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DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ACCREDITATION FRAMEWORK FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE CCAMLR SCHEME OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIFC OBSERVATION
Abstract: When establishing the ad-hoc Technical Group for At-Sea Operations (TASO), the ... Scientific Committee tasked it with the development of minimum standards to facilitate accreditation of ... observer programs participating in the CCAMLR SISO. At its 2009 meeting, TASO requested that the TASO co ... -conveners outline the elements of an accreditation framework, and a workplan for it implementation, for ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/BG/09 : Author(s): Co-conveners of the ad hoc Technical Group for At-
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Growth of krill around the South Orkney Islands in 1989/90
Abstract: On the ground of materials collected by biologists-observers from October 1989 to June ... 1990 near the South Orkney Islands the growth of males and females are characterized according to size ... groups, distinguished using the probability paper. Seven size groups both for males and females were ... distiguished. The growth period for the males continued from October to April, and from October to February for ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/05 : Author(s): Latogursky, V.I.
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Analysis of maturity of Antarctic toothfish in the Amundsen Sea
Abstract: The results of the comparative histological analysis of the Antarctic toothfish ... (Dissostichus mawsoni) reproductive system, caught by the longliner in the Amundsen Sea in February 2006 and ... 2007 are presented. The morphological parameters, indices of gonads, condition by Fulton and ... cytological parameters of oocytes have been described. Antarctic toothfish ovaries reached mainly the late III ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/50 : Author(s): S.V. Piyanova and A.F. Petrov (Russia)
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Joint Polish/American hydroacoustic survey of Elephant Island in the vicinity of King George Island, 1988
Abstract: The hydroacoustic survey found a low krill abundance in most areas covered by last ... years survey. The total biomass in the vicinity of Elephant Island was estimated from 120 kHz data to be ... 260 k tons and that in the Bransfield Strait South of King George Island was 39 k tons for a total of ... 299 k tons in the combined areas. The estimated 200 kHz survey data were higher, giving 715 k tons ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/21 : Author(s): United States of America
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Killer whale Orcinus orca and sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus interactions with longline vessels in the Patagonian toothfish fishery at South Georgia, South Atlantic
longline fishing operations were recorded by CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine ... Living Resources) observers between 2000 and 2002 at South Georgia (Subarea 48.3) in the Southeast ... deployed in depths of 300 to 2000m, concentrated along the 1000m contour. Sperm whales were the most ... abundant marine mammals observed in the vicinity of vessels when lines were being hauled, occurring during ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/27 : Author(s): M.G. Purves (United Kingdom), D.J. Agnew (United Kingdom), E. Balguerías (Spain), C.A. Moreno (Chile) and B. Watkins (South Africa)
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Conditions for the precise measurement of fish target strength in situ
studied and two indexes are introduced for this purpose. One is the number of fish in the effective ... reverberation volume which contributes echo formation at a certain instant and the other is the percentage of ... the multiple echoes which is derived from a residual of the single echo extraction. With the decrease ... reliable from the past study. This shows the existence of some threshold values and below these threshold ...
Meeting Document : WG-Krill-94/35 : Author(s): K. Sawada and M. Furusawa (Japan), N.J. Williamson (USA)
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The SCAR Antarctic digital topographic database
Abstract: The Antarctic digital topographic database is the outcome of a truly international ... collaborative project between 11 nations. Data capture was co-ordinated in the UK, under the auspices of the ... from 1:200 000 to 1:5 000 000, were digitized for the project and reference was made to a similar ... number of satellite images (mostly Landsat photographic products). Editing and harmonization of the data ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XII/BG/16 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Rockhopper penguins and other marine life threatened by driftnet fisheries in the south Atlantic ocean
Abstract: The oriental driftnet fleet, which is responsible for the large scale mortality of non ... -target species in the Pacific Ocean, has extended its range to include the South Atlantic Ocean ... . Relatively little is known about the areas of operation and impacts of driftnetting in the South Atlantic as ... yet, but it is emerging that driftnetting is equally devastating to the fauna of the South Atlantic ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-IX/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa
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Recommendations from a cross-sector workshop on krill fishing and conservation in the Scotia Sea and Antarctic Peninsula region
Abstract: In June 2014, the ICED programme, the British Antarctic Survey and WWF co-hosted a two ... day workshop entitled “Understanding the objectives for krill fishing and conservation in the Scotia ... Sea and Antarctic Peninsula region” which involved participants from the science, conservation and ... fishing industry sectors. This report summarises the key initial conclusions and recommendations from the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/12 : Author(s): S. Hill, R. Cavanagh, R. Downie, C. Knowland and S. Grant (United Kingdom)
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A preliminary assessment of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) in Division 58.5.2, based on results from the 2014 random stratified trawl survey
Abstract: The annual Random Stratified Trawl Survey was undertaken in Division 58.5.2 in the ... population structure, abundance and yield for the area of Division 58.5.2 to the west of 79° 20’ E using ... standard CCAMLR methods. A pattern of multiple year classes being present simultaneously in the population ... , which was first detected in 2011, has persisted. The large cohort observed in recent surveys was still ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/44 : Author(s): D.C. Welsford (Australia)