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The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Annual Report 2017/18
Abstract: SCAR is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council (ISC), and ... coordinating high quality international scientific research in, from and about the Antarctic region (including ... the Southern Ocean). SCAR’s Mission is to advance Antarctic research, including observations from ... Antarctica, and to promote scientific knowledge, understanding and education on any aspect of the Antarctic ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/BG/27 : Author(s): Submitted by SCAR
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Trials with net monitoring cable during the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons onboard FV Saga Sea
Abstract: This paper describes trials with a net monitoring cable on board FV Saga Sea. The ... solution as described in the permit for using a third cable was abandoned at an early stage, as it was ... operable only when using one trawl behind the vessel. Trawling from the two beams caused practical ... and procedures for their three vessels. Accordingly, Saga Sea has introduced the same trawl rigging as ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/16 : Author(s): O.R. Godø
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Diet of two icefish species from the South Shetland Islands and Elephant Island, Champsocephalus gunnari and Chaenocephalus aceratus 2001–2003
Abstract: The summer diet of two species of icefishes (Channichthyidae) from the South Shetland ... 2001 to 2003. C. gunnari fed almost exclusively on krill (Euphausia superba) in all years. The ... importance of other taxa (Themisto gaudichaudii, mysids, myctophids) in the diet was negligible. The average ... % body weight per day. Most of the stomachs of C. aceratus were empty. Stomachs with food contained ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/61 : Author(s): H. Flores, K.-H. Kock, S. Wilhelms (Germany) and C.D. Jones (USA)
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The Ross Sea toothfish fishery: proposal for conditional transition of classification from exploratory to established
Abstract: The Ross Sea toothfish fishery in Subarea 88.1 and 88.2A&B has been classified by ... CCAMLR as an exploratory fishery since 1998. The current classification of this fishery as ‘exploratory ... ’ has led to the widespread misconception that little information is available for this stock, and that ... a rigorous assessment of the stock status and estimation of long-term precautionary yield has yet to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/32 : Author(s): C. Jones (USA) and S. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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A system-of-equations approach to modeling age structured fish populations: the case of Alaskan red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus
-structured populations using trawl survey age/size frequency data. The analysis builds upon a Ricker spawner ... -recruit structure and provides a cohort-based estimation method that retains the underlying dynamic ... properties of a delay-difference model. The framework shares a common spawner-recruit function across age ... -class equations. This exploits the commonality among cohort members and serves as an instrumental ...
Meeting Document : WS-CRAB-93/23 : Author(s): J.A. Greenberg, S.C. Matulich and R.C. Mittelhammer (USA)
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Analysis of potential threats from fishing to the objectives of a proposed Ross Sea region MPA
Abstract: We present an analysis of potential threats from fishing to the achievement of MPA ... objectives identified in the Ross Sea region MPA proposal submitted jointly by New Zealand and the USA ... . Ecosystem threats from fishing potentially undermine the requirements of Article II(3) paragraphs b and c ... and scientific objectives were always implicit in the systematic process of MPA design used by New ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-IM-I/09 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and the USA
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Information on levels of seabird by-catch in fisheries adjacent to the CAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to respond to a request made at the XXXII CCAMLR meeting ... in 2013 for ACAP to provide information on the levels of seabird bycatch in fisheries adjacent to the ... CCAMLR Convention area. A summary of the most recent bycatch and related information held by ACAP is ... presented, and the current status of the process to develop a bycatch data reporting and assessment ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIII/BG/15 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Submitted by ACAP
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Progress report of the CEMP Special Fund overwinter penguin tracking project
Abstract: We provide a brief update on the progress of our project “Tracking the overwinter ... habitat use of krill-dependent predators from Subarea 48.1”. The project was initiated with support from ... the CEMP Special Fund in 2015/16. With the assistance of the Secretariat, we purchased 150 ARGOS-based ... satellite transmitters and successfully deployed 130 instruments during the 2016/17 breeding season at sites ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/07 : Author(s): J. Hinke, G. Watters, M. Santos, M. Korczak-Abshire, G. Milinevsky and V. Lytvynov
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The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Annual Report 2018/2019
Abstract: SCAR is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council (ISC ... initiating, developing and coordinating high quality international scientific research in, from and about the ... Antarctic and the Southern Ocean, and providing objective, independent scientific advice. SCAR’s Mission is ... knowledge, understanding and education on any aspect of the Antarctic region and its role in the Earth ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/16 : Author(s): Submitted by SCAR
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PROPOSED APPROACH FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF IMPORTANT MARINE AREAS FOR CONSERVATION: USING ‘MARXAN’ SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT SYSTEMATIC CONSERVATION PLANNING
the pelagic environment, using Subarea 48.2 (South Orkney Islands) as a pilot study area. The aim of ... the worked example is not to identify areas for protection or management at this stage, but rather to ... test the utility of this methodology, and to demonstrate the types of data and the range of decisions ... ; Game & Grantham, 2008) is used to objectively determine the possible contribution of individual ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/49 : Author(s): S.M. Grant, J. Tratalos and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)