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Beach litter survey - Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1995/96
other beach surveys were carried out. This was because of logistical difficulties caused by the late ... break out of sea-ice and the redevelopment of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research station on ... Signy Island. At Foca Cove, 26 items were found with a combined weight of 1.20 kg, and at Cummings Cove ... almost all debris found on Signy Island originates from accidental or deliberate dumping of rubbish or ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XV/BG/16 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Pilot study on electrophoretic variation and stock structure in the mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, South Georgia waters
Abstract: The use of allozymes as a tool in stock structure analysis was examined in the ... commercially-exploited mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, together with a preliminary assessment of ... stock separation among samples in South Georgia waters. Four samples (116 individuals) of icefish were ... . Clearly resolved enzyme phenotypes were obtained at 18 loci, of which 7 exhibited polymorphism at the 0.95 ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-90/10 : Author(s): G.R. Carvalho and D.P. Lloyd-Evans (United Kingdom)
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Towards a strategic framework for assessing uncertainty in ecosystem dynamics models: objectives are sensitive too
simulations of krill, its predators and fishery. It has been used to provide advice on the spatial allocation ... of the precautionary catch limit for krill. Foosa might therefore be a suitable simulation platform ... has 50 categories of input parameter and the four parameterisations used to provide spatial allocation ... advice each required values for 2,311 distinct inputs. In the absence of guidance about management ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/20 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Hill and J. Matthews (United Kingdom)
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A proposal to report marine casualties to CCAMLR
Abstract: The delegations of the United States and New Zealand propose to amend CCAMLR ... Conservation Measure 10-02 (Licensing and inspection obligations of Contracting Parties with regard to their ... flag vessels operating in the Convention Area) to require an investigation in the event of a very ... serious marine casualty¹ involving a fishing vessel². Such investigation will result in the preparation of ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/24 : Author(s): Delegations of the USA and New Zealand
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A new approach to selecting Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean
Abstract: Conservation of the high seas marine environment poses a significant challenge to ... policy-makers and managers. Marine conservation efforts are often hindered by the lack of data and the ... difficulties in addressing multiple, and typically conflicting uses. The majority of extant Marine Protected ... Areas (MPAs) are in coastal or tropical regions within national jurisdiction. Conservation of high seas ...
Meeting Document : WS-BSO-07/P3 : Author(s): Harris, J., M. Haward, J. Jabour and E.J. Woehler
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An exploratory fishing expedition for Dissostichus eleginoides around the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica
Subarea 48.4), to establish the presence and abundance of the Patagonian Tootfish Dissostichus eleginoides ... with a view to opening a new fishery under the auspices of the Commission for the Conservation of ... following guidelines set out in the CCAMLR Scientific Observers Manual and in a memorandum of understanding ... between the Governments of Chile and the UK. A new fishery in Subarea 48.4 was found not be commercially ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XII/BG/04 : Author(s): Delegations of Chile and United Kingdom
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Krill aggregation characteristics: spatial distribution patterns from hydroacoustic observations. Polar Biology (in press)
Abstract: The distributional features and physical characteristics of some 1500 krill (Euphausia ... biomass was log-normally distributed with a mean of 0.18 t. Only 3% of the aggregations were heavier than ... 1 t. The aggregations were on average 4.2 km apart along-track, and on 10 of the 15 survey days were ... randomly distributed, judged by a Chi-square test based on expected Poisson statistics. The distribution of ...
Meeting Document : WS-KCPUE-89/11 : Author(s): D.G.M. Miller and I. Hampton (South Africa)
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Research plan for exploratory fishing for toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) in East Antarctica (Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2) by Australia
with the exception of responses to Agenda Item No. 3.12 of the Draft Report of the WG-SAM-15 ... considerations of spatial structure, biomass and connectivity of toothfish populations. In addition ... , environmental data from CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) and video loggers will contribute to models of ... conservation of representative areas of benthic biodiversity. Additional outcomes include mapping of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/47 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Unusual breeding by seabirds at Marion Island during 1997/98
species of seabirds capable of foraging over wide areas and for a tern. The number of king penguin ... Aptenodytes patagonicus chicks surviving to the start of spring in 1997 was considerably more than previously ... recorded. Greater numbers of wandering Diomedea exulans and grey-headed Thalassarche chrysostoma ... southern giant petrels, reproductive success was higher than in any other year, as was survival of chicks ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/13 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, C.M. Duncombe Rae, D.C. Nel and J. Cooper (South Africa)
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Marine debris and entanglements at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, Signy Island, South Orkneys and Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula 2013–2014
. Surveys of beached marine debris at Bird Island recorded a total of 252 and 376 items during winter (April ... (operational during summer only; 26 November 2013 to 13 March 2014) recorded a total of 2 items of beached ... marine debris. Entanglements of 14 Antarctic fur seals were observed at Bird Island, 9 at King Edward ... Point and zero at Signy Island and Goudier Island. In total, 88 items of marine debris were found in ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIII/BG/31 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom