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Review of CCAMLR activities on monitoring marine debris in the Convention Area
Abstract: The current status of national surveys on monitoring of marine debris and their impact ... on marine mammals and seabirds in the Convention Area has been reviewed. The CCAMLR Marine Debris ... debris, principally packaging items, fishing gear, and wood items, reached a peak in the period 1994-1996 ... at Bird Island and Signy Island, but have declined. The number of debris items found had increased in ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/09 : Author(s): Secretariat
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A survey plan of Japanese RV Kaiyo Maru in 2004/05 for the Ross Sea and adjacent waters, Antarctica
Abstract: The Japanese R/V Kaiyo Maru will survey to collect data simultaneously on ecological ... interaction f environment – Antarctic krill – whales in the Ross Sea and adjacent waters during December 2004 ... suggest high concentrated krill and whales such as the Scot Seamounts Island, the Balleny Islands, the ... shelf off the Victoria Land and the Bay of Whale Bay. The 175E line, especially, will be surveyed in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/47 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, K. Taki and T. Hayashi (Japan)
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Relationship between Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) variability and westerly fluctuations and ozone depletion in the Antarctic Peninsula area
Abstract: An assessment of the environmental processes influencing variability in the recruitment ... affects the Antarctic marine ecosystem as a whole. We have assessed variability in krill recruitment and ... ) determined from sea level pressure differences across the Drake Passage, sea ice cover, and ozone depletion ... . We found a significant positive correlation between krill recruitment in the Antarctic Peninsula area ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/52 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, K. Kutsuwada, Y. Sasai and T. Taguchi (Japan) and V. Siegel (Germany)
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Diet and foraging effort of Adélie penguins in relation to pack-ice conditions in the southern Ross Sea
Abstract: We investigated the diet and aspects of foraging effort among Adélie Penguins ... Pygoscelis adeliae breeding at three colonies on Ross Island, in the southwestern Ross Sea-- Capes Royds ... , Bird and Crozier-- during the chick provisioning period of three austral summers, 1994-95, 1995-96 and ... 1996-97. During the study period, pack-ice cover differed in waters offshore of these colonies, by ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/15 : Author(s): D.G. Ainley (USA), P.R. Wilson, K.J. Barton (New Zealand), G. Ballard, N. Nur (USA) and B. Karl (New Zealand)
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Proposal for a CCAMLR-sponsored research survey to monitor abundance of pre-recruit Antarctic toothfish in the southern Ross Sea
Abstract: The exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. has now been operating for 14 ... years in Subarea 88.1 and for nine years in Subarea 88.2. The research and assessment work in these ... areas on the distribution, abundance and demography of Antarctic toothfish (D. mawsoni) has led to an ... estimate of the fisheries potential yield. However, one source of ongoing uncertainty in the stock ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXX/07 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Prohibition of shark finning in the CAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: In 2006, CCAMLR adopted Conservation Measure 32-18 on the conservation of sharks. The ... measure prohibits the “directed fishing on shark species in the Convention Area…” and calls for the live ... release of incidentally-caught sharks where possible. The measure is, however, silent on the practice of ... shark finning should incidental catches of sharks occur. The U.S. delegation proposes to amend CCAMLR ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/25 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA
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Prohibition of finning of sharks caught in the CAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: 1. In 2006, CCAMLR adopted Conservation Measure 32-18 on the conservation of sharks ... . The measure prohibits the “directed fishing on shark species in the Convention Area…” and calls for ... the live release of incidentally-caught sharks where possible. The measure is, however, silent on the ... practice of shark finning should incidental catches of sharks occur. The United States proposes to amend ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXII/33 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA
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Research plan for the exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in 2014/15 in Division 58.4.3a
Abstract: In 2011/2012, the Saint André conducted its first exploratory fishery for Dissostichus ... spp. in division 58.4.3a. France notified its wish to continue this exploratory fishery over the ... account the remarks made during the WG-FSA 2013. The objective is to progress on modelling tools and to ... improve the estimation of current biomass. An update of the assessment of Dissostichus eleginoides using a ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-14/17 : Author(s): Delegation of France
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Towards the development of an assessment of stock abundance for Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C–G – a discussion paper
Abstract: This paper frames a discussion for improving the assessment of toothfish abundance for ... SSRUs 88.2C–G. We initially provide a characterisation of the fishery and a summary of available tagging ... 2 fish have been recaptured. It is likely that the lack of tag recaptures in this region has been ... caused primarily by the poor spatial overlap of released tagged fish with subsequent fishing effort. By ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-14/28 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet and S.J. Parker (New Zealand)
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Research program on resource potential and life cycle of Dissostichus species from the Subarea 88.2 A in 2015–2018
fishing seasons 2015-2018. The present program aims to recapture tagged fishes released during the ... implementation of the previous research program took place in 2010-2012 fishing seasons and investigate resource ... potential and life cycle of Dissostichus species within the eastern part of the Ross Sea over shelf and ... continental slope within the Subarea 88.2 A. The present document is a new edition of the CCAMLR Document WG ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/27 : Author(s): Delegation of the Russian Federation