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1. CEMP INDICES: 2008 UPDATE

   Abstract:  The CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program (CEMP) uses indices derived from data on ... indicator species collected by standard methods in the three Integrated Study Regions of the Convention Area ... . Each year the Secretariat updates the standardised index values and provides a summary of trends and ... sites and 13 different CEMP parameters for the 2007/08 season. No data was submitted from Edmonson Point ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/04 : Author(s): Secretariat

2. A comparison of model predictions from KPFM1 and KPFM2

   Abstract:  We compare two versions of the krill-predator-fishery model to demonstrate the extent ... to which the predictions of KPFM1 can be reproduced with KPFM2. We also discuss the incorporation of ... seasonality into parameter estimates and a necessary change in the predator recruitment function of KPFM2 ... . These comparisons provide a preliminary indication that the substantial changes in the structure and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/20 : Author(s): J. Hinke, G. Watters (USA), S. Hill and K. Reid (United Kingdom)

3. Project of a software catalog of skeletal elements from Antarctic fish species, including some identification facilities

   Abstract:  In our study skeletal elements from fish species of the Antarctic waters were extracted ... by bioenzyme and compared with the aim to provide a computer supported identification system ... , including a database of bone pictures and in the near future various identification keys as well, completed ... by a simple tool to compare the same skeletal elements of different species. In the database most of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/35 : Author(s): J. von Busekist, M. Vacchi and G. Albertelli (Italy)

4. Spatial distribution of Champsocephalus gunnari in Subarea 48.3. Some implications for parameter estimation

   Abstract:  Results of the analysis of three consecutive cruises to subarea 48.3 are analyzed. A ... significant variance component associated with the formation of clusters of stations was found as well as a ... general trend for increasing densities since 1994. The significant variance component obtained for ... (as in the estimation of the variance of the mean density) might result in a gross underestimation of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/30 : Author(s): Calcagno, J., Gonzalez, B., Marschoff, E.

5. Monitoring Antarctic environmental variables using penguins

   trips from 49 penguins indicated that during December 1991 and January 1992 the temperature in the top ... 100 m of the water column was highest in the western section of the Bay which concurred with higher ... biotic features of the environment can be studied using animals to transport probes to the study site ... , provided information is given on the position of the animals when measurements are made. Author(s):  R.P ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-94/27 : Author(s): R.P. Wilson, B.M. Culik and R. Bannasch (Germany) and J. Lage (France)

6. Penguin monitoring via remote sensing

   Abstract:  Picking up the calling of the ATCM XXXIV to the Treaty Parties to intensify their ... the Antarctic, Germany currently carries out a feasibility study on penguin monitoring using such ... techniques. Additionally, CEP representatives and scientists discuss on an informal level the need and the ... general possibilities of a penguin monitoring in the Antarctic Treaty area based on remote sensing ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/71 : Author(s): H. Herata and F. Hertel (Germany)

7. NOTIFICATION OF VULNERABLE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS IN STATISTICAL AREA 58.4.1

   bottom fishing gear on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) are avoided. In order to satisfy the ... requirements of CM 22-06 a method is proposed to notify CCAMLR of the presence of VMEs and their location using ... a simple pro-forma. Two VMEs identified during the Australian CEAMARC-CASO cruise are notified using ... this form from Statistical Area 58.4.1, SSRU H. The use of 5 nm buffer zones around the location of the ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVII/13 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia

8. Dietary composition of juvenile Dissostichus eleginoides (Pisces, Nototheniidae) around Shag Rocks and South Georgia, Antarctica.

   Abstract:  A diet analysis of the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides, trawled in the ... coefficient ‘‘Q’’ (%) methods. The samples consisted chiefly of immature specimens, with predominant length ... ranges of 30–70 cm (TL). Fish was by far the main food on the shelves of Shag Rocks and South Georgia ... by the frequency of occurrence method. Cephalopods and mysids were infrequent in the stomachs, and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/P6 : Author(s): Casaux, R., Barrera-Oro, E.R., Marschoff, E.R.

9. Accumulation of stranded plastic objects and other artefacts at Inaccessible Island, central South Atlantic Ocean

   m boulder beach at the western point of Inaccessible Island, central South Atlantic Ocean. This ... repeated the survey made at the same site during 1984, when the highest density of artefacts at the Tristan ... Inaccessible Island. The minimum rate of artefact accumulation was 88 objects km-1 year-1. Total numbers of ... artefacts had increased by47 per cent, with the greatest increase among plastic objects (65 %). Artefacts ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-VII/BG/04 : Author(s): P.G. Ryan and B.P. Watkins (South Africa)

10. Composition of Leucocytes in Peripheral Blood of Antarctic Toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni (Nototheniidae)

    Abstract:  The aim of the work is to study the leukocyte composition in blood of deep-water fish ... species by the example of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni. Fish were caught in January–February ... 2012 in the Ross Sea (Statistical Subarea 88.1) at depths from 690 to 1183 m from onboard “Yantar-31 ... ” longline fishing vessel. Blood samples were collected from the caudal artery of immature fish (10 specimens ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/P07 : Author(s): I.I. Gordeev, D.V. Mikryakov, L.V. Balabanova and V.R. Miktyakov

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