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An unmanned aerial vehicle as a platform for aerial photography of land-based predator populations in Antarctica: specifications and suitability of the Aerosonde Mark III
land-based predators in Antarctica. Such surveys are likely to rely heavily on recent technological ... developments, such as satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which may allow cost-effective survey in ... one such UAV, the ‘Aerosonde’, which is manufactured by Aerosonde™ in Melbourne, Australia. The ... advantages in this role would be long-distance capability and low noise levels. Its disadvantages include ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/50 : Author(s): L. Irvine and C. Southwell (Australia)
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Off the hook? Initiatives to reduce seabird by-catch in longline fisheries
Abstract: The recent history of global initiatives to reduce seabird by-catch in longline ... fisheries are reviewed, highlighting in turn the activities of environmental and industry non-governmental ... , especially albatrosses and petrels, are affected, with unsustainable mortality rates in a number leading to ... population decreases. An International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Longline ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/6 : Author(s): J. Cooper (South Africa), J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom) and K.S. Rivera (USA)
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Composition of Leucocytes in Peripheral Blood of Antarctic Toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni (Nototheniidae)
Abstract: The aim of the work is to study the leukocyte composition in blood of deep-water fish ... species by the example of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni. Fish were caught in January–February ... 2012 in the Ross Sea (Statistical Subarea 88.1) at depths from 690 to 1183 m from onboard “Yantar-31 ... ) with average mass 21.4 kg and length 114 cm. The composition of leukocytes in Antarctic toothfish is ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/P07 : Author(s): I.I. Gordeev, D.V. Mikryakov, L.V. Balabanova and V.R. Miktyakov
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Progress report on the development of MPAs in Domain 1
Protected Areas (MPAs) in Domain 1 of CCAMLR. The results of the first Workshop were presented in WG-EMM-12 ... /69. This second workshop was organized as bilateral meeting between Chile and Argentina in order to ... review the progress achieved since the first international workshop held at Valparaíso in 2012. The list ... of assistants is provided in Annex 1. The workshop was held at La Serena, Chile, between 2-4 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/40 : Author(s): J. Arata, C. Gaymer, F. Squeo (Chile), E. Marschoff, E. Barrera-Oro and M. Santos (Argentina)
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Composition of leucocytes in peripheral blood of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni (Nototheniidae)
Abstract: The aim of the work is to study the leukocyte composition in blood of deep-water fish ... species by the example of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni. Fish were caught in January–February ... 2012 in the Ross Sea (Statistical Subarea 88.1) at depths from 690 to 1183 m from onboard “Yantar-31 ... ) with average mass 21.4 kg and length 114 cm. The composition of leukocytes in Antarctic toothfish is ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/P01 : Author(s): I.I. Gordeev, D.V. Mikryakov, L.V. Balabanova and V.R. Miktyakov
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Hatching season and growth of Pleuragramma antarcticum larvae near the Antarctic peninsula in austral summer 1993/94
Abstract: Hatching season and larval growth of Pleuragramma antacticum in the water off Antarctic ... Peninsula were determined by the examination of growth increments in otoliths. The samples were collected by ... (54 inds. out of 77 fish larvae) in ichthyoplankton samples, and occurred mainly in cold water of the ... otolith cores was about 50 μm in diameter. The width of the growth increments was narrow near the core ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/65 : Author(s): Cha, S.S., Lee, T.W., Kim, S.
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Interactions between cetaceans and fisheries in Southern Ocean
Abstract: Soon after longlining on Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) started in the ... Southern Ocean in the second half of the 1980’s, interactions of cetaceans with these fisheries became ... . Sperm whales became frequently entangled in the line and part of the line was lost in a number of cases ... . Other cetaceans were rarely seen in the vicinity of longline vessels. They became entangled in the line ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/11 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany), M. Purves (South Africa) and G. Duhamel (France)
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A PROPOSAL TO AMEND CONSERVATION MEASURE 21-03 WITH REGARDS TO THE USE OF NEW FISHING GEAR IN THE KRILL FISHERIES (AND SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT TO CONSERVATION MEASURE 21-01)
Abstract: At CCAMLR XXVI there was significant discussion in the Commission regarding a ... notification to conduct pair trawling operations in the krill fisheries in the 2007/08 season. During the ... discussion it was suggested that as the pair trawling method had not previously been used in the CCAMLR Area ... and there were no established data collection and analysis methods, the use of pair trawling in the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/36 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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A method to evaluate selection of Antarctic krill in towed fishing gears
Abstract: The pelagic trawlers involved in the fishery for Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba ... traditionally collected during timely and costly fishing experiments in the field where one design is tested at ... the morphology of the species in quest and the shapes of the relevant mesh types, to predict the size ... selectivity by mathematical modeling. After making modifications with the procedures in FISHSELECT to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/34 : Author(s): L.A. Krag, B. Herrmann (Denmark), S. Iversen, A. Engås, S. Nordrum and B.A. Krafft (Norway)
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A feasibility study for stock assessment of D. mawsoni in the Ross Sea (Subares 88.1 and 88.2) using a tag and recapture experiment
purpose of stock assessment of the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea. An ... exploratory fishery for D. mawsoni has been operating since 1997-98. Catches have increased from ~40 t in 1997 ... -98 to nearly 1800 t in 2002-03. Although some Patagonian toothfish (D. eleginoides) are taken in the ... 90% D. mawsoni) have been tagged and released in the area, from vessels operating in the exploratory ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM 03/10 : Author(s): K.J. Sullivan, N.W.McL. Smith, J. McKenzie and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)