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Update on the Top Predator Alliance project, 2013–14 season: Killer whales
affected by the removal of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni; ‘toothfish’) in the Ross Sea region ... . However, extreme paucity of information about the diet of TCKW, and uncertainty regarding the degree of ... fishery to TCKW and other marine mammals and (b) mitigate potential risk by implementation of management ... recorded during 5 of 8 helicopter flights. For 3 of these observations, the prey was identifiable as ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/52 : Author(s): R. Eisert, M.H. Pinkerton (New Zealand), L. Torres (USA), R.J.C. Currey, P.H. Ensor, E.N. Ovsyanikova, I.N. Visser (New Zealand) and O.T. Oftedal (USA)
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CAMLR Convention
The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is an international treaty ... that was adopted at the Conference on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources which met ... of: 33 Articles, an annex relating to an arbitration tribunal, and a statement by the Chairman of the ... Conference on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, regarding the application of the CAMLR ...
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Preliminary proposal for designation an Antarctic Specially Protected Area in the Argentine Islands Archipelago and nearby Graham Coast Antarctic Peninsula region
region of Argentine Islands Archipelago, adjacent islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago and costal oases of ... terrestrial area with marine component, which consists of inter-island water areas within the central group of ... provided research and monitoring at the Argentine Islands Archipelago, including terrestrial survey of ... almost all islands, and ice-free areas at Mainland. The distribution of different vegetation: moss ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/21 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine
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Services and roles
developing Secretariat policies and actions that strengthen the organisational resilience of CCAMLR and the ... . Communications Provides logistical and technical support for the operation of the Commission in its four official ... support to the annual meetings of the Commission, including the translation of relevant reports and ... supporting documents of the Commission, Scientific Committee and their subsidiary bodies develops and ...
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Transparency
6.1.1 Extent to which CCAMLR is operating in a transparent manner, taking into account the Code of ... 6.1.1.1 The RP acknowledged CCAMLR’s efforts to engage with a wide range of Observers and encouraged ... , particularly through the engagement of Observers at its annual meetings. Options to improve transparency with ... respect to the engagement of Observers might include: (a) reviewing and, as appropriate, amending the ...
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Chapter 5: Managing Fishing Activities
harvest strategies, plans for mandatory collection of data needed for assessing status of Antarctic marine ... living resources, biological data required to assess the composition of the catch, and reporting of ... -XXXVII, paragraph 14.3; COMM CIRCs 18/94 and 18/95 (2015) CCAMLR-XXXIV/17 Rev. 1 by the Chair of ... time limit of 3 years for new research fishing proposals, procedures for their notification, payment of ...
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SC-CAMLR-XIII
Full Name: Thirteenth Meeting of the Scientific Committee Location: Hobart, Australia Date(s ... Provisional Agenda for the Thirteenth Meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic ... Marine Living Resources SC-CAMLR-XIII/02 Annotated Provisional Agenda for the Thirteenth Meeting of the ... Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources SC-CAMLR-XIII/03 Report of the ...
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Informative approaches to ageing Antarctic fishes
Abstract: Two concepts can be examined when studying the age of Antarctic fishes. Age can be ... considered in terms of the passage of time (chronological age), and it can also be examined as ' ... ;physiological time'. In this regard otoliths and post-mitotic tissues may contain a large amount of ... examination of otoliths by light and scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) methodology demonstrated that rhythmic ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR/86/FA/07 : Author(s): R.L. Radtke and K.T. Hill (USA)
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Science
Science is fundamental to CCAMLR. The Convention itself was born out of the concern of scientists ... that, following unsustainable harvesting of fish in the sub-Antarctic during the late 1960s and mid ... -1970s, the emergence of interest in the large-scale exploitation of Antarctic krill may have drastic ... attention on scientific study as an essential basis for protection and rational use of Antarctic marine ...
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Krill fishery report: 2007 update
for krill in Area 48 in the 2006/07 season, and these vessels have taken 61876 t of krill to date. Two ... CCAMLR scientific observers have been deployed. The preliminary estimate of the total catch of krill for ... the season is approximately 111746 t. This compares with 106589 t of krill reported in the STATLANT ... data for 2005/06. With the exception of Korea and Poland, all Contracting Parties have submitted ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/05 : Author(s): Secretariat