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Decision-making
regulatory effects must continue to be addressed on the basis of consensus, determining how such decisions ... were implemented could be submitted to a different procedure. Within the existing framework of the ... Convention, this can be achieved through: the provision by CMs that decisions regarding their implementation ... will be adopted by majority rule, or that any State concerned will abstain from participating in the ...
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Chapter 5: Managing Fishing Activities
living resources, biological data required to assess the composition of the catch, and reporting of ... -XXXVII, paragraph 14.3; COMM CIRCs 18/94 and 18/95 (2015) CCAMLR-XXXIV/17 Rev. 1 by the Chair of ... intersessional correspondence group to review prior work on the regulatory framework and develop guidance on ... a notification fee and review by the Scientific Committee (CCAMLR-XXXVII, paragraph 5.30; CCAMLR-38 ...
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Staff list
The staff of the Secretariat and a brief overview of their role. Office of the Executive Secretary ... Monitoring and Compliance Office of the Executive Secretary Executive Secretary Dr David Agnew Appointed ... under Article XVII of the Convention, and subject to the guidance of the Commission, the Executive ... Secretary is responsible for the overall coordination of Secretariat services to Members and administration ...
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Commission
The Commission, established under Article VII of the CAMLR Convention, gives effect to the ... Convention’s objectives and principles set out in Article II. The Commission includes a Scientific Committee ... established by the CAMLR Convention. The Commission and the Scientific Committee can establish subsidiary ... bodies that are necessary for the performance of their functions. The Commission has established two ...
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CCAMLR Scientific Scholarship Scheme
In 2010 CCAMLR established the CCAMLR Scientific Scholarship Scheme to assist early career ... scientists 1 to participate in the work of the Scientific Committee and its working groups. The objective of ... the Scholarship Scheme is to contribute to capacity building within the CCAMLR scientific community in ... order to help generate and sustain a sound basis of scientific expertise able to support the ...
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Cooperation with others
The Commission and the Scientific Committee cooperate with intergovernmental and non-governmental ... associations and civil society. Article XXIII of the CAMLR Convention provides that: The Commission and the ... Scientific Committee shall co-operate with the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties on matters falling ... within the competence of the latter. The Commission and the Scientific Committee shall co-operate, as ...
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Chapter 4: Science
Recommendation Responsible body Activities to date Status Recommendation 5: On the basis of ... currently available data, the Scientific Committee, in consultation with SCAR, external experts and other ... organisations, deliver an initial assessment of the status, trends and possible future trajectories of Antarctic ... marine living resources, and the interactions of fisheries with them. (paragraphs 30 to 32) Scientific ...
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Chapter 2: Delivering CCAMLR’s Conservation Objective/General Context
be taken by the Commission to achieving its objective throughout the whole of the Convention Area as ... ) Commission (2019) The Commission has endorsed the work of the Scientific Committee to develop an integrated ... krill fishery management strategy which integrates spatial information from the fishery, from krill ... research and from ecosystem research and monitoring (CCAMLR-38, paragraph 5.17) Over the period 2019–2022 ...
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CCAMLR tagging program
The CCAMLR tagging program is administered by the Secretariat which provides standardised tagging ... protocols and tagging equipment to fishing vessels engaged in the program. This standardisation is an ... essential component of the tagging program as CCAMLR uses the fisheries-based tag and recapture rates as the ... basis of abundance estimation for toothfish. The Secretariat receives and stores data on all fish that ...
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Krill fisheries and sustainability
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) Krill are small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, and are ... found in all the world's oceans. In the Southern Ocean, one species, the Antarctic krill, Euphausia ... superba, makes up an estimated biomass of around 379 000 000 tonnes 1, more than that of the global ... is replaced through reproduction and subsequent growth of the krill population. Krill can live up to ...
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