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1. JGYM: a java version of the Generalised Yield Model

   the current toothfish assessment methodology using the Generalised Yield Model (GYM), a Java version ... of the GYM has been developed. The new version has been developed directly from the specifications ... kindly provided by Dr Andrew Constable. Some routines have been translated from the GYM FORTRAN code into ... Java. As such, if sufficiently similar results can be obtained from the JGYM and the current GYM given ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM 03/16 : Author(s): R.N. Vilhelm (United Kingdom)

2. TARGET STRENGTH STUDIES ON ANTARCTIC SILVERFISH (PLEURAGRAMMA ANTARCTICUM) IN THE ROSS SEA

   free swimming fish in their natural habitat. A canvassing of the literature suggested that the type of ... study may influence the result. For example, some authors suggested that freezing the fish reduce the ... be several dB higher than in situ (Nakken and Olsen, 1977). On other hand the many factors likely to ... of Middle Trophic Level of the Ross Sea and several studies have been published on its biology and ...

   Meeting Document : SG-ASAM-09/10 : Author(s): M. Azzali, I. Leonori, I. Biagiotti, A. De Felice, M. Angiolillo, M. Bottaro and M. Vacchi (Italy)

3. Report of ACAP Working Group on Status and Trends Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels – Status and Trends Working Group

   Abstract:  1. The first Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP1) of the Agreement on the ... Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) agreed to review the population status, trends and demography of ... albatrosses (21 species) and petrels (seven species) listed on Annex 1 of the Agreement (MOP1 Final Report ... , Paragraph 7.2). 2. To progress this review, ACAP’s Advisory Committee established a Working Group with the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/40

4. NPOA-Seabirds Science Advisory Group Final recommendations on fields of research for the NPOA Medium Term Research Plan 2006/07–2010/11

   Abstract:  Following the review by Alderman (unpublished) and Bull (unpublished) of research into ... seabird-fishery interactions, a set of recommendations were made by the Science Advisory Group to the ... National Plan of Action – Seabirds. The recommendations were developed under six main topic areas: a ... to be considered when commissioning future research on seabird interactions with fisheries and the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/46 : Author(s): S. Waugh (Convener) (New Zealand)

5. Development of an underwater setting method for surface longliners, to minimise the accidental capture of seabirds

   Abstract:  In response to the Department of Conservation's concerns for the accidental ... placement devices were evaluated. Two methods being selected for further in depth evaluation. The first ... concept being a towed paravane with an endless cable employed to transport and release the bait at the ... depth to which the paravane was set. Although practical bait carrying devices were designed, the ability ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/54 : Author(s): Bentley, N., Smith, M.

6. Indexing maturation of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea region

   Abstract:  The longline fisheries for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in subareas 88.1 ... and 88.2 have provided more than a decade of observations to aid in understanding the life history and ... ecology of toothfish. Updated spawning ogives for males and females support the currently used values ... fish developing to spawn in the upcoming season. Evidence is accumulating that almost all Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/40 : Author(s): S. Parker and P. Marriott (New Zealand)

7. Report of the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Sustainable Financing for 2016/17

   Abstract:  A summary of the work undertaken in relation to tasks identified at CCAMLR-XXXV for the ... attention of the Intersessional Correspondence Group – Sustainable Financing (ICG-SF) during 2016/17 is ... presented.  During this period, the ICG-SF received information from the Secretariat relating to the ... following tasks requested by CCAMLR-XXXV: issues associated with funding conveners to meetings of the ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/11 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

8. By-catch of rays in the 2002/03 toothfish fishery around South Georgia

   Abstract:  The 2002/2003 fishing season was the first in which three new policies for rays were ... tried: • It was the first in which vessels were asked to cut off all rays at water level to assist ... survival and conservation of rays; • It was the first in which very good quality information was available ... from all observers’ tally periods on the catch rates of rays cut off the line; • In 2003 the UK, with ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/58 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, J. Pearce and M. Endicott (United Kingdom)

9. Consumption of krill by minke whales in Areas IV and V of the Antarctic

   Abstract:  The consumption of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) by the southern minke whale ... (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Areas IV and V of the Antarctic was estimated from diurnal change in the ... forestomach content mass, standard metabolism and the body mass increase methods based on JARPA (the Japanese ... Whale Research Program Under Special Permit in the Antarctic) data. Estimates of the daily food ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/17 : Author(s): Fujise, Y., Tamura, T., Ichii, T.

10. Indices of prey availability near the Seal Island CEMP site: 1990 through 1996

    Abstract:  Four indices of prey availability are calculated for prey surveys conducted in the ... vicinity of the Seal Island CEMP site during the austral summers of 1990-96. The indices are measures of ... AMLR surveys each year were sub-sampled to include the foraging range of predators breeding at Seal ... Island. The average depth of the prey field and its average distance from Seal Island were positively ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/22 : Author(s): Hewitt, R.P., Demer, D.A., Watters, G.

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