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A proposal for streamlining the work of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Abstract: The work of the Scientific Committee is expanding with a duplication of many functions ... which there is insufficient time at present in the existing working groups, such as consideration of ... marine protected areas in a CCAMLR context and the development and evaluation of management strategies ... for CCAMLR fisheries. It is proposed that the working groups of the Scientific Committee be revised to ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/30 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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BOOK REVIEW: WHALES OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: BIOLOGY, WHALING, AND PERSPECTIVES OF POPULATION RECOVERY by Y. A. Mikhalev
Abstract: Examined the distribution and migration patterns of whales in the Southern Hemisphere ... . The presence of a new species of killer whale in the Antarctic, Orcinus nana, is shown. The impacts of ... extermination of whales in the Antarctic ecosystem are examined. Regions are defined which could be used as ... testing areas for whale survey methods. Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine Title: BOOK REVIEW: WHALES OF ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/11 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine
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Distribution and abundance of krill in the vicinity of Elephant Island in the 1992 austral summer
in the vicinity of Elephant Island, Antarctica, from mid-January to mid-March, 1992. The first and ... surveys covered a 60 by 35 n.mi. area immediately north of Elephant Island. During the first survey, krill ... were distributed in a wide band extending along the north side of Elephant Island and wrapping around ... highest densities of krill were over the shelf extending to the northwest from Elephant Island and ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/15 : Author(s): R.P. Hewitt and D.A. Demer (USA)
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Seabird and longline interactions: effects of a bird-scaring streamer line and line shooter on the incidental capture of northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis
coast of Norway. We compared the bycatch rate of northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis, the loss rate of ... baits to fulmars and the catch rates of fish target species among lines set with either of these ... mitigation measures, a combination of both and no mitigation measure. A total of 58,420 hooks were set in ... each of the four treatments. No birds were caught using the bird-scaring line alone and a single fulmar ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/78 : Author(s): S. Løkkeborg (Norway) and G. Robertson (Australia)
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Standing stock, spatial distribution and biological features of demersal finfish from the 2006 US AMLR bottom trawl survey of the northern Antarctic Peninsula and Joinville–D’Urville Islands (Subarea 48.1)
trawl survey of the northern Antarctic Peninsula (southern Bransfield Strait) and Joinville/D’Urville ... Islands. This area included the likely historical fishing grounds of a trawl fishery for the spiny icefish ... to the south. Estimates of seabed area by strata between 50-500 m for the region surveyed are ... dietary patterns from the survey is presented. Most biomass of finfish in this region occurs around the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/14 : Author(s): C.D. Jones (USA) and K.-H. Kock (Germany)
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Occurrence of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) concentrations in the vicinity of the South Shetland Islands: relationship to environmental parameters
Abstract: The influences of abiotic and biotic parameters on the occurrence of Antarctic krill ... (Euphausia superba) concentrations were studied in the waters north of the South Shetland Islands, a major ... the occurrence of high krill concentrations in these waters. Drifting buoys indicated that the surface ... water circulation in areas of krill concentrations was characterized by a sluggish current with eddies ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/18 : Author(s): T. Ichii, K. Kayatama, N. Obitsu, H. Ishii and M. Naganobu (Japan)
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Distribution patterns and biomasses of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and ice krill (E. crystallorophias) with note on distribution of Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) in the Ross Sea in 2005
Abstract: Distribution patterns and biomasses of Antarctic and ice krill in the Ross Sea in ... obtained from samples of RMT hauls and stomach contents of Antarctic minke whales. Ice krill was ... Ross Sea was stratified into two strata based on the distribution patterns of two krill species to ... estimate their biomasses. Biomass densities of Antarctic krill using KM and KS2 data were estimated as 5.13 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/35 : Author(s): H. Murase, H. Yasuma, R. Matsukura, Y. Takao, K. Taki, T. Hayashi, T. Yabuki, T. Tamura, K. Konishi, K. Matsuoka, K. Miyashita, S. Nishiwaki and M. Naganobu (Japan)
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Revision of icefish (C. gunnari) stock estimate in the South Georgia area on the basis of the Russian trawl-acoustic survey 2002
Abstract: Revision of icefish (С.gunnari) stock estimate in South Georgia Area was caused by ... elaboration of the following methodical aspects of trawl-acoustic survey: the processing method improvement ... for target strength estimates using in situ measurement data; the combination of trawl and acoustic ... estimates and its statistical characteristics. Major sources of uncertainties in icefish stock estimates and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-04/10 : Author(s): Gasyukov, P.S., Kasatkina, S.M.
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Swarm characteristics of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba relative to the proximity of land during summer in the Scotia Sea
Abstract: We studied the relationship between the proximity of land and the distribution and ... swarming characteristics of Antarctic krill across the Scotia Sea in January and February 2003. Krill ... -sectional areas of swarms were significantly larger inshore, with a mean value of 120 m 2 in the 0 to 50 km ... zone compared to <80 m 2 further offshore. The packing concentration of krill within inshore swarms ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P09 : Author(s): T. Klevjer, G.A. Tarling and S. Fielding
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Censuses in the northernmost colony of Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) in the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula at Snow Hill Island, Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Abstract: Breeding colonies of the emperor penguin Aptenodytes forsteri are distributed ... throughout the Antarctic seasonal pack ice zone. One of the last colonies of emperors penguins discovered is ... situated on the south coast of Snow Hill Island, constituting the northernmost colony known in Antarctica ... . We conducted a census of adult individuals using aerial photographs taken from an aircraft flight ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/56 : Author(s): M. Libertelli and N. Coria (Argentina)