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Report on the CCAMLR marine debris monitoring program
entanglements and hydrocarbon soilings were received for 2014 from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay ... . Non-fishing items such as plastics, packaging materials and wood remain the most common type of debris ... items found in beach surveys. The fishing items found were mostly from longline and trawl origins ... bands found at King George Island. Overall, the amount of debris in colonies of grey-headed albatrosses ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/68 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Review of the CCAMLR regulatory framework and recommendations for streamlining fishery status
Abstract: In 2014 the Commission acknowledged the extensive developments that have taken place ... areas and requested a review of the requirements of CM 21-02 and related measures (e.g., CMs 21-01 and ... 24-01) in light of these developments. It is apparent that the nomenclature and working ‘status’ of ... individual fisheries and the regulatory framework have become somewhat disconnected, and the Scientific ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/17 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Chair of the Scientific Committee
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Update to recruitment series for Patagonian toothfish in the Heard Island region
Abstract: The recent fish survey at in the vicinity of Heard Island in 2000 has provided ... estimates of recruitment for at least one new cohort (1996) and another estimate of the 1995 cohort. The ... older cohorts are likely to be distributed more widely than the shallow part of the Heard Plateau ... , consistent with the observations from 1999. A reanalysis of all survey data from the region has shown that ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/42 : Author(s): A. Constable, R. Williams, T. Lamb and E. van Wijk (Australia)
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Some considerations for the further development of statistical summaries of CEMP indices
Abstract: A potential method is presented for combining data collected as part of the CCAMLR ... ecosystem monitoring programme (CEMP) into a single index for each of the predator, prey and environment ... parameters. The proposed method is based on the usual theory of multivariate statistics and takes into ... account the covariance between parameters. The power of the statistical procedure recently adopted by WG ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-Stats-97/07 : Author(s): de la Mare, W.K.
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Some aspects of spatial–temporal variability of hydrodynamic water circulation and krill distribution in the Scotia Sea
Abstract: The authors considered the inter-annual variability of krill transport factors in the ... Scotia Sea analysing data from available meso-scale surveys covered the Scotia Sea. The subject of ... analysis were the geostrophic water masses circulation and krill transport factors, including variability ... of water masses (kg / m 3) and krill biomass (g / m3) transporting across the survey area. Obtained ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/39 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina and V.N. Shnar
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Summary of the seabird and marine mammal observations during observed toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) longline fishing operations in CCAMLR Subareas 88.1 and 88.2
operations that targeted toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) in 2001–03 in Sub-areas 88.1 and 88.2. The ... distribution of fishing effort was dictated by the presence of sea ice and there are differences in the seabird ... composition reported each year because of variation in the spatial distribution of the seabirds. At-sea ... identification of some species is difficult and some of the species that were reported from outside their known ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/42 : Author(s): S.J. Baird (New Zealand)
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Review of rattail and skate by-catch and analysis of rattail standardised CPUE from the Ross Sea toothfish fishery in Subarea 88.1 from 1997/98 to 2001/02
Abstract: Little is known about the bycatch of skates, rays and macrourids in the target longline ... fishery for toothfish in the Ross Sea. Following concerns about the accuracy of reporting of bycatch ... raised by the 2001 CCAMLR bycatch subgroup, the processes for recording bycatch in this fishery were ... reviewed and the accuracy of data recording was investigated. Current systems were considered to be ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/40 : Author(s): R.G. Blackwell and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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Proposal for a Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (RSMPA) in the East Antarctica planning domain
Abstract: This paper proposes a representative system of marine protected areas (RSMPA) in the ... East Antarctica Planning Domain identified by the CCAMLR Worksop on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in ... 2011 (WS‐MPA‐11). It also proposes that the East Antarctica RSMPA be endorsed by the SC‐CAMLR and that ... it be recommended to the Commission as part of the commitment to delivering MPAs by 2012. This ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXX/11 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia and France
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An acoustic survey of Antarctic krill on the South Georgia shelf, CCAMLR Subarea 48.3, in January 1992
the opportunity was taken in 1992 to produce a krill biomass estimate as a by-product of a fish stock ... operating at 38 kHz and 120 kHz. The results have been analysed for all straight sections of track when the ... ship's speed exceeded 7 knots and when the ship was over the shelf around the main island of South ... Georgia. The appearances of echoes on echo charts were used to decide which echoes to include in krill ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/42 : Author(s): Everson, I., Goss, C.
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CONTINUING CCAMLR’S FIGHT AGAINST IUU FISHING FOR TOOTHFISH EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE REPORT BY TRAFFIC INTERNATIONAL AND WWF AUSTRALIA
Abstract: Despite the continuous efforts of CCAMLR to fight Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported ... (IUU) fishing, there remains evidence of IUU activities in the Convention area. This paper is the ... with WWF Australia that presents a trade-based assessment of toothfish catch for the period of 2003 ... -2007 with a view to provide an indication of the extent of the IUU catch. The report highlights that in ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/38 : Author(s): Submitted by IUCN