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An investigation of avoidance by Antarctic krill of RRS James Clark Ross using the Autosub-2 autonomous underwater vehicle
Abstract: The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Autosub-2 was deployed on eight missions ahead ... of RRS James Clark Ross in the northern Weddell Sea and in the Bransfield Strait to assess avoidance ... of the research vessel by Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. The AUV was equipped with the same type ... of scientific echosounder as the research vessel (Simrad EK500 operating at 38 kHz and 120 kHz) and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/14 : Author(s): A.S. Brierley, P.G. Fernandes, M.A. Brandon, E. Armstrong, D.G. Bone and the Autosub Team (United Kingdom)
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Preliminary proposal for designation an Antarctic Specially Protected Area in the Argentine Islands Archipelago and nearby Graham Coast Antarctic Peninsula region
Abstract: Ukraine is planned to establish the Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) at the ... region of Argentine Islands Archipelago, adjacent islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago and costal oases of ... nearby Graham Coast Antarctic Peninsula (short abbreviation – AIGC ASPA). This ASPA will include the ... terrestrial area with marine component, which consists of inter-island water areas within the central group of ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/21 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine
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Revised proposal for a CCAMLR sponsored research survey to monitor abundance of pre-recruit Antarctic toothfish in the southern Ross Sea
Abstract: At its 2010 meeting, the Scientific Committee agreed that a time series of recruitments ... from a well- designed survey in the Ross Sea could be a useful input into the stock assessment model ... survey was presented to the 2011 meeting of WG-SAM. In this paper we provide an update of the preliminary ... proposal by taking into account the comments of WG-SAM. It provides the scientific rationale and background ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/47 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede, S.J. Parker and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Krill (Euphausia superba) distribution in relation to water movement and phytoplankton distribution off the northern South Shetland Islands
Abstract: The waters in the vicinity of the South Shetland Islands and Elephant Island were ... surveyed to investigate mechanisms for the formation of krill concentrations and to estimate acoustic ... biomass of krill in the 1990/91 austral summer. Main krill concentrations occurred in the shelf waters ... north of the islands, as usual. Tracks of drifting buoys (with curtain drogues at 30 m depth where krill ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/22 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan
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Quantifying vessel performance in the CCAMLR tagging program: spatially and temporally controlled measures of relative mortality and tag-detection rates
Abstract: A reliable commercial tagging program is critical to the successful management by ... CCAMLR of a number of toothfish fisheries in Antarctica, but the evaluation of tagging performance has ... been thus far inconclusive because the confounding effect of factors such as time and location of ... , by controlling for the spatial and temporal confounding factors using a case-control study design, we ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/47 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Developing the Secretariat’s data management systems
Abstract: The CCAMLR Secretariat’s data management systems provide the secure infrastructure and ... repository for CCAMLR data which are submitted by CCAMLR Members to support the policy, scientific and ... administrative work of the Commission and Scientific Committee. These systems are being redeveloped as part of a ... long-term program of work which started in 2013. The work has focused on the development of structural ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/BG/25 Rev. 1 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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The fishery for Champsocephalus gunnari and its biology at Heard Island (Division 58.5.2)
Abstract: Commercial trawl fisheries in the modern era started within the Heard Island EEZ in ... 1997. This paper summarises the fishing activities to date and collates the information on the biology ... of the species gathered from the fishery and from a series of fishery-independent surveys conducted ... between 1990 and 2000. Icefish abundance varies widely between years and the fishery is dependent on ...
Meeting Document : WAMI-01/04 : Author(s): R. Williams, E. van Wijk, A. Constable and T. Lamb (Australia)
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Squalus acanthias – a new species in the Antarctic ichthyofauna (Division 58.5.1)
Abstract: Four species of shark have been known to date to occur in the sub-Antarctic waters ... was captured in February 1995 on the shelf of the Kerguelen Islands from the depth of about 195 m and ... duly described. Squalus acanthias is believed to be one of the most widespread shark species in the ... World Ocean. The fact of capturing this species in the Kerguelen waters enlarges by far its range and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/14 : Author(s): Pshenichnov, L.K.
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Research plan for the Spanish exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2: preliminary results of stage 1 (2012/13 season)
Abstract: The Spanish vessel Tronio started the research plan in the 2012/13 season using the ... Spanish bottom longline system. One depletion experiments was completed in each of the SSRU surveyed ... (58.4.1H and 58.4.1G). Three prospecting-phase clusters of sets did not reach the established threshold to ... start the depletion. A prospective estimation of the local biomass (B LOC) of the two localized areas ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/30 : Author(s): R. Sarralde, L.J. López Abellán and S. Barreiro (Spain)
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Reconciling theoretical versus empirical target strengths of krill; effects of phase variability on the distorted wave Born approximation
Abstract: A model was recently proposed to predict the target strengths (TS) of Antarctic krill ... ]. Based on the distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA), the model depends upon the coherent summation of ... broadside incidence (?? 90°), but large discrepancies were observed at other angles away from the main lobe ... . As the side-lobe measurements were both higher than the model predictions and above the noise floor ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/50 : Author(s): D.A. Demer and S.G. Conti (USA)