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1. ASPAs and ASMAs

   designated under the Antarctic Treaty as areas of special scientific or biological significance. The ... Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty manages a database on the locations of ASPAs and ASMAs, and information on ... their management plans and purposes for designation. The location of ASPAs and ASMAs are shown as a ...

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2. Information from Members on observer training programs

   Abstract:  These drafts of new French plates are using a range of pictures to provide a gradient ... of images for each gonad stage instead of just one typical view. This would aim to obtain more ...

   Meeting Document : TASO-10/05 : Author(s): Secretariat

3. Second International Fishers Forum: executive summary Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

   Abstract:  While work to develop solutions to reduce the bycatch of seabirds and sea turtles by ... the waters of many nations during their life cycle. To further this cause, the Western Pacific Fishery ... , New Zealand in November 2000. IFF2 widened the focus of IFF1 to address the bycatch of sea turtles as ... 3, followed by a final day of concluding exercises and the production of an IFF2 Resolution. Title ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/25

4. Connectivity and population structure in Pleuragramma antarcticum along the west Antarctic Peninsula

   connectivity, by testing between rival hypotheses of population segregation and linkage. If independent ... , reduction in sea-ice along the WAP may lead to extinction of local populations through drastic mortality of ... populations at 1) the north tip of the Peninsula, and 2) the southern WAP encompassing Charcot Island and ... Marguerite Bay, with no mixing between. The presence of a single length mode at Charcot Island and Marguerite ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/16 : Author(s): J. Ashford, J. Ferguson, A. Piñones, J. Torres and W. Fraser

5. Seabird by-catch by tuna longline fisheries off southern Africa, 1998–2000

   Abstract:  The incidental mortality of seabirds in tuna longline fisheries is estimated for the ... , seabird bycatch rates were high, with a mean of 1.6 birds killed per 1 000 hooks. Japanese vessels (1 ... African vessels (0.8, range 0.0–4.3; 17% effort observed), possibly as a result of gear differences. Bird ... bycatch differed regionally in relation to the numbers of birds attending vessels. In international waters ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/28 : Author(s): P.G. Ryan, D.G. Keith and M. Kroese (South Africa)

6. Revised research plan for toothfish in Division 58.4.4 a & b by Shinsei maru No. 3 in 2013/14

   Abstract:  We revised stock status assessments of D. eleginoides in SSRUs C and D using ... stock sizes of D. eleginoides in SSRU D is estimated only by using CPUE comparison with the stock size ... of a total of 50 tonnes in SSRUs C and D for the 2013/14 as in the 2012/13, thereafter, the phase of ... the survey will be moved from effort limited to catch limited. Author(s):  Delegation of Japan Title ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/36 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

7. Gonad stages identification plate: proposal for collaborative work

   Abstract:  These drafts of new French plates are using a range of pictures to provide a gradient ... of images for each gonad stage instead of just one typical view. This would aim to obtain more ...

   Meeting Document : TASO-10/04 : Author(s): N. Gasco (France)

8. Developing a penguin tracking database to help determine their most important foraging areas

   Plus Fund) to build an integrated database that would facilitate the analysis of penguin tracking data ... attach a range of access levels; access may be granted only to the data holder, to a wider group, or to a ... inform a variety of CCAMLR analyses, including work on the development of a variety of feedback ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/18 : Author(s): M. Hindell (SCAR), B. Lascelles (BirdLife) and P. Trathan (United Kingdom)

9. Beach litter accumulation at sub-Antarctic Marion Island – 1998/99

   Abstract:  As part of an ongoing study on Subantarctic Marion Island, we report on beach litter ... accunmulation for the year May 1998- April 1999. The amount of debris found in both annual and monthly ... and proportion of styrofoam items. Plastic items were most numerous this season, while styrofoam ... effect and high turnover rate, highlights the dangers of single annual surveys. Author(s):  Delegation of ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVIII/BG/22 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa

10. Estimating unaccounted fishing mortality in the Ross Sea and 88.2C–G bottom longline fisheries targeting Antarctic toothfish

    Abstract:  Stock assessments rely upon estimates of the total mortality resulting from fishing ... activities. The level of mortality resulting from the loss of sections of bottom longline gear in the Ross ... Antarctic toothfish fisheries. Our estimates suggest that on average 175–244 t of Antarctic toothfish may be ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/48 : Author(s): D.N. Webber and S.J. Parker (New Zealand)

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