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Anthropogenic feather soiling, marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 1998/99
Abstract: This report describes and quantifies the occurrence of anthropogenic feather soiling ... sixth year of standardised recording, an unprecedented quantity of line originating from fishing vessels ... was recorded in association with wandering albatrosses. Quantities of fishing gear remained within the ... levels of previous years for all other species, except giant petrels, which increased by 75% from the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVIII/BG/07 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Off the hook? Initiatives to reduce seabird by-catch in longline fisheries
Abstract: The recent history of global initiatives to reduce seabird by-catch in longline ... fisheries are reviewed, highlighting in turn the activities of environmental and industry non-governmental ... organizations (NGOs), national governments and inter-governmental bodies. At least 40 species of seabirds ... population decreases. An International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Longline ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/6 : Author(s): J. Cooper (South Africa), J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom) and K.S. Rivera (USA)
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FISHING EQUIPMENT, MARINE DEBRIS AND HYDROCARBON SOILING ASSOCIATED WITH SEABIRDS AT BIRD ISLAND, SOUTH GEORGIA, 2007/2008
Abstract: This report describes and quantifies occurrences of fishing gear, marine debris and ... 2008. It is the fifteenth such annual report. As in previous years, the majority of items (84%) of ... was observed in the total number of items encountered (n=116) compared with the previous season. Two ... were observed, and in both cases the fishing gear was typical of that used in longline fisheries. There ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/25 : Author(s): D. Fox (UK)
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EXPECTED TAG RECAPTURE RATES FROM NEW AND EXPLORATORY FISHERIES FOR DISSOSTICHUS SPP.
Indian Ocean sector of the CCAMLR area are examined. In particular, the potential for tagging programs in ... new and exploratory fisheries to yield sufficient data to be of use in determining TAC’s in the early ... stages of fishery development is considered. Scenarios are developed using a range of tag release rates ... , tag detection rates, natural mortality, fish movement out of the fishery, and IUU removals in order to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/63 : Author(s): J.P. McKinlay and D.C. Welsford (Australia)
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A proposal to enhance and clarify CCAMLR’s Catch Documentation Scheme
Abstract: To prevent the entry of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) toothfish ... (Dissostichus spp.) into commerce, CCAMLR’s catch documentation scheme tracks shipments from the point of ... Documentation Scheme (e-CDS) has improved the tracking of toothfish moving in trade and decreased the potential ... for fraud. It has greatly enhanced the ability of Members, as well as non-Members cooperating with ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXI/38 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA
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Antarctic sea ice losses drive gains in benthic carbon drawdown
Abstract: Loss of sea-ice, ice shelves and retreat of coastal glaciers around the Antarctic ... Peninsula in the last few years has exposed new open water, allowing large blooms of phytoplankton to ... phytoplankton die and sink to the sea-bed where the carbon is sequestered for thousands of years. This carbon ... sink acts as a negative feedback to climate change, with an estimated 2.9 million tonnes of carbon ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/BG/34 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Revised research longline fishing proposal for Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.2, second season
recommendations adopted, coordination was achieved with the Delegation of Ukraine to develop research in the ... Subarea in a collaborative way (WG-SAM-17, paragraph 4.110). In the context of the present proposal ... , with the assistance of the Secretariat, strategies to improve both proposals, and contribute with a ... Delegation of Ukraine. The Secretariat of CCAMLR is aware of this coordination and willing to offer support ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/27 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile
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Fishing equipment, marine debris and hydrocarbon soiling associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2004/05
Abstract: This report describes and quantifies occurrences of fishing gear, marine debris and oil ... such annual report. As in previous years, more items of fishing gear (mostly longlining gear) were ... being typical of those used in the Patagonian Toothfish industry. Wandering albatrosses also collected ... the most number of marine debris, though again total quantity is significantly down on previous years ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/14 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Interactions between cetaceans and fisheries in Southern Ocean
Southern Ocean in the second half of the 1980’s, interactions of cetaceans with these fisheries became ... whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Both species took substantial number of fish from the line primarily ... during day light hours. Catch rates of longliners declined to less than 50% when orcas occurred close to ... . Sperm whales became frequently entangled in the line and part of the line was lost in a number of cases ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/11 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany), M. Purves (South Africa) and G. Duhamel (France)
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Crab by-catch in the experimental toothfish pot fishery around South Georgia, 2000
Abstract: Trials of a method of fishing for toothfish using pots were undertaken by FV Argos ... Georgia from March to May 2000. A significant bycatch of crabs was encountered. Paralomis spinosissima ... between Shag Rocks and South Georgia, and highest for P. formosa in deep water north of South Georgia. Few ... crabs (3% of P. spinosissima and 10.5% of P..formosa) were males above the legal size limit and could be ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/24 : Author(s): T. Daw, D. Agnew, M. Purves, G. Pilling and C. Yau (United Kingdom)