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Preliminary investigations into a two-area stock assessment model for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Amundsen Sea Region
Abstract: In 2013, the Scientific Committee of CCAMLR could not achieve consensus on a stock ... status for Antarctic toothfish in the Amundsen Sea Region (ASR- Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C-H) and ... noted that the assessments were unable to fit the patterns in the recaptures of tagged fish seen in SSRU ... 88.2H. As a consequence, WG-SAM requested further runs be carried out with emigration estimated in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/57 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)
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Scientific requirements for an orderly development of the krill fishery
Abstract: At CCAMLR XXV Australia presented the results of the BROKE-West acoustic krill biomass ... survey. These were used by the Scientific Committee to recommend to the Commission a revised ... tonnes). During the Commission deliberations on this issue Australia noted that while the scientific data ... supported the large increase in the precautionary catch limit, such a large increase required the inclusion ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/23 : Author(s): A. Constable, G. Slocum and S. Nicol (Australia)
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EFFECT OF STERN-SETTING TUNNEL ON THE SINK RATE OF INTEGRATED WEIGHT LONGLINE (IWL)
stern-setting tunnel, and the proposed experimentation to evaluate this method's effect on the sink ... rate of demersal integrated weight longline (IWL). The stern setting tunnel consists of an elongated ... steel tube, built in to the longliner during a dry-dock refit. The tube angles downwards from where the ... line exits the baiting machine, which is positioned in the aft section of the stern setting deck, to ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/38 : Author(s): I. Hay and G. Robertson (Australia)
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Modifications to the Generalised Yield Model in 2004, version GYM501E.EXE
Abstract: The Generalised Yield Model is used by the WG-FSA in the assessments of Champsocephalus ... gunnari, Dissostichus eliginoides and Euphausia superba. Its current version is GYM501D.EXE. In the course ... of reviewing the methods for estimating the time series of recruitments of D. elegionoides for WG-FSA ... in 2004 an error in the calculation of the recruitment series from survey data was detected. This ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/91 : Author(s): A.J. Constable (Australia)
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The Ross Sea, Antarctica, where all ecosystem processes still remain for study
Abstract: The Ross Sea is a well-defined embayment of Antarctica about the size of southern ... Europe, bounded by Victoria Land to the west; King Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land, to the east ... ; the Ross Ice Shelf to the south; and the Southern Ocean, Pacific Sector, to the north. Its waters are ... composed of two related biotic systems: the Ross Sea Shelf Ecosystem (RSShE) and the Ross Sea Slope ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/60 : Author(s): D. Ainley (USA)
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A proposal for compiling information, assessments and science that underpin established CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas and provide the basis for ongoing management, science and review: an MPA Report
Abstract: The General Framework for the Establishment of CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas in ... Conservation Measure 91-04 provides the necessary guidance to the Commission for formulating a conservation ... the Scientific Committee. We propose that a method is needed for consolidating and maintaining that ... advice in a readily accessible document, which can then form the basis for review, refinement and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/49 : Author(s): A. Constable, M. Guest, D. Welsford (Australia), P. Koubbi (France) and L. Weragoda (Australia)
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DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH IN THE ROSS SEA
the purposes of addressing items on the FEMA 2 agenda. It summarises the management of the fishery ... , catch and effort, size distribution, and tagging data collected from the Antarctic toothfish fishery up ... to the 2007/08 fishing year. It focuses in particular on Antarctic toothfish catches taken from the ... continental shelf of the Ross Sea itself, because this is the area where any ecosystem effects related to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/40 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Ecosystem studies carried out during the second Ukrainian Marine Antarctic Expedition in Subareas 48.2 and 48.1 in 1998
Abstract: In 1998 the 2nd Ukrainian Marine Complex Antarctic Expedition (UMCAE) on board ... scientific research vessel "Ernst Krenkel" took place in the western part of the Atlantic sector of ... the Antarctic. It was arranged by the Ukrainian Antarctic Center of the Ministry for Affairs of ... Science and Technologies of Ukraine. The preliminary analysis of the data compiled allows revealing some ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/5 : Author(s): V. Bibik and P. Gozhik (Ukraine)
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Foraging patterns in the Antarctic shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis) at Harmony Point, Antarctica
Abstract: During the 1995/96 and 1996/97 summer seasons the foraging pattern of the Antarctic ... usually foraged once a day; females early in the morning and males when their partners returned to the ... nests. During the rearing period the parents incremented the number of daily foraging trips usually ... alternating the time at sea. Compared to the incubating period, when rearing chicks individuals of both sexes ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/22 : Author(s): R. Casaux and A. Baroni (Argentina)
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Plan of research program of the Ukraine in Subarea 48.2 in 2016 (second season)
Abstract: During March-April 2015 Ukraine began the research within statistical subarea 48.2. The ... research activities on the assessment of the stock state of the Dissostichus spp species in subarea 48.2 ... will be carried out within three years. Implementation of the tagging program in the long-term ... prospective will provide the indicators for the procedure of abundance assessment of the studied species in ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/45 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine