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Species variability and population structure of Euphausiacea in Admiralty Bay (King George Island; South Shetland Islands) during Antarctic summer
Abstract: The main component of zooplankton in Antarctic pelagic waters, apart from copepods or ... of the penguins and pinnipeds’ diet. Admiralty Bay, because of its specific hydrological conditions ... , is an interesting area for that kind of biological study. Moreover, King George Island, where ... Admiralty Bay is located, is a region of dynamic climate characterized by variable maritime conditions which ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/60 : Author(s): A. Panasiuk-Chodnicka, J. Wawrzynek and M. Iwona Żmijewska (Poland)
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Preliminary assessment of the South Georgia toothfish stock, 2007
higher than was estimated last year. 2. Improvements are made to the fit of tag data through (a ... estimates of catches at age from 1998 to 2006 (based on random sampling of the catch for age determination ... ). Fits of all data (CPUE; catches at length for the early fishery; catches at age for the later fishery ... groundfish survey data. 4. Several of the requests of WG-FSA for developments of the South Georgia toothfish ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/29 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, R. Hillary and J. Pearce (United Kingdom)
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Review of CCAMLR activities on monitoring marine debris in the Convention Area
Abstract: The current status of national surveys on monitoring of marine debris and their impact ... at Bird Island and Signy Island, but have declined. The number of debris items found had increased in ... Island (2005), Signy Island (2006) and King George Island (2006). The majority of items found were ... packaging materials and wood. The level of marine debris found in grey-headed albatross, black-browed ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/09 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Measurement of ocean temperatures using instruments carried by Antarctic fur seals
Abstract: The study aimed to test the utility of instruments deployed on marine mammals for ... recorders (TDRs) fitted to lactating Antarctic fur seals foraging from the coast of South Georgia ... . Congruence was found at horizontal spatial scales from 0.01° X 0.01° to 0.5° X 0.5° (degrees of latitude and ... longitude), and at a vertical scale of 10 m. However, there was no significant correlation between ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/56 : Author(s): I.L. Boyd, E.J. Hawker, M.A. Brandon and I.J. Staniland (United Kingdom)
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Foraging movements of the shy albatross Diomedea cauta breeding in Australia; implications for interactions with longline fisheries
Abstract: Satellite telemetry was used to identify the foraging zones of Shy Albatrosses Diomedca ... cauta breeding at two sites of Tasmania, Australia (Albatross Island in western Bass Strait and Pedra ... Branca to the south) to assess their level of interaction with longline fisheries. Adult birds from both ... Branca foraged between the colony and the southeastern edge of the continental shelf. The distances ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/52 : Author(s): Gales, R., Hedd, A., Brothers, N., Robertson, G.
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Beached marine debris surveys and incidences of seabird/marine mammal entanglements and hydrocarbon soiling at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, and Signy Island, South Orkneys, 2009/10
(entanglements and hydrocarbon soiling only). Surveys of beached marine debris at Bird Island recorded a total of ... 2010) respectively. Surveys at Signy Island recorded a total of 41 items during summer 2009/10 ... varying quantities) at Bird Island, and the majority of items collected at Signy Island were either ... plastic or wood. Entanglements of 7 Antarctic fur seals (4 involving green nylon string) were observed at ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIX/BG/10 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Development of the VME registry
Abstract: The Secretariat has proposed a work plan and budget for the development of a VME ... related data, for generating web-based lists of VMEs notified under CM 22-06 and VME risk areas and fine ... and information related to VMEs and risk areas and a selection of maps of VMEs, risk areas, and ... rectangles, including locations and taxonomic composition, is intended to be posted on the public section of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/07 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Development of a spatially-explicit minimum realistic model for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) and its main prey (Macrouridae and Channichthyidae) in the Ross Sea
Abstract: To explore the potential effects of the toothfish fishery on the population dynamics of ... -based population dynamics of toothfish, grenadier, and icefish, and include natural mortality (M1) and ... of the nature of the interaction. Whilst this model is in a development stage, it provides a useful ... tool for evaluating potential impacts of the fishery on key prey species, and for assessing and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/51 : Author(s): S. Mormede, M. Pinkerton, A. Dunn, S. Hanchet and S. Parker (New Zealand)
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Coastal weather drives foraging behaviour of chinstrap penguins, Pygoscelis antarctica
indicators because their performance is presumed to be linked to the overall function of the ecosystem that ... supports them. In the southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba ... indices of krill predators have been proposed as a proxy for krill abundance. However, there are several ... potentially confounding sources of variability that might impact predator performance such as the effects of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/P14 : Author(s): A.D. Lowther, P. Trathan, A. Tarroux, C. Lydersen and K.M. Kovacs
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Integrated research proposal for Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 88.3 by the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Ukraine
blocks where tagged fish have previously been released on the slope, while also prospecting two of the ... updates the final year of the research plan with the recommendation from the Scientific Committee to ... integrate the Ukrainian research with the Korean and New Zealand research plan. The objective of this ... integrated proposal is unchanged, i.e., to determine the abundance and distribution of Antarctic toothfish in ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-2019/02 : Author(s): Delegations of the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Ukraine