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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 2001/02
Abstract: The results of the sixth annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 2001/2002 summer season. There was a single sighting of ... a seal wearing a neck collar of man-made debris. Data are compared with results from a parallel ... that the number of entangled fur seals had increased by 118% compared to the previous year, this being ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/06 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Day 1 - Session 3 - Role and Importance of PSMA - Matthew Camilleri
: Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) A Working group of the NEPADS ... ’ International Partnership for African Fisheries Programme Role and importance of Port State controls in ... ) Fishing Workshop Cape Town 24-27 July 2012 Port State controls/measures • Designation of ports ... • Advance notification • Inspections at port • Prohibition of landing or transhipping • Denial of access ...
Document : Site Section: Compliance
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MODELING PREDATION BY TRANSIENT LEOPARD SEALS FOR AN ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT OF SOUTHERN OCEAN FISHERIES
Abstract: Correctly quantifying the impacts of rare apex marine predators is essential to ... prey vulnerability. We combined these uncertainties to evaluate the predatory impact of transient ... leopard seals on a community of mesopredators (seals and penguins) and their prey at South Georgia, and ... -selective predation and prey vulnerability. A population of 104 (90–125) leopard seals, of which 64%were ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P08 : Author(s): J. Forcada, D. Malone, J.A. Royle and I.J. Staniland
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Revised research plan for the 2013/14 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.2
last WG-SAM meeting. We tentatively recalculated a sample size of Dissostichus spp in each block in ... such a way that the numbers of tag recoveries in the 2016 season shows an approximately 0.3 of ... coefficient variance of biomass estimate from the bootstrapped procedure, under the condition that the ... block, in order to promote successful stock assessment. We tentatively examined the degree of coverage ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/39 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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A meta-analysis of by-catch in the Ross Sea toothfish fishery
Abstract: Following the recommendation of WG-FSA in 2014 the Secretariat has undertaken an ... analysis of bycatch in CCAMLR longline fisheries. The numerical target catch ratio (the number of target ... fish as a proportion of the total number of fish caught), using haul by haul data from the Ross Sea ... toothfish fishery from 2008 – 2014, was used as a single metric to examine the amount of bycatch reported by ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/04 Rev. 1 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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Satellite tracking of black-browed and light-mantled sooty albatrosses from Heard Island and potential interactions with fisheries
Abstract: The purpose of this document is to inform CCAMLR of the results of a satellite tracking ... ). This was the first time the movements of either species from the island had been studied. Ten black ... foraged on the shelf break within 150 km of Heard Island, and focused 75% of their foraging time in waters ... over submarine canyons on Gunneri Ridge, north east of the island. There was considerable spatial ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/14 : Author(s): K. Lawton, R. Kirkwood and G. Robertson (Australia)
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Susceptibility to oxidative stress in different species of Antarctic birds: preliminary results
against toxicity of reactive oxygen species (ROS). These highly reactive molecules are normally produced ... during the 4-electrons reduction of molecular oxygen to water coupled with oxidative phosphorylation and ... during the activity of several enzymatic systems which produce ROS as intermediates. If the antioxidant ... capacity is exceeded (i.e. as a consequence of enhanced intracellular formation of ROS) a pathological ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/59 : Author(s): S. Corsolini, F. Regoli, S. Olmastroni, M. Nigro and S. Focardi (Italy)
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Trophic relations of the cephalopod Martialia hyadesi (Teuthoidea: Ommastrephidae) at the Antarctic Polar Front, Scotia Sea
Abstract: Samples of the squid, Martialia hyadesi, were collected aboard two Japanese squid ... Sea in February 1989. The dissected stomachs of 61 specimens were classified according to fullness and ... proportion of the sample had been feeding cannibalistically. Total lengths of the fish prey were estimated ... from sagital otolith size using published relationships. All fish were relatively small; 7- 35% of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XI/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Summer survey of fur seals at Prince Edward Island, southern Indian Ocean
Abstract: The onshore distributions and the abundances of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus ... the entire south-west coast of Prince Edward Island. Of the two colonies of Antarctic fur seals, the ... colony among Subantarctic fur seals north of Boggel Beach remained small, with increased numbers of ... remained free of Subantarctic fur seals and had expanded at a mean intrinsic rate of natural increase of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P15 : Author(s): M.N. Bester, P.G. Ryan and J. Visagie
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Report of the UK groundfish survey at South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3) in January 2015
Abstract: In January 2015 the UK undertook a bottom trawl survey of CCAMLR sub-Area 48.3 on the ... FV New Polar. A total of 77 random and representative hauls were completed giving good geographic ... coverage and encompassing depths between 108 and 352m. The overall biomass of mackerel icefish ... (Champsocephalus gunnari) was calculated at 48,543 tonnes with a lower 1-sided 95% interval estimate of 29,300t ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/30 : Author(s): M. Belchier, S. Gregory, N. Fallon, J. McKenna, S. Hill, M. Soffker (United Kingdom), P. Lafite (South Africa) and L. Featherstone (United Kingdom)