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Increase in relative abundance of fjord Notothenia rossii in Potter Cover, South Shetland Islands, after the decrease associated with commercial fishing in the area
Abstract: A monitoring program of demersal fish in inshore sites of the South Shetland Islands ... has continued in Potter Cove from 1991 to 1999, covering a continuous sampling period of sixteen years ... of fjord fishes of the species Notothenia rossii and Gobionotothen gibberifrons in relation to the ... previous study, is still evident. An increasing trend of N. rossii catches was observed, but the actual ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/30 : Author(s): E.R. Barrera-Oro, E.R. Marschoff and R.J. Casaux (Argentina)
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A review of by-catch in CCAMLR exploratory toothfish fisheries
Abstract: Mitigating the adverse affects of commercial fishing on the environment is an integral ... responsibility of fisheries globally. Efforts to reduce bycatch, to exploit previously unfavourable species and ... Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is widely recognized for its ... thorough and effective management of Southern Ocean toothfish fisheries, especially in eliminating ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/16 : Author(s): E. McClure, K. Reid (Secretariat)
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Exploratory analysis of acoustic data from the Ross Sea
Abstract: This report presents results from a pilot study to determine the feasibility of ... analyses focused on the subset of acoustic data collected when setting longlines so acoustic recordings ... , corresponding to 2–4 nmi. Data quality was generally good. Of the 84 line recordings, 68 were considered ... January 2003, and the occurrence of a double bottom echo caused by too high a ping rate from 23–30 January ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM 03/9 : Author(s): R.L. O’Driscoll and G.J. Macaulay (New Zealand)
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ENTANGLEMENT OF ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA IN MAN-MADE DEBRIS AT BIRD ISLAND, SOUTH GEORGIA DURING THE 2007 WINTER AND 2007/08 BREEDING SEASON
Abstract: Results of the survey of entanglements of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella at ... summer (November 2007 to March 2008) are reported here. During the reporting period of 1 April 2007 to 31 ... March 2008 a total of 36 entangled seals were observed. Sixteen and 20 entanglements were observed in ... for 25% of winter and 10% of summer entanglements. During winter, synthetic string/longline material ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/27 : Author(s): E.W.J. Edwards (UK)
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DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY FOR DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT
Abstract: Measures are developed which aim to summarise the quality of fishing event, catch, and ... biological sampling data from a fishing trip. In particular these measures aim to quantify the prevalence of ... position or time reporting errors, the diversity of catch, the extent to which catch data follow Benford ... 's Law for the distribution of the first significant digit, whether length-frequency data have been ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/13 : Author(s): D.A.J. Middleton and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Comparison between the CCAMLR-2000 and KY 1988 surveys on environmental variability of krill in the Scotia Sea, Antarctica
Abstract: We assessed the environmental variability of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba ... in December 1999. The Antarctic Surface Water mass, consisting of Winter Water and Summer Surface ... Antarctic Surface Water in 2000 reduced southward. Geographical distribution of krill, which approximates ... the area of the Antarctic Surface Water, in 1987/88 extended northward with high density. In contrast ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/43 : Author(s): M. Naganobu (Japan), M. Brandon (United Kingdom), K. Ito, K. Segawa (Japan) and V. Siegel (Germany)
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A von Bertalanffy growth model for Division 58.5.2 fitted to length-at-age data and a comparison of predicted with observed growth from mark–recapture data
variable probability (VP) sampling of fish that were aged. Sub-sampling of random length frequency (LF ... ) data used to obtain the samples of fish for ageing used length-bin sampling involving a fixed sample ... size per bin. Estimation of the VB parameters used a definition of the maximum likelihood which took ... into account VP sampling due to length-dependent selectivity of trawl fishing and also accounted for ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-06/07 : Author(s): S.G. Candy, A.J. Constable, T. Lamb and R. Williams (Australia)
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Engaging ‘the crowd’ in citizen science and remote sensing to learn about habitat affinity of two Southern Ocean seals
presence/absence patterns of the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), and has recently been adapted for ... efficient method to screen large numbers of images (and hence area) for undertaking census counts of Weddell ... images of the pack ice acquired during October 2018 in the Weddell Sea to identify presence/absence of ... 852 VHR images, composed of a series of tiles called “maps”, across both campaigns. The circum ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/37 : Author(s): M.A. LaRue, D.G. Ainley, J. Pennycook, K. Stamatiou, M. Dozier, J. Saints, L. Sales, N. Nur, S. Stammerjohn and L. Barrington
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A proposal for the establishment of a Ross Sea Region marine protected area
Abstract: The delegations of New Zealand and the United States submit this revised proposal for ... the establishment of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Ross Sea Region (“Ross Sea Region Marine ... Protected Area”) by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (Commission or ... ecosystem processes and areas of ecological significance; and promote scientific research, including through ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXV/25 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and the USA
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A RE-ANALYSIS AND UPDATE OF THE ANTARCTIC KRILL BIOMASS IN THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS, THROUGH 2011
Abstract: Acoustically based estimates of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) biomass, and net ... -based estimates of krill density and recruitment are recalculated for the years 1996 through 2011 ... . The time series of acoustic biomass indicate that krill have varied by more than an order of magnitude ... based data show that 2011 was a year of good recruitment, following two years of low recruitment. Krill ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/26 : Author(s): A. Cossio, C. Reiss and R. Driscoll (USA)