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The effect of different methodologies used in penguin diet studies at three US AMLR predator research sites: Admiralty Bay, Palmer Station and Cape Shirreff
Abstract: Diet studies are a key component of the CCAMLR predator monitoring program as they ... provide direct assessments of the prey types and amounts of import to predators, which, in turn, are ... and chick fledging weights. Given the importance and interdependence of diet studies to monitoring ... sites in the Antarctic Peninsula region where different methodologies were used to select, pump and sort ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/46 : Author(s): W. Trivelpiece, S. Trivelpiece (USA) and K. Salwicka (Poland)
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Revisions to the draft East Antarctic Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (EARSMPA) Conservation Measure
Abstract: A draft conservation measure establishing the East Antarctic Representative System of ... Marine Protected Areas (EARSMPA) has been under consideration by the Commission since 2012. The attached ... draft conservation measure is a revision of the proposal submitted to CCAMLR XXXIV (CCAMLR XXXIV/30). It ... Australia and the European Union and its Member States Title: Revisions to the draft East Antarctic ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXV/15 Rev. 2 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia and the European Union and its Member States
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Outcomes from a review of the CCAMLR Marine Debris Program
Abstract: This paper summarises a review of the CCAMLR Marine Debris monitoring program and ... considers ways in which the current program could be modernised. It recommends that the Scientific Committee ... establish an Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Debris to review and revise the program, which ... approach that will allow quantification of marine debris levels across the Convention Area. Author(s ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/09 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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CURRENT ABUNDANCE OF ADÉLIE PENGUIN BREEDING POPULATIONS ALONG THE KEMP AND MAC.ROBERTSON LAND COASTS, EAST ANTARCTICA: APPLICATION OF NEW SURVEY AND ESTIMATION METHODS FOR BROAD-SCALE POPULATION ASSESSMENT
Abstract: Application of new methods for estimating the abundance of breeding Adélie penguin ... populations along the Kemp and Mac.Robertson Land coasts of east Antarctica are described. Methods include use ... availability using ICESCAPE software. The surveys revealed a considerably larger population of Adélie penguins ... breeding in this region than was previously known. The larger population estimates are at least partly due ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/31 : Author(s): C. Southwell, J. McKinlay, K. Newbery, L. Emmerson, M. Low, R. Pike, D. Wilson, D. Southwell and L. Einoder (Australia)
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ESTIMATES OF NUMBERS OF KELP GULLS AND KERGUELEN AND ANTARCTIC TERNS BREEDING AT THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS, 1996/97–2008/09
in December 2001 and December 2008. Four species are regular breeders at the islands: subantarctic ... tern S. virgata. The latter three species currently each have populations of below 150 breeding pairs ... at the islands. Kelp gull numbers appear to be relatively stable though they may have decreased since ... the 1980s. Kerguelen tern numbers decreased and then recovered at Marion Island but numbers of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P5 : Author(s): P.A. Whittington, R.J.M. Crawford, B.M. Dyer and P.G. Ryan
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Towards a closer cooperation between CCAMLR and the IWC
Abstract: At the 1997 Meetings of the Scientific Committee of CCAMLR and its CCAMLR Working Group ... and the IWC were identified: Coordination of CCAMLR and IWC research activities; Analysis of ... ; Considerations for re-establishing minke whales as a monitoring species in the CCAMLR Ecosystem Program (CEMP ... the IWC could best be achieved by forming a small liaison group with IWC-SC which could work (mostly ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVII/BG/03 : Author(s): CCAMLR Observer (K.-H. Kock, Germany)
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Patterns and processes in the distribution and dynamics of Antarctic krill
Abstract: A general framework is presented to develop, test and integrate component models of the ... abundance. Incremental models should then be compared to statistical descriptions of the observed ... distribution patterns at various scales of observation to ascertain the plausibility of the model and identify ... critical processes to be added. An analysis of spatial distribution of krill in the Bransfield Strait area ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/20 : Author(s): United States of America
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Design of the used on Russian vessels Sparta and Chio Maru No. 3 bottom trot-line for toothfish fishing
№3”. The trotline of a special design that was used is formed of main floating line and fastened ... lines with hooks and weight. This design allows avoiding fish injuries outside the mouth cavity and ... catching of VME-organisms to a large extent, because at the presented design of a longline each line with a ... less and when fish eats the bait and trying to get away making chaotic movements, it won`t be hooked by ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/22 : Author(s): I.G. Istomin, V.V. Akishin, V.A. Tatarnikov and I.I. Gordeev (Russia)
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Monitoring fishing in vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) in the CAMLR Convention Area
significant adverse effects of fishing on vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs). The United States undertook a ... and in relevant VMEs as a step toward reviewing the effectiveness of relevant conservation measures in ... longline fishing gear was set inside a VME Risk Area. These findings raise questions about the level of ... , the United States wishes to provide recommendations increasing the effectiveness of measures to ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVII/19 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA
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Collaborating to eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing in the Southern Ocean
Abstract: The high-profile chase and sinking of the Thunder was just one of many important ... ) fishing this year. ASOC and COLTO commend the cooperation between states, organizations and NGOs that led ... prevent IUU fishing and ensure compliance with CCAMLR conservation measures. These include: the ... potentially involved in IUU fishing; and improvements in the effectiveness of the IUU vessel lists. Author(s ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/23 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC and COLTO