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Investigations of intensity of krill drift near South Georgia Island
is supposed to take place not less than 2-3 times per year. Peculiarities of accumulation and drift of krill ... to take place not less than 2-3 times per year. Peculiarities of accumulation and drift of krill related ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/32 : Author(s): V.V. Popkov (Russian Federation)
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Breeding biology and diet of pintado petrels Daption capense at Bouvetøya during the summer of 1996/97
marked out and monitored intensively; in one colony overall breeding success was only 4 % owing to ... predation by Sub-Antarctic Skuas Catharacta antarctica on unattended chicks, but in another colony success ... was 85 %. Rates of failure were higher during the chick stage than in the egg stage for both of these ... two study colonies. The mean hatching date in these colonies was 11 January, and the first and last ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/56 : Author(s): Isaksen, K., Huyser, O., Dyer, B.M., Cooper, J., Ryan, P.
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Importance of myctophid fish distributions for formation of foraging areas of chinstrap penguins and Antarctic fur seals at Seal Island
foraging areas in late December 1994 (Leg I) and late January 1995 (Leg II). Leg I and Leg II corresponded ... northward beyond the shelf, and foraged in offshore region during Leg I and on slope during Leg II. The ... diurnal foraging penguins alone fed on the shelf. The following advantages are considered for feeding in ... day so that only shallow diving was required to catch krill even in the day time; (2) krill tend to be ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/87 : Author(s): Bengtson, J.L., Kawaguchi, S., Jansen, J.K., Takao, T., Meyer, W.R., Baba, N., Hiruki, L.M., Boveng, P., Cameron, M.F., Ogishima, T., Ichii, T., Naganobu, M.
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Beach debris survey, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2003/04
recovered (a decrease of 61% and 57.56% since 2002/03 respectively). There was a decrease in the number of ... reversing the rise in packaging bands experienced over the previous two seasons and marking a return to what ... has otherwise proved a declining trend since 1993/94. Despite this seasons decrease in these packaging ... fishing vessels brought into force by CCAMLR in 1995/96 has yet to prove entirely effective and should ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/15 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Is population structure of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) determined by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?
Abstract: Water transported by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in the Southern Ocean may ... island groups with little energetic cost, and may constrain movement in other directions, influencing ... of the ACC, and off Kerguelen and South Georgia Islands, situated respectively in the southern Indian ... a likelihood method. Toothfish showed significant differences in VB parameters between the Falkland ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/84 : Author(s): J.R. Ashford, C.M. Jones, E. Hofmann (USA), I. Everson (United Kingdom) and G. Duhamel (France)
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PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL FOR MARINE SPATIAL PROTECTION AROUND THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
areas of conservation importance and the selection of candidate sites for protection. In addition, the ... (covering the region marked in Figure 3) contributing towards the conservation of marine biodiversity in ... ) would apply; ii) Recommend to the Commission that further intersessional work be undertaken in relation ... to the additional areas of conservation importance identified in this paper, with a view to ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/14 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Factors affecting the growth rate and mass at weaning of Antarctic fur seal pups at Bird Island, South Georgia
maternal characteristics in 1988 or 1989. However in 1990 there was a negative relationship between growth ... the pups influenced the nature and magnitude of sex differences in estimated growth rates. Growth ... , maternal investment was greater in sons than daughters because males were heavier at birth and older at ... conditions that normally exist, individual differences in the growth of pups are most likely influenced by ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/09 : Author(s): N.J. Lunn, I.L. Boyd, T. Barton and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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Large-scale oceanographic fluctuations drive Antarctic petrel survival and reproduction
predict variation in the demographic parameters of Antarctic seabirds. First, we used a long-term dataset ... that most of the variation in both reproductive success, timing of hatching, and survival of Antarctic ... petrels can be accurately modeled using the two modes of large-scale climate variability in Antarctica. e ... in the global patterns of climatic variability will generally have detrimental e ects on populations ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/P14 : Author(s): S. Descamps, A. Tarroux, S.-H. Lorentsen, O.P. Love, Ø. Varpe and N.G. Yoccoz
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Linking acoustic scattering coefficient to krill fishery data: feasibility of estimating krill abundance using fishing survey
Abstract: Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana) is a key species in the Southern Ocean ... fisheries. In this paper, using the multi-frequency acoustic data and the fishery data, the relationship ... higher than average catch of night trawls. The average thickness of krill swarm in the daytime was ... that at night, with the maximum NASC between 160 and 180 m in depth. Both CPUA and CPUE at the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/44 : Author(s): T. Wang, G.P. Zhu, J.F. Tong and L.X. Xu
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Cephalopods and mesoscale oceanography at the Antarctic polar front: satellite tracked predators locate pelagic trophic interactions
Abstract: Predator data and exploratory fishing in the Scotia Sea have revealed the presence of ... cephalopod stocks in the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone (PFZ). This is a vast, remote region where large ... monitor foraging at sea in January-March 1994. A foraging area at the PFZ, north of South Georgia, was ... RMT25 sampled 200 m layers to 1000 m in daylight and darkness. Cephalopods were simultaneously recovered ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/12 : Author(s): Murphy, E.J., Trathan, P.N., White, M.G., Bone, D.G., Hatfield, E.M.C., Rodhouse, P.G., Prince, P.A., Watkins, J.L.