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1. CEMP INDICES: 2009 UPDATE

   . Each year the Secretariat updates the standardised index values and provides a summary of trends ... collected by standard methods in the three Integrated Study Regions of the Convention Area. Each year ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/05 : Author(s): Secretariat

2. Improving mechanistic understanding between larval krill, krill recruitment, and sea ice

   of this paper is to provide the Working Group with a summary of our recent efforts published last year ... of this paper is to provide the Working Group with a summary of our recent efforts published last year ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/07 : Author(s): B. Meyer and S. Kawaguchi

3. Impact of predation by Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus on Cape gannets Morus capensis at Malgas Island, Western Cape, South Africa

   (Morus capensis) fledglings around Malgas Island in the 2000/01 breeding season, 11 000 in 2003/04 and 10 ... 000 in 2005/06. This amounted to about 29%, 83% and 57% of the overall production of fledglings at the ... island in these breeding seasons, respectively. Preliminary modelling suggests this predation is not ... sustainable. There was a 25% reduction in the size of the colony, the second largest of only six extant Cape ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/9 : Author(s): A.B. Makhado, R.J.M. Crawford and L.G. Underhill (South Africa)

4. Estimation of the green weight of krill caught

   Abstract:  Vessels operating in the krill fishery in CCAMLR’s Convention Area have been required ... revised at WG-EMM-13 and published in Conservation Measure 21-03 Annex B. Estimates of green weight and ... parameter values are reported in each vessel’s haul-by-haul catch and effort data. This paper reviews the ... data reported in 2013/14 (to May 2014). Vessels fishing in 2013/14 used six methods for the direct ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/29 : Author(s): Secretariat

5. Larval fish distribution and abundance of the western Ross Sea

   carried out in the western Ross Sea in November-December 1994. The present study focused on improvement of ... the knowledge of the larval fish community in relation to its distribution and relative abundance. A ... abundance of larval fish in the whole area was about 2.7 specimens / 1000 m3 of sea water filtered. The ... Chionodraco sp. It was noteworthy the high number of Trematomus lepidorhinus (570 larvae) found in a single ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-95/11 : Author(s): Greco, S., la Mesa, M., Vacchi, M.

6. Report on the CCAMLR marine debris monitoring program

   items found in beach surveys. The fishing items found were mostly from longline and trawl origins ... . Plastic packaging bands continue to be found in beach surveys, with an unfortunate increase in closed ... bands found at King George Island. Overall, the amount of debris in colonies of grey-headed albatrosses ... in wandering albatross colonies remains the most frequent debris item found in each season. The ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/68 : Author(s): Secretariat

7. Linking population trends of Antarctic shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis) and fish at Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)

   in the number of breeding pairs of Antarctic shag Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis  in two colonies on ... finfish fishery has ever existed. Integral study of these parameters there showed that, in Antarctic shags ... , respectively, with both factors adversely affecting the population trends of this bird. In line with these ... premises, the declining trend observed in shag colonies on the South Shetland Islands appears to have been ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/P09 : Author(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro

8. Coastal weather drives foraging behaviour of chinstrap penguins, Pygoscelis antarctica

   Abstract:  There is increasing interest in using higher-trophic level predators as ecosystem ... supports them. In the southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba ... the ecosystem in an adaptive framework for sustainably managing krill catch levels, performance ... environmental variability and fishing pressure on krill availability at scales relevant to predators.  In this ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/P14 : Author(s): A.D. Lowther, P. Trathan, A. Tarroux, C. Lydersen and K.M. Kovacs

9. Observer notes (Subarea 88.1)

   bottom long-line sets in Subarea 88.1 from 15.12.03 till 10.03.04 are presented. For the first time ... Antarctic toothfish was found in long-line catches above seamounts of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge to the ... North up to 56°S. Presence of Patagonian toothfish in spawning aggregations of Antarctic toothfish ... cannot lead to their intbreeding as its gonads were at the early development stages in that period ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/89 : Author(s): V.G. Prutko (Ukraine)

10. On the problem of diurnal migrations of some fish species on the South Georgia shelf (Subarea 48.3)

    Abstract:  The results of experiments on the South Georgia Shelf carried out in the period of 1986 ... was the most distinctive in Ch.gunnari fry. The individuals used to ascend towards the water column ... individuals were found in the pre-bottom layer by day, being presented their small quantities in the water ... expressed during 24 hours. It was distinctly observed in juvenile and adult individuals: they were kept ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/64 : Author(s): I.A. Trunov, J.A. Frolkina and M.P. Konstantinova (Russia)

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