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First Annual Report of the CCAMLR Otolith Network, 2002
Abstract: This report presents results from the first exchange of otoliths under the auspices of ... the CCAMLR Otolith Network (CON), following the Workshop on Estimating Age in Patagonian Toothfish ... held at the Centre for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology (CQFE), Old Dominion University, United States ... , from 23 to 27 July 2001. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Nelson, New Zealand ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/51
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Improvements to the multiple-frequency method for in situ target strength measurements
Abstract: Refinements have been made to the multiple-frequency method that was recently developed ... to improve the accuracy and precision of in-situ target strength (TS) measurements using split-beam ... echosounders (Demer et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105(4) 2359:2376 (1999)]. The multiple-frequency method ... improves the rejection of unresolvable and constructively interfering target multiples by combining ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/38 : Author(s): D.A. Demer (USA) and M.A. Soule (South Africa)
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THE ROSS SEA AS A UNIQUE EVOLUTIONARY SITE
Abstract: The case is made that the Ross Sea is an evolutionary site on par with those of the ... Galápagos, Hawaii, Madagascar, the African Rift Valley lakes, and Lake Baikal, all recognized as World ... Heritage Sites. The focus herein will be on notothenioid fishes because their taxonomy and phylogeny are ... Antarctic marine groups. The Ross Sea fish fauna includes 95 species of fishes, dominated by 61 species of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/13 : Author(s): J.T. Eastman and D.G. Ainley (USA)
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THE USE OF TRADE RELATED MEASURES IN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
Abstract: The use of trade-related measures, including catch and/or trade documentation schemes ... and the imposition of trade sanctions on vessels or Flag States failing to comply with the ... conservation and management measures of RFBs, has increased noticeably over the last decade. Experience has ... join RFBs and/or to co-operate in the implementation of the conservation and management measures of ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/37 : Author(s): Submitted by IUCN
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Preliminary reports on abundance and biological information on toothfish in Divisions 58.4.4a and 58.4.4b by Shinsei Maru No. 3 in the 2009/10 season
Abstract: A survey was conducted in order to collect information for the stock status and various ... longline vessel, Shinsei Maru No. 3, from April 30 to June 20. The survey was undertaken according to the ... decision in the 28th CCAMLR Meeting of the Commission (28th CCAMLR report paragraph 4.43). This report ... described the results preliminarily during the survey in four SSRUs of Ob Lena Bank. The catch amounted the ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-10/14 : Author(s): K. Taki, M. Kiyota and T. Ichii (Japan)
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Identification of Pleuragramma antarctica larvae in the Ross Sea via mitochondrial DNA
Abstract: Research into the early life stages of Pleuragramma antarctica is essential to ... understanding how oceanographic variation will impact spatial distributions over time. The recent findings of ... traits in the Ross Sea. A report submitted to the CCAMLR-EMM working group last year provided abundance ... , length and growth data for larvae found in the western and eastern Ross Sea during the austral summer of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/61 : Author(s): J.A. Caccavo (Italy), C. Brooks (USA), L. Zane (Italy) and J.R. Ashford (USA)
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Seabird and longline interactions: effects of a bird-scaring streamer line and line shooter on the incidental capture of northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis
and reduced gear efficiency. The potential for solving these problems by using a bird-scaring streamer ... line and a line shooter was investigated in commercial longlining in the northern Atlantic off the ... coast of Norway. We compared the bycatch rate of northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis, the loss rate of ... baits to fulmars and the catch rates of fish target species among lines set with either of these ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/78 : Author(s): S. Løkkeborg (Norway) and G. Robertson (Australia)
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PHYSICAL CONTROLS ON CORAL COMMUNITIES ON THE GEORGE V LAND SLOPE: SOME WORKING HYPOTHESES
Abstract: Dense coral-sponge communities on the upper continental slope off George V Land have ... been identified as a Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem in the Antarctic. The challenge is now to understand ... their likely distribution. The CEAMARC survey of 2007/2008 found these communities at sites on the upper ... their distribution. Icebergs scour to 500 m in this region and the lack of such disturbance is probably ...
Meeting Document : WS-VME-09/04 : Author(s): De Santis, L., Riddle, M.J., Beaman, R.J., Post, A.L., O’Brien, P.E.
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Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment – 2011 update
Abstract: This paper is the second update to CCAMLR and the ATCM since the publication of the ... SCAR Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE) report (Turner et al., 2009a). The ACCE report ... was a first step in compiling a comprehensive assessment of scientific information on the climate ... system and ecosystem responses to change in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean region. The present paper ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/14 : Author(s): Submitted by SCAR
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Assessment of green Notothenia (Notothenia gibberifrons, Lonnberg 1905) stocks in the Antarctic Peninsula subarea
Abstract: Biological characteristic and distribution of the green Notothenia by depth are given ... based on the results of inventory trawling surveys carried out in 1984/1985 and 1986/1987 by the BMRT ... "Gizhiga" in the Antarctic Peninsula subarea. Also presented are the abundance and biomass ... indices and the estimate of this species biomass by location and for the subarea on the whole. According ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/46 : Author(s): V.A. Boronin (USSR)