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About CCAMLR
Conserving Antarctic marine life The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ... Resources (CCAMLR) was established by international convention in 1982 with the objective of conserving ... , a keystone component of the Antarctic ecosystem and a history of over-exploitation of several other ... of Antarctic marine ecosystems, CCAMLR practises an ecosystem-based management approach. This does ...
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Acceding States
Ten States have acceded to the Convention. The Status of the Convention is maintained by the ... Executive Director National Agency of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 17 ... Ministry of Marine Resources PO Box 85 Avarua Rarotonga Cook Islands Email: p [dot] maru [at] mmr [dot] gov ... [dot] ck Finland Embassy of Finland 12 Darwin Avenue Yarralumla ACT 2600 Australia Email: sanomat [dot ...
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Internship opportunities
The Secretariat provides occasional internship opportunities of two types. Translator internships ... is a citizen of a Member of the Commission. International internship opportunities will be advertised ... scientific subjects are open for application from any person who is a citizen of a Member of the Commission ... opportunity to gain experience in the work of a multilateral conservation and management organisation as well ...
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Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs)
protocols for fishing vessels. A range of Conservation measures have been put in place by CCAMLR to address ... the protection of VMEs. The adverse impacts of bottom fishing on marine ecosystems is widely ... areas beyond national jurisdiction. The global concern about the adverse effects of bottom fisheries has ... placed the issue on the agenda of the United Nations Open-Ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans ...
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Compliance
CCAMLR implements measures to support the conservation and management of Antarctic living marine ... resources by reducing the risk harvesting activities may have on the sustainability of target species, on ... of compliance with conservation measures and has been pioneering in its endeavors to achieve this ... . CCAMLR has adopted a conservation measure to support the implementation of a Compliance Evaluation ...
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Conservation measures
CCAMLR implements a comprehensive set of measures in order to support the conservation of ... Antarctic marine living resources and the management of fisheries in the Southern Ocean. These conservation ... measures are reviewed and developed at each annual meeting of the Commission, and subsequently implemented ... published in the annual Schedule of Conservation Measures in Force. Members are notified of new or amended ...
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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
protection for all or part of the natural resources it contains. Within an MPA certain activities are limited ... prohibited, as well as areas where under specific circumstances and with the objective of promoting research ... objectives of the MPA. Other uses may also be permitted. Areas closed to fishing (or in which fishing ... the relative impacts of fishing and other changes, such as those arising from climate change. This can ...
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First CCAMLR Performance Review
review of the organisation during 2008. CCAMLR’s decision provided for the review to be carried out by a ... panel appointed by the Commission composed of nine persons as follows: four internationally recognised ... experts with CCAMLR experience; the Chair of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting’s Committee for ... with experience in relevant areas of science, fisheries management and legal matters. Report of the ...
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International Antarctic marine experts meet in Hobart
MEDIA RELEASE 22 October 2018 The Governor of Tasmania, Her Excellency Professor the Honourable ... Kate Warner AC, will today open the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Commission for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). The Governor will welcome some 280 marine ... representative system of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Antarctic Review cooperation with adjacent ...
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Marine Debris
standardised set of forms and instructions covering marine debris from beach surveys, debris associated with ... seabird colonies, entanglements of marine mammals, and hydrocarbon soiling of mammals and seabirds. The ... on Sub-Antarctic islands. Protection of the Antarctic marine environment is a matter of concern to ... CCAMLR as the general health of the environment affects the species covered by the Convention. In ...
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