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1. Implanted identification tags in penguins: implantation methods, tag reliability and long-term effects (draft version)

   Abstract:  Subcutaneously implanted passive transponder tags have proved to be a reliable way of ... identifying individual penguins by both manual and automated means. We have found the survival of tagged ... Ad61ie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) over five seasons to be consistently higher than that of birds ... problems associated with the use of implanted devices. The transponder removed from one bird had developed ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-Methods-96/08 : Author(s): Kerry, K., Clarke, J.

2. 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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3. Antarctic's pelagic ecosystem: how environmental change will affect Salpidae population structure

   vulnerable region of Western Antarctic. The relatively simple food web of this area relies on krill ... - Euphausia superba. Presumably as a result of climatic fluctuations, a decrease in the numbers of this ... crustacean has been recorded, followed by an increase in the population of the gelatinous zooplankter Salpa ... the summer season of 2010. It has been found that the horizontal distribution of this gelatinous ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/P08 : Author(s): A.W. Słomska, A.A. Panasiuk-Chodnicka, M.I. Żmijewska and M.K. Mańko (Poland)

4. Proposal for a Climate Change Response Work Program for CCAMLR

   of Reference of the Intersessional Correspondence Group (ICG) to develop approaches for integrating ... considerations of the impacts of climate change into the work of CCAMLR (components of TORs 7 and 8). It aims to ... build on related work of the Commission, SC-CAMLR and its working groups, and to link with related work ... of a Climate Change Response Work Program is: To provide a mechanism for identifying and revising ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/01 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia and Norway on behalf the Climate Change Intersessional Correspondence Group

5. WG-EMM-99

   -99/01 Provisional Agenda and Provisional Annotated Agenda for the 1999 Meeting of the Working Group ... on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM) WG-EMM-99/02 List of participants WG-EMM-99/03 List ... of documents WG-EMM-99/05 BENEFIT – Benguela Environment Fisheries Interaction and Training: Science ... Plan Delegation of South Africa WG-EMM-99/07 Report of the CCAMLR Synoptic Survey Planning Meeting ...

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6. 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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7. Selecting sampling frequency for measuring diving behaviour

   Abstract:  The use of time-depth recorders has revolutionised knowledge of diving activity of ... marine animals to the point where very detailed studies of variation in diving behaviour and performance ... effects detection of dives and statistics of diving behaviour is investigated, using data from Antarctic ... fur seals and southern elephant seals representative of the extremes of diving in pinnipeds. For both ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/14 : Author(s): I.L. Boyd (United Kingdom)

8. A proposal to subdivide CCAMLR Statistical Division 58.4.1 using environmental data

   1996 based on the results of an acoustic survey (BROKE) of the southernmost 873,000 km2 of this area ... (CCAMLR 1996). Detailed subsequent analysis of the results of this survey have indicated that Division ... basis of environmental data. Krill is more abundant in the western subdivision and its biomass is more ... latitudinally extensive in this area. This observed pattern appears to be historically stable. Because of the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/30 : Author(s): S. Nicol and T. Pauly (Australia)

9. Antarctic neritic krill Euphausia chrystallorophias: spatio-temporal distribution, growth and grazing rates

   Abstract:  Dynamics of distribution, growth, life span and feeding were studied in the endemic ... Antarctic euphausiid Euphausia crystallorophias in the central part of the Indian sector of the Southern ... . Both larvae and adult E.crystallorophias were found in abundance in shelf waters of 100-500 m depth ... . Maximum abundances of larvae (up to 7688 ind.∙m-2) and adults (up to 1267 ind. ∙m-2) were found in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-Joint-94/10 : Author(s): E.A. Pakhomov (Ukraine) and R. Perissinotto (South Africa)

10. 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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