the western Antarctic peninsula region
Abstract: The climate of tile Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region is distinguished by large ... seasonal and interannual variability and by the occurrence of seasonal sea ice which changes the ocean ... records for several peninsula stations have been examined, and the annual progression of surface air ... temperatures show an along-peninsula gradient indicative of a contrasting influence of maritime versus ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/61 : Author(s): Stammerjohn, S.E., Baker, K.S., Smith, R.C.
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Fishing with pots in the Antarctic region (CCAMLR Statistical Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 88.3)
Abstract: Results of the February-March 1998 exploratory and experimental fishing operations ... , with the purpose of determining the presence of Dissostichus spp. in Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 88.3. In ... each location where industrial bottom longlines were used, six pots were lowered, three at each end of ... the fishing gear, with a distance of approximately 90 m between them. The pots were lowered at a depth ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-98/20
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Bayesian data-model synthesis for biological conservation and management in Antarctica
CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program in obtaining policy-relevant summaries of Adélie penguin abundance ... and distribution. The engine of this decision-support tool is a physically-based algorithm for ... retrieval of continent-wide Adélie penguin distribution and abundance from satellite remote sensing imagery ... streaming in from a multitude of sensors with other sources of information such as field counts and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/26 : Author(s): H.J. Lynch and M. Schwaller (USA)
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Predation on cephalopods by Pygoscelis papua and Arctocephalus gazella at South Orkney Islands
Abstract: The cephalopod diet of the Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua and the Antarctic fur seal ... , Arctocephalus gazella was comparatively analyzed at Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands. A total of 125 stomach ... samples were collected by the water off-loading method from Gentoo penguins during the autumns of 1993 ... % of the samples. Lower beaks identified belonged exclusively to the squid Psychroteuthis glacialis ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/68 : Author(s): M.M. Libertelli, G.A. Daneri (Argentina), U. Piatkowski (Germany), N.R. Coria and A.R. Carlini (Argentina)
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Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) program: developing ICED and CCAMLR joint activities
is undertaking integrated circumpolar analyses to improve our understanding of Southern Ocean change ... work to more comprehensively assess (and where possible quantify) key impacts of change on Southern ... Ocean ecosystems. This will be achieved through the analysis and integration of available data together ... with development of models, scenarios and projections. These activities and their outputs will provide ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/36 : Author(s): E. Murphy on behalf of ICED SSC
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Fishing equipment, marine debris and hydrocarbon soiling associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2005/06
Abstract: This report describes and quantifies occurrences of fishing gear, marine debris and oil ... thirteenth such annual report. As in previous years, more items of marine debris and fishing gear (mostly ... the total number of items encountered has decreased significantly since a peak between 2000 and 2002 ... exception of black browed albatross. Entanglements continue to be observed at a rate similar to that of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Fishing ground selection in krill fishery: trends in its patterns across years, seasons, and nations
Abstract: Patterns of fishing ground selection were characterized using STATLANT and CCAMLR fine ... third of them were identified as the main contributors to the total catch. A shift of operational timing ... century of krill operation in Area 48, patterns of SSMU usage has changed. Three different patterns of ... seasonal SSMU selection were characterized by following the result of cluster analysis. Frequently used ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/28 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi (Australia), K. Taki and M. Naganobu (Japan)
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CCAMLR’s next steps to stop IUU fishing
Convention Area, undermining the intrinsic values of CCAMLR and of the Antarctic Treaty. In spite of the ... package of Conservation Measures on IUU fishing adopted by CCAMLR, there are still significant steps that ... this meeting, CCAMLR should improve its system of port State measures, while not weakening any of its ... for the effective implementation of those enhanced port State measures by developing countries. At the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/22 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC