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Proposal for an extension to the mark recapture experiment to estimate toothfish population size in Subarea 48.4
Abstract: 1. So far a total of 929 D. eleginoides have been tagged and released at Subarea 48.4 ... assessment of D. eleginoides stock size in the Northern Area of 48.4 estimates a vulnerable biomass of ... 48.4 in the 2008/09 fishing season so as to allow for a full assessment of D. eleginoides stock size in ... southern area of Subarea 48.4. This has the aims of providing the data required for assessments of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/46 : Author(s): J. Roberts and D. J. Agnew (UK)
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Scientific Committee
all Members of the Commission are also Members of the Scientific Committee. The Scientific Committee ... Commission. In turn, the Commission is obligated by the Convention to take full account of the ... recommendations and advice of the Scientific Committee in making its decisions. The Scientific Committee takes ... into account the outcomes of research from national programs of CCAMLR Members. In addition CCAMLR has ...
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The Ross Sea cephalopod community: insights from stable isotope analysis
identified as having relatively high importance in the food-web of the Ross Sea. However, information on the ... trophic ecology of the cephalopod assemblage of the Ross Sea region is poor. Stable isotope signatures of ... nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon (δ 13 C) were determined in muscle and beak tissue from a range of cephalopod ... stomachs of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni returned from the longline fishery. Most octopods were ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/55 : Author(s): D.R. Thompson, M.H. Pinkerton, D.W. Stevens (New Zealand), Y. Cherel (France), S.J. Bury (New Zealand)
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Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) population winter/summer behaviour and CEMP time-lapse cameras validation at Galindez Island in the 2018/19 season
during 2018-19 season. The detailed observation of bird arrival, nesting, hatch and crèche has been ... results of visual survey of penguin population and penguin count. During the 2018/19 season biologist ... of gentoo GBV and GPP sites. The results of visual observations of penguin population changes are ... discussed. The two seasons of the data validation experiment have been provided for pictures from time-lapse ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine
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To what extent do type C killer whales (Orcinus orca) feed on Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica?
. It is also possible that changes in killer whale feeding can affect the structure and stability of ... commonly observed carrying toothfish in their mouths; (2) comparison of the relative nutrient density of ... toothfish with silverfish and other prey shows that toothfish represent a high-energy food resource of much ... higher quality than other potential prey in the Ross Sea region; (3) densities of other alternative ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/29 : Author(s): L. Torres, M.H. Pinkerton (New Zealand), R. Pitman, J. Durban (USA) and R. Eisert (New Zealand)
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Seabird research at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica, 2004/05
Abstract: The eighth complete consecutive season of data collection at Cape Shirreff has enabled ... decline over the past six years, and is at its lowest size in the past eight years of study, and fledging ... success was poor compared to earlier years of study. The gentoo breeding population, in contrast, has ... of both species decreased from last year, and were the lowest average weights seen over nine years ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/9 : Author(s): A.K. Miller, E. Leung and W.Z. Trivelpiece (USA)
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Fishing gear, marine debris and oil associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2002/03
Abstract: This report describes and quantifies occurrences of fishing gear, marine debris and oil ... such annual report. As in most previous years, more items of fishing gear (mostly longlining gear) and ... , though numbers of both decreased slightly since last year. The quantity of fishing gear associated with ... giant petrels (northern and southern) was the second highest on record, and included five cases of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXII/BG/09 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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APPLICATION TO UNDERTAKE WINTER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN CCAMLR SUBAREA 88.1 (SSRUS 88.1B, 88.1C AND 88.1G) IN THE 2008/09 SEASON
of the life cycle of D. mawsoni in the Ross Sea by collecting biological samples from a broad spread ... of locations across the northern Ross Sea during the austral winter. The survey is designed to ... collect information that should assist in the understanding of the early life history and reproduction of ... on the spawning movements of mature D. mawsoni. The results of the research will lead to improved ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/62 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Benthos by-catch study and benthic cameras deployment during the Poker 4 fish biomass survey for habitat characterisation in the Kerguelen Plateau
Abstract: The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle presented at the 2017 EMM Working Group of the ... CCAMLR a new data acquisition protocol for benthos bycatch in the French fisheries of the Southern Ocean ... protocol is based on the sampling of specimens and the weighing and photographic sampling of the whole ... developed by the MNHN, allowing to increase by 86.3 % the quantity of occurrences of organisms within the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/20 : Author(s): A. Martin, J. Blettery, N. Améziane and M. Eléaume
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CCAMLR’s role in combating IUU fishing in the Southern Ocean and globally
Abstract: Abstract The persistence of IUU fishing in the CCAMLR Area undermines the intrinsic ... values of CCAMLR and of the Antarctic Treaty. Thus, eliminating IUU fishing must continue to be a top ... priority for CCAMLR as an integral part of the Antarctic Treaty System. Thus far, in spite of the number of ... in the development of global instruments to tackle this problem is the Agreement on Port State ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/20 : Author(s): ASOC Observer