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Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 2000/01
Abstract: During the eleventh year of standardised beach surveys of man-made debris at Bird ... Island, South Georgia, a total of 290 items were collected. This represents a 33.3% decrease on the total ... of 408 items recorded in 1999/00 and the lowest levels of summer beach debris (147 items) since the ... 1994/95 season. The difference between the number of items collected in the summer and winter months is ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/03 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Model diagnostics for the Antarctic krill assessment for Subarea 48.1
Abstract: Model diagnostics have been applied to CASAL-based assessments of toothfish ... integrated model. The purpose of this note is to use some of these methods to explore aspects of the ... ; configuration of the krill model was presented to EMM in 2015 (Kinzey et al. 2015a) along with seven alternative ... influence of different data sources on the model estimates. The work described here augments the previous ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/60 : Author(s): D. Kinzey, G.M. Watters and C.S. Reiss (USA)
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Seabird by-catch update on industrial Patagonian toothfish fishery in southern Chile
Abstract: Implementation of NPOAs requires in first place an assessment of all longline fisheries ... with presumption of occurring seabird incidental mortality. Chile took this responsibility in 2001 and ... southern Chile, a fishery and zone with high probabilities of having significant levels of incidental ... mortality. Final results of this study are presented now. Seabird bycatch rate during 2002 had a markedly ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/13 : Author(s): J. Arata, C.A. Moreno and R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile)
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FISHING INDUSTRY POLLUTION OBSERVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED MARINE MAMMAL ENTANGLEMENT RECORDS AT SOUTH GEORGIA, SUMMER 1996/97
Abstract: From various locations on or near the mainland of South Georgia, between November 1996 ... and January 1997, 13 observations of entanglement of marine mammals (one southern elephant seal ... . Of the fur seals five (42%) were female (three adult, two juvenile) and seven (58%) were male (one ... . Marine debris was collected from a 1 km stretch of beach on the south coast of South Georgia between 24 ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVI/BG/26 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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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
for these divisions and inform the necessary 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 toothfish habitat use. These models will inform ... spatial management approaches for toothfish, and the conservation of representative areas of benthic ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/10 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Domain 1 MPA designation process: data sharing and future enhanced work
Abstract: During the last years, a large amount of information was gathered and shared in one ... unique project for the development of a representative system of MPAs in Domain 1. This process ... integrates, compiles, analyses and exposes a large amount of information, not only contributing to the best ... science available but also providing a platform for the sharing and visualization of information, further ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/73 : Author(s): M. Santos, A. Capurro and C.A. Cárdenas
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Pygoscelis penguin colonies census in the Vernadsky Antarctic station area (Statistical Subarea 48.1)
provided during 2017-2018 breeding season. The Pygoscelis penguins in the region of research are mainly ... gentoo penguin, which has formed 14 autonomous colonies with about 13320 of breeding pairs total and ... colonies with 5300 nesting pairs and 800 immature penguins. Inside of the Adelie penguin specie family ... , there is significantly higher percentage of birds which not involved in the reproduction process. This ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/25 : Author(s): V.M. Smagol, A.O. Dzhulay, I.V. Dykyy and G.P. Milinevsky
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Pygoscelis penguin census in the Vernadsky Antarctic station area
region of research are gentoo penguin, which has formed 14 separate colonies with about 13320 of breeding ... formed 8 nesting colonies with 5300 nesting pairs and 800 immature penguins. Inside of the Adelie penguin ... species family, there is a significantly higher percentage of birds which not involved in the reproduction ... process. This fact, to some extent, probably explains the depression of the world population of the Adelie ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/BG/06 : Author(s): V.M. Smagol, A.O. Dzhulay, I.V. Dykyy, G.P. Milinevsky and E.O. Dykyy
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Aerobic dive limit: how often does it occur in nature?
Abstract: Diving animals offer a unique opportunity to study the importance of physiological ... constraint in their everyday behaviors. An important component of the physiological capability of any diving ... animal is it’s aerobic dive limit (ADL). The ADL has only been measured in a few species. The goal of ... this study was to estimate the aerobic dive limit from measurements of body oxygen stores and at sea ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/48 : Author(s): D.P. Costa, N.J. Gales and M.E. Goebel (USA)
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Diseases outbreak threatens Southern Ocean albatrosses
Southern Ocean and in Antarctica no major outbreaks of infectious diseases have been reported, perhaps ... because of isolation and cold climate, although recent evidence suggest their presence. The major threat ... controversial long-lining that is assumed to be the cause for the major decline of albatrosses and petrels ... , Erysipelas bacteria) are the major cause of the decline on Amsterdam Island of the large yellow-nosed ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/32 : Author(s): H. Weimerskirch (France)