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Adélie penguin population change in the pacific sector of Antarctica: relation to sea-ice extent and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Abstract: One of the longest continuing data sets involving a marine organism in the Antarctic is ... that of annual estimates of breeding population size of Adélie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae at colonies ... on Ross Island, Ross Sea, 1959 to 1997. The sizes of these colonies have displayed significant ... physical environmental factors during that part of the record with comparable sea-ice satellite imagery ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/23 : Author(s): P.R. Wilson (New Zealand), D.G. Ainley, N. Nur, S.S. Jacobs (USA), K.J. Barton (New Zealand), G. Ballard and J.C. Comiso (USA)
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Review of the technical recommendations for the Patagonian toothfish fishery in order to minimize by-catch
Abstract: The Patagonian toothfish fishery in the EEZ of Kerguelen (division 58-5-1) and Crozet ... (subarea 58-6) is under the management of the competent French authority, the French Southern and Antarctic ... National Museum of Natural History, Paris (MNHN). Within the context of this advice, the MNHN made ... recommendations in order to minimize fish by-catch of fish that are not targeted by the fishery campaign of 2011 ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXX/BG/10 : Author(s): Delegation of France
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IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ANTARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEMS: A CALL FOR ACTION
decade, but little in the way of policy or operational change has resulted at CCAMLR. Over the past 50 ... years major alterations of the ecological workings of the Southern Ocean have been underway. These ... Western Antarctic Peninsula has warmed more than four times faster than the average rate of Earth’s ... the distribution and abundance of those species whose natural history patterns are closely tied to sea ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/27 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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TROPHIC OVERLAP OF WEDDELL SEALS (LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLI) AND ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH (DISSOSTICHUS MAWSONI) IN THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA
Abstract: We present information to investigate the significance of Antarctic toothfish as a prey ... item for Weddell seals in the Ross Sea. • We summarise the life history of Weddell seals to provide an ... overview of their use of the Ross Sea. As consumption of prey by Weddell seals (both the amount and type of ... prey) will vary between different life history stages at different times of the year in different areas ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/43 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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Information on the status of fjord Notothenia rossii, Gobionotothen gibberifrons and Notothenia coriiceps in the lower South Shetland Islands derived from a long-term monitoring program (1983–2006) at Potter Cover
Abstract: The long term monitoring program of demersal fish at inshore sites of the South ... Shetland Islands has continued at Potter Cove from 2000 to 2006, covering a continuous sampling period of ... decline in trammel net catches of fjord fishes of the species Notothenia rossii and Gobionotothen ... the period 1983-1999, is still evident. At Potter Cove, despite an overall increasing trend of N ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/25 : Author(s): E.R. Barrera-Oro and E.R. Marschoff (Argentina)
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Major fishery events in Kerguelen Islands: Notothenia rossii, Champsocephalus gunnari, Dissostichus eleginoides – current distribution and status of stocks
Abstract: The large-scale trawl exploitation targeting virgin stocks of marbled notothenia ... fishing fleet of the fishing grounds in the early 1970’s. The fishery shifted to icefish (Champsocephalus ... banks resulted in the sharp decline in the catches of marbled notothenia. The creation of the French EEZ ... in 1978 closed the free fishery but did not stop the reduction of the biomass of exploited stocks ...
Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/P04 : Author(s): G. Duhamel, P, Pruvost, M. Bertignac, N. Gasco and M. Hautecoeur
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REVIEW OF CCAMLR ACTIVITIES ON MONITORING MARINE DEBRIS IN THE CONVENTION AREA
Abstract: CCAMLR Members monitor beached debris, entanglement of marine mammals, marine debris ... associated with seabird colonies and animals contaminated with hydrocarbons at a number of sites, primarily ... in Area 48. Overall non-fishing debris items (mostly packaging items) have made up the majority of ... debris reported from monitoring sites. Relatively large amounts of fishing items have been reported at ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-09/08 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Modeling the growth dynamics of Antarctic krill
examine the growth dynamics of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba. A system of coupled, ordinary ... differential equations was developed to describe the growth of krill between 2 and 60 mm. The metabolic ... resulted in the transfer of individuals to the next highest size class (growth), whereas negative net ... of model coefficients were constructed from an analysis of field and laboratory measurements provided ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/68 : Author(s): Lascara, C.M., Hofmann, E.E.
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Fish and squid in the diet of king penguin chicks, Aptenodytes patagonicus, during winter at sub-Antarctic Crozet Islands
Abstract: The diet of king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, rearing chicks was studied during ... of the 47 samples was 503 g. Percentages of wet and reconstituted masses showed that both fishes (66 ... and 36%, respectively) and squid (34 and 64%) are important components of the winter diet. Juveniles ... of the demersal onychoteuthid squid M oroteuthis ingens form the bulk of the cephalopod diet, and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/09 : Author(s): Cherel, Y., Ridoux, V., Rodhouse, P.G.
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The fish diet of black-browed albatross Diomedea melanophrys and grey-headed albatross D. chrysostoma at South Georgia
Abstract: The fish component of the diet of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses at South ... 1986 and 1994. Fish represented 30% and 72% by mass of the diet of black-browed albatrosses and 14% and ... 60% by mass of the diet of grey-headed albatrosses in 1986 and 1994 respectively. We determined the ... identity and quantified the contribution (by numbers, size and mass) of fish species mainly by using ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/11 : Author(s): Reid, K., Prince, P.A., Croxall, J.P.