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INTEGRATING COUNT EFFORT BY SEASONALLY CORRECTING ANIMAL POPULATION ESTIMATES (ICESCAPE): A METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ABUNDANCE AND ITS UNCERTAINTY FROM COUNT DATA USING ADÉLIE PENGUINS AS A CASE STUDY
standardising animal count data to a common reference point of breeding chronological for species showing ... Animal Population Estimates) is suite of routines that implements a general abundance estimator ... , Southwell 2004a). Within this resampling framework all measures of uncertainty associated with originally ... achieved by standardising counts to a common reference point of breeding chronology by applying an ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/20 : Author(s): J. McKinlay, C. Southwell and R. Trebilco (Australia)
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Zooplankton target strength: volumetric or areal dependence?
Abstract: Target strengths (TS) of various zooplankton were measured at 200 kHz, 420 kHz and 1 ... MHz and the dependence of these data on animal volume versus cross-sectional area was explored The 420 ... seawater. The data were compared to both empirical and theoretical models of reduced target strength (TS ... normalized by the square of the animal length) versus ka (the product of wave number and equivalent ...
Meeting Document : WG-Krill-94/13 : Author(s): D.A. Demer and L.V. Martin (USA)
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Preliminary plan for research and monitoring in the Ross Sea region, in association with spatial marine protection
Abstract: This document provides a preliminary version of a research and monitoring plan to ... accompany a proposal to CCAMLR for the establishment of a system of MPAs in the Ross Sea region in 2012. The ... protection objectives as identified in Sharp & Watters (2011). Within each of these eight objectives ... there are identified specific objectives each of which is associated with an explicit spatial ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/57 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton and B. Sharp (New Zealand)
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Semi-automated software to count and validate Adélie penguin colonies from aerial photographs
of nesting Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), on aerial photographs of the Ross Sea sector of ... user interface program. Previously, this task had been accomplished by manual marking of printed images ... , which is slow, and highly-dependent on the skill of the operator. The basis of the semi-automated ... counts. Validation of the counts against an experienced human counter is assisted by facilities to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/54 : Author(s): S.J. McNeill, K.J. Barton and P.O’B. Lyver (New Zealand)
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Marine debris and entanglements at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, Signy Island, South Orkneys and Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula 2014–2015
to March 2015. Surveys of beached marine debris at Bird Island recorded a total of 289 and 275 items ... November 2014 to 16 March 2015) recorded no incidences of beached marine debris. One item of beached marine ... debris was recorded at Goudier Island. The first record of an entangled juvenile elephant seal was made ... at Bird Island. Entanglements of five Antarctic fur seals were observed at Bird Island, six at King ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/BG/27 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Simulating nursery areas for Antarctic krill along the western Antarctic Peninsula with relevance for the Domain 1 MPA Planning process
Antarctic marine food web. Observational and modelling studies have shown that development of the embryo and ... early larval stages of Antarctic krill (the descent-ascent cycle) is largely controlled by temperature ... that conditions a successful completion of the cycle. The objective of the present study is to estimate ... , enhanced transport of Circumpolar Deep Water and higher ocean temperatures) may alter their distribution ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina and Chile
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Managing the Ross Sea toothfish fisheries – A response to the consultation responses (COMM CIRC 18/39)
Abstract: In 2017 the fishery in the Northern Area of the Ross Sea Area 88.1 was opened for one ... Secretariat has taken note of the responses to the consultation released in COMM CIRC 18/21 (CCAMLR ... monitoring, and the calculation of closure dates, for the 2018/19 season in the Ross Sea: The Secretariat ... will follow a defined and published set of decision rules to calculate closure dates of exploratory ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/07 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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Efficiency and cost-effectiveness
resources, including those of the Secretariat Recommendation Responsible body Activities to date Status ... initiatives and the recommendations of this RP in such areas as Conservation and Management and Compliance and ... the ongoing policy of zero real growth. There may well be instances which require additional Member ... items specifically in excess of the zero-growth threshold. Without such an approach, the RP considered ...
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WG-EMM-07
Analysis of krill fishery behaviour in the southwest Atlantic: potential signals for moving fishing ... activities amongst SSMUs S. Kawaguchi, A. Constable and S. Nicol (Australia) WG-EMM-07/28 Size selectivity of ... Histopathology of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) bearing black spots S. Miwa, T. Kamaishi, T. Matsuyama, T ... . Reiss (USA) WG-EMM-07/31 2007 krill biomass update of the South Shetland and Elephant Island regions of ...
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What’s the catch? Profiling the risks and costs associated with marine protected areas and displaced fishing in the Scotia Sea
of fishing effort from closed areas, which may result in new and unexpected consequences for both ... actively being discussed for achieving a range of protection and sustainable use objectives. Here, we ... evaluated two MPA scenarios and associated displacements of the Antarctic krill fishery in the Scotia Sea by ... quantifying their potential to affect risks of depleting krill-dependent predators and costs to the fishery ...
Meeting Document : WS-SM-18/P03 : Author(s): E.S. Klein and G.M. Watters