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Beached birds: a guide used by north pacific groundfish observers to identify seabirds incidentally caught in fisheries
Abstract: In the fall of 2002, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) purchased 300 ... vessels in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. This new guide replaces a dichotomous key on looseleaf paper ... with black and white drawings. The purpose of using this new educational tool is to enhance the ability ... of fishery observers to accurately identify seabirds as they come up in the sampled fishing gear ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/24 : Author(s): T. Hass and S. Davis (USA)
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Quantifying habitat use in satellite-tracked pelagic seabirds: application of kernel estimation to albatross locations
Abstract: We develop a new approach to quantifying habitat use within the foraging ranges of ... from black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses (Diomedea melanophris and D. chrysostoma) during the ... chick rearing period of the breeding cycle at South Georgia. At this time the activity range of these ... . In contrast, kernel estimation reveals that the main foraging areas of these two sympatric ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/19 : Author(s): A.G. Wood (United Kingdom), B. Naef-Daenzer (Switzerland), P.A. Prince and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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Developing a penguin tracking database to help determine their most important foraging areas
Abstract: In late 2012 SCAR, BirdLife and BAS developed a successful proposal (to the UK Darwin ... Plus Fund) to build an integrated database that would facilitate the analysis of penguin tracking data ... . The database will have a web-based user interface that will allow data holders to submit data and ... attach a range of access levels; access may be granted only to the data holder, to a wider group, or to a ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/18 : Author(s): M. Hindell (SCAR), B. Lascelles (BirdLife) and P. Trathan (United Kingdom)
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Have Antarctic toothfish returned to McMurdo Sound?
, has led to conclusions that the commercial bottom longline fishery for toothfish in the Ross Sea has ... drastically altered the toothfish population with cascading effects on the McMurdo Sound ecosystem. However ... detected in the areas sampled. These findings highlight the importance of continued standardized monitoring ... for detecting the potential effects of fishing on the Ross Sea ecosystem. Author(s): S.J. Parker, S ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/P01 : Author(s): S.J. Parker, S. Mormede, A.L. DeVries, S.M. Hanchet and R. Eisert
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CEMP data inventory and summary analysis
Abstract: The CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program (CEMP) was established to detect changes in ... in accordance with the ‘ecosystem approach’. This report: summarises CEMP data submissions for the ... 2015/16 season, presents a CEMP data inventory and metadata overview for Area 48, and outlines the ... process and methods used to provide data extracts for analyses by Members as part of the development of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/08 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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Quantifying habitat use in satellite-tracked pelagic seabirds: application of kernel estimation to albatross locations
Abstract: We develop a new approach to quantifying habitat use within the foraging ranges of ... from black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses Diomedea melanophris and D. chrysostoma during the chick ... -rearing period of the breeding cycle at South Georgia. At this time the activity range of these two ... contrast, kernel estimation reveals that the main foraging areas of these two sympatric, congeneric species ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/67 : Author(s): A.G. Wood (United Kingdom), B. Naef-Daenzer (Switzerland), P.A. Prince and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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Krill processing factors
Abstract: There is a wealth of earlier papers on the topic of krill processing dominated by the ... works of Grantham (1977) “The Utilization of Krill”, Budzinski et al (1985), “The Possibilities of ... (1980-82). Within these papers are the fundamentals of product yields and the framework for determining ... production has some time of uncertainty ahead due to a shake out of the industry, with departure of older ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/44 : Author(s): D. Rogers (USA)
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Southern royal albatross Diomedea epomophora census on Campbell Island, 4 January–6 February 1996, and a review of population figures
the period 4 January to 6 February 1996 of the 1995-96 breeding season. A total of 7787 occupied nests ... was counted. Comparisons of different field census techniques and a measure of the rate of egg loss ... suggest that 8200-8600 pairs were nesting in the 1995-96 breeding season. The count WDS 23% higher than in ... thoroughly. Interpretation of population trend data from previous censuses Is difficult because of the likely ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVII/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Geographic aspects of Euphausia superba resources exploitation
adjacent waters (subregions outside of the Scotia Sea are under pecular attention) are observed ... . Concentration of E.superba of the same order of biomass volume as in the Scotia Sea were observed at several ... subregions along the peripherie of Weddell Gyre and also nearshore of Antarctide. Offshore concentrations of ... areas should include the preliminar getting of knowledges on changeability of E.superba aggregation ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/04 : Author(s): R.R. Makarov (Russia)
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Geographic aspects of Euphausia superba resources exploitation
adjacent waters (subregions outside of the Scotia Sea are under pecular attention) are observed ... ° Concentration of E.superba of the same order of biomass volume as in the Scotia Sea were observed at several ... subregions along the peripherie of Weddell Gyre and also nearshore of Antarctide. Offshore concentrations of ... areas should include the preliminar getting of knowledges on changeability of E.superba aggregation ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/31 : Author(s): R.R. Makarov (Russian Federation)