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Shipboard line transect surveys of crabeater seal abundance in the pack-ice off East Antarctica: evaluation of assumptions
Abstract: The extent to which the assumptions underlying line transect sampling are satisfied in ... shipboard surveys of crabeater seals hauled-out on the Antarctic pack-ice is examined. Crabeater seals ... showed little movement in response to the approaching ship. Movement away from the ship by seals close to ... the ship’s track was partially responsible for a relative lack of sightings close to the transect-line ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/64 : Author(s): C. Southwell, W. de la Mare (Australia), D. Borchers and L. Burt (United Kingdom)
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Potential impacts of climate change on the Southern Ocean ecosystem
Abstract: Global climate change has the potential to disrupt the delicately poised themal balance ... in surface waters of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, threatening this highly productive system ... with severe and permanant collapse. Pivotal to this process is a diminution of the important (but ... little studied) CO2 sink in the Southern Ocean, resulting in a series of feedback loops accelerating ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-VIII/BG/21 : Author(s): R.G. Chittleborough (Australia)
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Testing for genetic differentiation between two size classes of the starry skate (Amblyraja georgiana)
in the catch data from the Ross Sea fisheries. We extracted DNA from A. georgiana samples from both ... size classes collected by Scientific Observers in the Ross Sea. We determined the DNA sequences of five ... mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gene sequences and tested whether the two size classes represented genetically ... among the samples of A. georgiana that were collected in the Ross Sea region, and the data did not ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/53 : Author(s): P. Ritchie and A. Fleming (New Zealand)
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Proposal of the Russian Federation to establish research TAC for closed SSRU in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2
Abstract: Over the last three years at the meetings of WGs and CCAMLR SC a question about ... research TAC in open and closed SSRUs of the Ross Sea has been raised. In accordance with established ... practice, as a rule, if research goes on in open SSRU then the necessary catch limits are taken from the ... unit`s TAC. If research fishing goes on in closed SSRU then as a rule catch limits are taken from the ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/20 : Author(s): Delegation of the Russian Federation
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The International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters: Step 2 addressing fishing vessels
Abstract: This paper reports on progress at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on the ... adoption of a Polar Code for shipping in polar waters, and sets out the initial steps for a second phase on ... work that will address fishing vessels and other vessels not currently covered by the Code. The paper ... identifies the relevance for fishing vessels of various safety matters addressed in the Polar Code, on the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/24 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Strengthening the Ross Sea Research and Monitoring Plan to deliver effective, measurable, and robust management
Abstract: The intersessional process to develop a Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (RSRMPA ... ) has been extremely fruitful, and ASOC appreciates the work of the conveners and participants in ... drafting the plan. ASOC supports the implementation of the RMP, but recognizes it is a living document that ... will be refined over time. Thus, ASOC recommends that the importance of developing indicators and ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/30 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Annual report of research fishing operations at Division 58.4.4b in the 2018/19 fishing season
Abstract: This paper represents the annual report of the multi-member longline survey on ... Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) at Division 58.4.4b in the 2018/19 fishing season by Japan ... and France. The C2 and Observer data sets were provided by the CCAMLR Secretariat on the 7th August ... , 2019. In this paper, the data set during current fishing season (2018/19) was used for reporting the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-2019/65 : Author(s): Delegations of Japan and France
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Ecosystem indicators: factors affecting the choice of predator performance indices for use in monitoring programmes
Abstract: The ability to use upper-trophic level species as ecosystem indicators is determined by ... the ability to relate changes in indices of their performance to changes at lower trophic levels ... independent ship-based acoustic estimates of krill abundance from South Georgia the relationship between a ... relationships between the variability of indices and the biological processes that they measured; body mass ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/43 : Author(s): K. Reid (United Kingdom)
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Acquiring a ‘base datum of normality’ for a marine ecosystem: the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Abstract: The Ross Sea Shelf Ecosystem (RSShelfE) offers the last chance to understand ecological ... oceans the systems used for understanding ecological processes and fishery effects all have lacked ... researchers who currently investigate open-ocean systems. Herein, the importance of top-down forcing in ... pelagic and neritic marine ecosystems is reviewed with concrete evidence given for its existence in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/20 : Author(s): D. Ainley (USA)
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Assessment of the analysis of anomalous CPUE data from data-poor exploratory fisheries
Abstract: The article is concerned with discussion of the Analysis of anomalous CPUE data from ... data-poor exploratory fisheries (WG-FSA-12/07). Key points of the paper were presented and discussed ... during the Workshop for the Analysis of the Anomalous High CPUE by Korean Vessels in the CCAMLR Area ... high CPUE for Dissostichus spp. revealed by several vessels in the Subareas 58.4.1, 58.4.2 and 48.6. A ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/16 : Author(s): V.A. Tatarnikov, A.F. Petrov and I.I. Gordeev (Russia)