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Differences in distribution and population structure of krill (Euphausia superba) between penguin and fur seal foraging areas near Seal Island
. 2-3 km in horizontal distance) of higher densities (≥250g/m2). In the inshore foraging areas krill ... showed a diurnal vertical migration, tending to be at deeper depth range (50-100 m deep) in the day time ... while at shallower layer (20-50 m) at night. In the offshore foraging areas krill showed no diurnal ... vertical migration, staying close to the surface throughout the day. As for body size and maturity of krill ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/27 : Author(s): T. Ichii, H. Ishii (Japan), J.L. Bengtson, P. Boveng, J.K. Jansen (USA) and M. Naganobu (Japan)
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SUMMARY OF VME NOTIFICATIONS MADE UNDER CONSERVATION MEASURES 22-06 AND 22-07
Abstract: The requirements for notifying encounters, and potential encounters with vulnerable ... -07 in the case of encounters with potential VMEs during the course of bottom fishing, and under CM 22 ... -06 in other cases such as during research surveys. Notifications are held in the Secretariat’s VME ... registry. Since 2008, the Secretariat has received a total of 32 notifications of encounters with VMEs ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/07 : Author(s): Secretariat
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A comparative morphometric analysis of sagittal otoliths of three icefishes (Channichthyidae) in Antarctic waters
Abstract: In the present study a comparative morphometric analysis of sagittal otoliths was ... the continental shelf and slope around Elephant Island (Subarea 48.1) and the South Orkney Islands ... differences between the left and right sagittae in BSDs, a univariate and multivariate ANOVA and MANOVA were ... from the 20 harmonics analyzed were homoscedastic and normal, and showed very low level of correlation ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/47 : Author(s): G. Plaza, C. Rodríguez-Valentino and P.M. Arana
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Report on fish by-catch during research fishing activities in Division 58.4.4b between 2008 and 2018
inform bycatch mitigation measures” of the ongoing research plan on Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus ... composition in number and biomass during the period 2008-2018 to investigate the inter-annual variations in ... bycatch patterns, spatial distribution and biological parameters of the main bycatch species. Macrourus ... spp., Antimora rostrata and skates (mostly Amblyraja taaf) were the three dominant species caught as ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-2019/53 : Author(s): C. Péron, C. Chazeau, N. Gasco and F. Massiot-Granier
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BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY AND INCIDENCE OF ENTANGLEMENT OF ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA AT SIGNY ISLAND, SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS 2007/2008
Abstract: This report details the twelfth annual survey of the incidence of entanglements of ... , South Orkney Islands. Data are reported for the period 14 November 2007 to 13 March 2008. Three seals ... ). There was a decrease in the number of plastic packaging bands with only two found in the current season ... (both of which had been cut open), marking a break in the otherwise continued rise in packaging bands ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/26 : Author(s): M.J. Dunn and C.M. Waluda (UK)
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Marine pollutants and fishing gear associated with seabirds at sub Antarctic Marion Island, 1996–1998: trends in relation to longline fishing activity
Abstract: Pollutants found in association with seabirds at subantarctic Marion Island for the ... increase between the 1996/97 and the 1997/98 field seasons. Fishing gear increased at a rate ten times ... toothfish in blastfreezers and 23 toothfish hooks were found. All the rope nooses, and 19 of the-books were ... found during the second year. This increase in fishing gear from 1996/97 to 1997/98 is interesting in ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVII/BG/26 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa
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Krill biomass estimates for South Georgia, December and January 1996/97
conducted within two 80 x 100 km areas over the shelf-break to the north-east and north-west of South ... Georgia during December/January 1996/97. Netting suggested that the mean lengths of krill within the ... to be attributable to krill were identified on the basis of the difference between mean volume ... volume backscattering strengths at 120 kHz were scaled by the appropriate TS value to determine mean ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/48 : Author(s): Goss, C., Watkins, J.L., Brierley, A.S.
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Comparison of temperature situation near South Georgia in December–February, 1989–1990, 1990–1991, 1999–2000 and 2000–2001 on satellite data and information about krill catches in Subarea 48.3
Abstract: Monitoring of the sea surface temperature (SST) in Subarea 48.3 on satellite data (GOES ... -E, Meteosat), use of in situ data and the further analysis of the SST maps, maps of the SST ... anomalies and dynamics provide strictly special, but constant information on hydrological situation in the ... the CCAMLR materials could allow us to assess, with a certain degree of reliability, a potential ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/11 : Author(s): G. Vanyushin (Russia)
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Anthropogenic feather soiling, marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 1998/99
Abstract: This report describes and quantifies the occurrence of anthropogenic feather soiling ... , marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at breeding sites at South Georgia. In this, the ... was recorded in association with wandering albatrosses. Quantities of fishing gear remained within the ... levels of previous years for all other species, except giant petrels, which increased by 75% from the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVIII/BG/07 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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UPDATE ON ITEMS OF INTEREST TO WG-IMAF
Economic Zone that are relevant to the work of WG-IMAF. These developments include refinement of the ... requirement of fishing practices to reduce seabird bycatch by surface longline vessels and the introduction of ... regulations to reduce seabird bycatch by bottom longline vessels. The bycatch of seabirds by fisheries within ... New Zealand’s EEZ in recent years that either breed or forage within the CCAMLR convention area ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/47 : Author(s): N. Walker (New Zealand)