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Modelling the impact of krill fishing on seal and penguin colonies
Abstract: A key area of concern highlighted by the Scientific Committee of the Commission for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) concerns the potential overlap of the krill fishery ... with the foraging area of land-based predators such as seals and penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula ... region. The dynamics of krill in this region are strongly influenced by advective processes. A key ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/14 : Author(s): É.E. Plagányi and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)
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Mackerel icefish biomass and distribution on the results of acoustic survey carried out in February–March 2002
Abstract: Results of the acoustic survey of icefish carried out by Russian vessel STM-8390 ... estimates of icefish were made by comparison an observed TS in situ histograms with the size composition of ... the ensonified fish, obtained by trawling. Results of acoustic estimates of icefish biomass and ... abundance values by size class in pelagic zone and in the near-bottom 8m layer (covered by bottom trawling ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/44 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina, V.Yu. Sunkovich, A.P. Malyshko and Zh.A. Frolkina
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Physical oceanographic setting of the Siedlecki January 1987, South Shetland Island data set
Abstract: In the vicinity of the northern tip of Antarctic Peninsula, the Bransfield Straits and ... South Shetland Islands, cold polar waters from the Weddell Sea meet warmer circumpolar water from the ... Pacific Ocean. A series of fronts form which collectively are referred to as the Weddell-Scotia Confluence ... . Within the Confluence region the Weddell Gyre water is separated from the Pacific or Scotia Sea water by ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/19 : Author(s): United States of America
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A characterisation of the toothfish fishery in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 from 1997–98 to 2013–14
Abstract: This report summarises the timing, depth, and location of fishing together with the ... biological aspects and catch of Antarctic toothfish up to an including the 2014 season. In 2014, the Ross Sea ... slope SSRUs were not constrained by sea ice and catches were evenly distributed across the three SSRUs ... . As in recent years, the remaining catches came mainly from SSRUs 88.1C, 88.1J, and 88.2H ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/52 : Author(s): M. Stevenson, S. Hanchet, S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Evaluation of Antarctic krill biomass and distribution off the South Orkney Islands 2011-2015
Abstract: Annual acoustic trawl surveys for krill monitoring have been carried out by the ... Institute of Marine research, Norway near the South Orkney Islands since 2011. The survey has been conducted ... early in the fishing season (January/February), using two different krill fishing vessels as platforms ... . The vessels were equipped with similar Simrad echo sounder systems suitable for quantitative ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/54 : Author(s): G. Skaret, B.A. Krafft, L. Calise (Norway), J. Watkins (UK), R. Pedersen and O.R. Godø (Norway)
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Revised research plan for the 2016/17 toothfish fishery in Division 58.4.4b by Japan and France
Abstract: Japan and France have revised the next season’s (2016/17) research plan in research ... blocks 58.4.4b_1 and 58.4.4b_2 using the latest CCAMLR C2 and Observer data, following several advices ... August for the current analysis, but not used the cleaning data provided by them in this early September ... due to tight schedule for the submission. The estimated median stock size in block 58.4.4b_1 and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/33 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of Japan and France
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Summary of research voyages in the South Orkney Islands region in 2015/16
Abstract: Two scientific research voyages were undertaken on board the RRS James Clark Ross in ... the South Orkney Islands region during the 2015/16 austral summer. These surveys together involved ... inform the further development of spatial management, including feedback management of the krill fishery ... , in this region. The South Orkneys Ecosystems Studies cruise (SOES, Jan-Feb 2016) was led by the UK ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/BG/28 : Author(s): Delegations of the United Kingdom and Norway
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On biogeographic patterns of benthic invertebrate mega fauna on shelf areas of the Southern Ocean Atlantic sector
Abstract: The ideal approach to bioregionalisation of Antarctic and Southern Ocean shelf ... communities incorporates a range of data on physical, environmental and biological properties, as well as the ... the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean were analysed quantitatively from scientific survey trawl ... scale, with an ultimate aim of determining broad patterns of distribution. The region for which the ...
Meeting Document : WS-BSO-07/10 : Author(s): S.J. Lockhart and C.D. Jones (USA)
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Horizontal and vertical distribution and demography of euphausiids in the Ross Sea and its adjacent waters in 2004/2005
Abstract: The horizontal and vertical distribution and population structure of euphausiids in the ... Ross Sea and its adjacent waters were investigated during the summers of 2004/2005 using stratified ... towed samples. Nine species of euphausiids occurred in the survey area. Among them, Euphausia triacantha ... was dominant in biomass north of the southern boundary of the Antarctic circumpolar current (SB ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P10 : Author(s): K. Taki, T. Yabuki, Y. Noiri, T. Hayashi and M. Naganobu
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A proposal for the establishment of a Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area
Abstract: The delegations of New Zealand and the United States submit this revised proposal for ... the establishment of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Ross Sea Region (“Ross Sea Region Marine ... Protected Area”) by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (Commission or ... , including through the establishment of reference areas. We thank Members for the many constructive ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIII/21 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and the USA