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Cooperation with others
maintains mutually beneficial relations with a wide range of other multilateral organisations, industry ... associations and civil society. Article XXIII of the CAMLR Convention provides that: The Commission and the ... within the competence of the latter. The Commission and the Scientific Committee shall co-operate, as ... appropriate, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and with other Specialised ...
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Mincing, mealing and batching: waste management strategies aimed at reducing seabird interactions with trawl vessels
to a paste before it was discharged reduced the number of seabirds around the vessels. The first ... was determined by counting the number of birds within a 40m-radius semi-circular sweep zone behind the ... vessel stern. Results from the first experiment showed that mincing reduced the numbers of large ... albatross (Diomedea spp.) feeding around the vessel, but had no significant effect on other groups of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/42 : Author(s): E. Abraham and J. Pierre (New Zealand)
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Antarctic seafloor geomorphology as a guide to benthic bioregionalisation
features of the Antarctic continental margin and adjoining ocean basins at scales of 1:1-5 million. The ... of the shelf benthic communities recognised by a number of authors. For areas off the shelf, the ... study of sea floor geomorphology from the Antarctic is that there is enough data to available already to ... margin and surrounding oceans. Studies of shelf biota that have tried to link the physical environment ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/27 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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A krill–predator–fishery model for evaluating candidate management procedures
Statistical Area 48 amongst smaller spatial units in order to minimize the localized depletion of krill in ... necessary to evaluate these procedures in terms of their likely effects on krill and predator populations as ... well as fishery performance. This evaluation must be conducted in the context of considerable ... the performance of these procedures and their sensitivity to numerical and structural uncertainty. The ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/13 : Author(s): G.M. Watters, J.T. Hinke (USA), K. Reid and S. Hill (United Kingdom)
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Bridging the krill divide: understanding cross-sector objectives for krill fishing and conservation
identify constructive ways for the three sectors to work together. The issue of krill-fishing has ... . This included shared commitment to maintaining a healthy ecosystem and support for management of the ... krill fishery that minimises the risk of negative impacts on ecosystem health. Participants generally ... agreed that current levels of fishing have a low risk of significant impacts but that there is no need to ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIII/BG/34 : Author(s): United Kingdom, Norway, Chile, ASOC and ARK
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Demersal finfish distribution, abundance and their biological characteristics in Statistical Subareas 48.1 (northern part) and 48.2 (2018–2020)
Abstract: The Republic of Chile completely revised its initial plan for a three-year project to ... study the distribution, abundance and biological characteristics of Antarctic demersal fish communities ... 2020. Based on the experience gained in the first phase of research and recommendations made by WG-SAM ... Subareas 48.1 and 48.2 in accordance with CM-24-01 is provided. The objective of this research survey is to ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-17/18 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile
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Demersal finfish distribution, abundance and their biological characteristics in Statistical Subareas 48.1 (northern part) and 48.2 (2018–2020)
Abstract: The Republic of Chile completely revised its initial plan for a three-year project to ... study the distribution, abundance and biological characteristics of Antarctic demersal fish communities ... 2020. Based on the experience gained in the first phase of research and recommendations made by WG-SAM ... Subareas 48.1 and 48.2 in accordance with CM-24-01 is provided. The objective of this research survey is to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/28 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile
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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 2017/18
to March 2018. Surveys of beached marine debris at Bird Island recorded a total of 371 items during ... ). Thirteen items of beached debris were recorded at Signy Island (operational during summer only; 6 November ... 2017 to 31 March 2018). Twenty-seven items of beached marine debris were recorded at Goudier Island ... (operational 16 November 2017 to 6 March 2018). Entanglements of seven Antarctic fur seals were observed at ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/BG/21 : Author(s): C. Waluda
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Notes for identifying the three macrourid species, M. holotrachys, M. whitsoni and M. carinatus in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3
the identification of three macrourid species caught as bycatch in the fishery for Patagonian ... scaled). The relative positioning of the second dorsal fin and the anal fin can also be used to ... scale counts were used. M.whitsoni has a head ratio (head length/inter orbital distance) of less than ... 5.2 whilst M.carinatus has a head ratio of greater than 5.2. There was some overlap in the ranges of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/29 : Author(s): S.A. Morley, M. Belchier, M.G. Purves, T. Mulvey and J. Dickson (United Kingdom)
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Interactions between longline vessels and seabirds in Kerguelen waters and a method to reduce seabird mortality
developped in the vicinity of South Georgia and Kerguelen islands, two internationally important breeding ... areas for procellariiform birds. Attractiveness of this fishery for seabirds, together with the ... incidental capture of birds and a method to reduce mortality were investigated during 13 days of fishing ... longline vessel. The main ship-following species were the white-chinned petrel (67% of the counts), the ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/12 : Author(s): Yves Cherel, Henri Weimerskirch and Guy Duhamel (France)