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History of the Convention
) to potential threats to Antarctic marine ecosystems occurring as a result of increased commercial ... interest in Antarctic fisheries resources, including krill. Drawing on the advice of the Scientific ... the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. That Conference resulted in the negotiation of ... Treaty to promote the preservation and conservation of living resources in Antarctica. Confined to the ...
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Spatial and seasonal distribution of adult Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean: predictions using boosted regression trees
trees to derive relationships between environmental conditions and the distribution of the adult stage ... of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean. Nearly 20 000 samples from the ... probability of detection (presence) and relative abundance of adults of this zooplankton species in surface ... the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve of 0.77) and relative abundance (28–35% variance explained ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P14 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, A.N.H. Smith, B. Raymond, G.W. Hosie, B. Sharp, J.R. Leathwick and J.M. Bradford-Grieve
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Spatial distribution of foraging by female Antarctic fur seals
Abstract: The study tested the hypothesis that the distribution of critical habitat for foraging ... by female Antarctic fur seals breeding at the island of South Georgia was influenced by physical ... hypothesis that fur seal predation was capable of causing local depletion of prey species. When foraging in ... support of dependent offspring, fur seals travelled down physical gradients defined by the bathymetric ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/26 : Author(s): I.L. Boyd, I.J. Staniland and A.R. Martin (United Kingdom)
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Interannual variations of water thermochaline structure on South Georgia Island, South Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands shelves
Abstract: Basing on the analysis of major water mass boundaries and their thermochaline ... area of South Orkney Isls and Shetland Isls in January-February since 1970. Three types of years have ... been singled out for the area of South Orkney Isls. The first type was characterized by presence of ... intermediate cold layer. In some years of this type (1 97 1, 1972, 1978, 1982) the layer had positive ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/34 : Author(s): P. Chernyshkov, V. Shnar, O. Berezhinsky and I. Polischuk (Russia)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1997/98
Abstract: The results of the second annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 1997/98 summer season. There were six sightings of ... seals wearing neck collars of man-made debris, half the number reported in 1996/97. All of the animals ... involved were juvenile males, the main component of the population seen at Signy Island at this time of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVII/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Dynamic of the krill fishery in the Area 48 and its relation to climate variability and changes in fishing technology
Abstract: The authors analyzed the spatial-temporal structure of standardized indices of catch ... per effort unit (CPUE) of Antarctic krill fishery in the Area 48 in relation to dynamic of ААО ... indices (Antarctic Oscillation Index) as one of the factors used in analysis of inter-annual and long ... -period fluctuations of hydrometeorological conditions at high latitudes of the southern hemisphere ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/25 : Author(s): P.S. Gasyukov and S.М Kаsatkina (Russia)
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Distribution of foraging by female Antarctic fur seals
Abstract: The study examined the distribution of critical habitat for foraging by female ... Antarctic fur seals breeding at the island of South Georgia. Bathymetric features of the continental shelf ... around the island of South Georgia were an important indicator for the localisation of foraging. This ... pattern was consistent among years of different prey availability. Lactating females were constrained to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/38 : Author(s): I.L. Boyd, I.J. Staniland and A.R. Martin (United Kingdom)
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Power analyses of CEMP indices for penguins at Admiralty Bay and fur seals at Cape Shirreff and Seal Island
Abstract: We used the program MONITOR to conduct a set of power analyses for CEMP indices ... describe the likelihood of rejecting null hypotheses stating that the slopes of linear models relating the ... values of transformed CEMP indices to breeding year are equal to zero when, in fact, these trends ... actually exist. We estimated the power of rejecting these null hypotheses at three levels of? (the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/52 : Author(s): G.M. Watters, R.P. Hewitt, W.Z. Trivelpiece and M.E. Goebel (USA)
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Mackerel icefish Champsocephalus gunnari in the diet of upper trophic level predators at South Georgia: implications for fisheries management
Abstract: Mackerel Icefish Champsocephalus gunnari Lönnberg is an important component of the ... important prey species for a number of upper trophic level predators, and is the target of commercial ... fisheries. Data on the frequency and size structure of C. gunnari in the diet of Antarctic fur seals ... used to examine the trophic interactions and evaluate the potential impact of predators on the C ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/74 : Author(s): K. Reid, S. Hill and T. Diniz (United Kingdom)
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Report on fishery and scientific activity of Ukraine in the Antarctic in 1993/94
Abstract: In the season of 1993-1994 Ukrainian fishing fleet conducted fisheries in two areas of ... Antarctic waters of the World Ocean: in the Atlantic (subareas 48.2 and 48.3) and the Indian (zone of the ... in subarea 48.2 from 01.03.1994 to 10.04.1994 and from the middle of the second ten-day period of May ... to the middle of the first t en-day period of June. GENERAL PETROV worked from 21.04 to 17.05 in ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIII/BG/12 : Author(s): Observer (Ukraine)