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Depletion-based stock reduction analysis: a catch-based method for determining sustainable yields for data-poor fish stocks
for data-poor fisheries in cases where approximate catches are known from the beginning of ... -Reduction Analysis with Depletion-Corrected Average Catch. Data requirements include estimates of historical ... specified based on general fishery knowledge of the relative location of maximum productivity and the ... relationship of MSY fishing rate to the natural mortality rate. This leaves unfished biomass as the only ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/P2 : Author(s): E.J. Dick and A.D. McCall
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Potential VMEs around Elephant and the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1)
in the South Shetland Islands area. High biomass densities of VME indicator taxa, meeting the 10 kg ... ascidians) such that communities of many ‘light’ VME taxa have little to no chance of meeting this criterion ... types of communities where sponges and other heavy taxa occur. A clear example can be made of CITES ... high biomass-density station and even large colonies of which weigh relatively little. After applying ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/51 : Author(s): S.J. Lockhart (USA), N. Wilson (Australia) and E. Lazo-Wasem (USA)
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Rajid by-catch in the longline fishery for toothfish in Subarea 48.3
preliminary analysis of data collected by UK scientific observers on vessels fishing toothfish in Subarea 48.3 ... from April to July 1999. The overall average catch rate of rays was 0.7/thousand hooks, compared with ... models demonstrated that there are significant differences between the catch rates of rays for different ... vessels, areas, and depths in Subarea 48.3. Some vessels, fishing on the northern shelf edges of both Shag ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/40 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, J. Taylor and I. Everson (United Kingdom)
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Climate change and precautionary spatial protection: seasonal sea ice
little changed by human activities, particularly by the impacts (either direct or indirect) of marine ... harvesting. If CCAMLR is to embrace the wider implications of climate change in the context of ecosystem ... change, both in the presence of and absence of harvesting. We therefore recommend that locations ... currently covered by seasonal sea ice (as of 2011) could be considered for creation as restricted use Marine ...
Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/18 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and S.M. Grant (UK)
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JAPANESE SCIENTIFIC OBSERVER ACTIVITIES FOR KRILL FISHERY IN CCAMLR CONVENTION AREA FROM 2003/04 TO 2007/08 FISHING SEASONS
Abstract: This document introduces the recent activities and outcome of Japanese scientific ... grounds of the Japanese fishery were the Subareas 48.1, 48.2, and 48.3. Recent observation effort was ... are analyzed through a cooperative scientific network on Antarctic ecosystem. Biological analysis of ... the incidentally caught species yielded guidelines for sampling and species identification of larval ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/19 : Author(s): M. Kiyota and T. Iida (Japan)
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Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment – 2019 Update
Abstract: This update by SCAR on recent advances in our understanding of climate change across ... , published by SCAR in 2009 (Turner et al. 2009), with an update of the key points in 2013 (Turner et al. 2014 ... ). At the request of the ATCM, SCAR agreed to provide regular updates on the original report (e.g. ATCM ... /physical-sciences/acce), which provides annual updates to the ATCM. The remit of the ACCE group is to keep ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/17 : Author(s): Submitted by SCAR
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Light levels experienced by foraging Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella
Abstract: This study examined the feasibility of using time depth recorders (TDRs) to measure ... ) 7.1 ± 0.7 d. A total of 25657 dives were recorded with a mean dive depth and duration of 18.0 ± 3.6 m ... and 49.5 ± 6.9 s, respectively. Depending on time of day, fur seals experienced between 6 and 57 % of ... recorded strong light attenuation in the top 50 m of the water column. The mean attenuation coefficient was ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/28 : Author(s): D.J. McCafferty, I.L. Boyd and T.R. Walker (UnitedKingdom)
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Krill caught by predators and nets: differences between species and techniques
Abstract: Samples of Antarctic krill collected from six seabird species and Antarctic fur seal ... the same time. The length-frequency distribution of krill was broadly similar between predators and ... that foraging techniques were more important than foraging location in influencing the type of krill in ... this time of year may reflect some combination of selectivity by predators and superior escape ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/09 : Author(s): Hill, H.J., Reid, K., Trathan, P.N., Croxall, J.P.
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Assessment models for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea for the years 1997–98 to 2010–11
Abstract: We provide an update of the Bayesian sex and age structured population stock assessment ... reference model using the selected trips tag data gave a similar, but slightly higher estimate of initial ... biomass than the 2009 base case. Retrospective analysis suggests that this is partly as a result of the ... increased number of vessels in selected data set and partly as a result of the 2010 and 2011 observations ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/42 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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OPERATIONAL DIFFICULTIES IN IMPLEMENTING THE CCAMLR TAGGING PROTOCOL IN DIVISION 58.4.1 IN 2007/08
a high mortality rate of fish on these lines; only fish with a high chance of survival were tagged ... closed on 30 January 2008). • The vessel caught a total of 9.757 t of Dissostichus mawsoni in Division ... of 3 fish tagged per tonne of green weight caught required in Conservation Measure 41-11(2007). The ... tag fish in excess of the required rate when the opportunity arose: • in Division 58.4.3a the vessel ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/16 : Author(s): A.T. Lozano and O. Pin (Uruguay)