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SLOPE CURRENTS AROUND THE KERGUELEN ISLANDS FROM DEMERSAL LONGLINE FISHING RECORDS.
Abstract: rrent (ACC), especially around the Kerguelen Islands. However, there is little ... quantitative knowledge of the current field around the islands due to lack of long-term current measurements ... (Dissostichus eleginoides) fisheries in Kerguelen waters. This enabled the construction of a realistic field of ... depth-averaged time-mean slope currents along the 1000 m isobath all around the Kerguelen Islands ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/P06 : Author(s): Y.-H. Park, N. Gasco and G. Duhamel (France)
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Fish by-catch in the krill fishery: 2017 update
Abstract: Data on fish by-catch in the krill fishery from commercial catch data (100 153 hauls ... ) and CCAMLR SISO data (20 766 hauls) up to 1 Sept 2017 was used to examine the frequency of occurrence ... , length-frequency distribution and geographic provenance of the key fish taxa reported. There is continued ... evidence of an increase in the data quality from the observer scheme, as well as an increase in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/04 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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A meta-analysis of by-catch in the Ross Sea toothfish fishery
Abstract: Following the recommendation of WG-FSA in 2014 the Secretariat has undertaken an ... analysis of bycatch in CCAMLR longline fisheries. The numerical target catch ratio (the number of target ... fish as a proportion of the total number of fish caught), using haul by haul data from the Ross Sea ... toothfish fishery from 2008 – 2014, was used as a single metric to examine the amount of bycatch reported by ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/04 Rev. 1 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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THE WHITE-CHINNED PETREL (PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS) ON SOUTH GEORGIA: POPULATION SIZE, DISTRIBUTION AND GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE
fisheries than probably any other seabird in the world, but the population impact of this mortality is ... poorly understood, partly because there have been no estimates of the species’ abundance in recent ... decades. The largest breeding aggregation, comprising the majority of the worldwide total, is believed to ... be on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. We estimated the size of this population by ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-PSW-08/05 : Author(s): A.R. Martin, S. Poncet, C. Barbraud, P. Fretwell and E. Foster (United Kingdom)
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Exploitation of mesoscale oceanographic features by grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma in the southern Indian Ocean
association with mesoscale oceanographic features, as identified by sea surface height anomalies, in the ... southern Indian Ocean. During incubation, most birds foraged to the north of the island, at the edges of ... anomalies created by the Agulhas Return Current in the Subtropical Convergence and the Subantarctic zones ... . In contrast, during chick-rearing all tracked birds foraged to the southwest of the island, at the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/12 : Author(s): D.C. Nel, J.R.E. Lutjeharms, E.A. Pakhomov, I.J. Ansorge, P.G. Ryan and N.T.W. Klages (South Africa)
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Swimming speed and allocation of time during the dive cycle of Antarctic fur seals
Abstract: During sustained bouts of diving, predators like fur seals may adjust the time they ... spend diving to maximise the time they can spend foraging and minimise the time spent at the surface ... between dives. To examine this, swimming speeds and the time allocated to different parts of the dive ... than was exhibited by animals when swimming at the surface. Swimming speeds were fastest during the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/25 : Author(s): Bevan, R.M., Boyd, I.L., Reid, K.
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Investigation of bias in the mark–recapture estimate of toothfish population size at South Georgia
Abstract: This paper investigates the influence of mixing of fish, and the uneven distribution of ... tag placements and recapture effort, on bias in the Petersen estimate. It does so by constructing a ... linear model of the South Georgia toothfish fishery, simulating fish movements within this system and ... overlaying various combinations of tagging and recapture effort to investigate bias. The fishable grounds ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-05/6 Rev. 1 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, G.P. Kirkwood, J. Pearce and J. Clark (United Kingdom)
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Ecosystem modelling for the Antarctic krill fishery
the Antarctic ecosystem. This species serves as prey for many organisms in the ecosystem and has also ... been the target of an small industrial fishery since the mid 1970s. New quotas have recently been set ... but there is concern that the reduction in krill biomass due tome fishery may have impacts on other ... krill predators such as penguins, seals and whales. In order to evaluate the effects of krill fishing on ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/65 : Author(s): T. Antezana, J. Cornejo, E. Bredesen, P. Faundez (Chile), A.W. Trites and T. Pitcher (Canada)
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Variations in the diet composition and feeding intensity of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) at South Georgia (Antarctic)
Abstract: The diet composition and feeding intensity of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari ... ) around Shag Rocks and the mainland of South Georgia was analyzed from c. 8,700 stomachs collected in ... superba), the hyperiid Themisto gaudichaudii, mysids (primarily Antarctomysis maxima) and in 1985 also ... Thysanoessa species. The proportion of krill and Themisto in the diet varied considerably between the three ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-93/24 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock and S. Wilhelms (Germany), I. Everson (United Kingdom) and J. Gröger (Germany)
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Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) population winter/summer behaviour and CEMP time-lapse cameras validation at Galindez Island in the 2018/19 season
during 2018-19 season. The detailed observation of bird arrival, nesting, hatch and crèche has been ... provided in two colonies at GAI CEMP site at Galindez Island nearby the Vernadsky station. We inform on the ... results of visual survey of penguin population and penguin count. During the 2018/19 season biologist ... of gentoo GBV and GPP sites. The results of visual observations of penguin population changes are ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine