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Quantifying vessel performance in the CCAMLR tagging program: spatially and temporally controlled measures of relative mortality and tag-detection rates
Abstract: A reliable commercial tagging program is critical to the successful management by ... CCAMLR of a number of toothfish fisheries in Antarctica, but the evaluation of tagging performance has ... been thus far inconclusive because the confounding effect of factors such as time and location of ... , by controlling for the spatial and temporal confounding factors using a case-control study design, we ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/47 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)
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Developing the Secretariat’s data management systems
Abstract: The CCAMLR Secretariat’s data management systems provide the secure infrastructure and ... repository for CCAMLR data which are submitted by CCAMLR Members to support the policy, scientific and ... administrative work of the Commission and Scientific Committee. These systems are being redeveloped as part of a ... long-term program of work which started in 2013. The work has focused on the development of structural ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/BG/25 Rev. 1 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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The fishery for Champsocephalus gunnari and its biology at Heard Island (Division 58.5.2)
Abstract: Commercial trawl fisheries in the modern era started within the Heard Island EEZ in ... 1997. This paper summarises the fishing activities to date and collates the information on the biology ... of the species gathered from the fishery and from a series of fishery-independent surveys conducted ... between 1990 and 2000. Icefish abundance varies widely between years and the fishery is dependent on ...
Meeting Document : WAMI-01/04 : Author(s): R. Williams, E. van Wijk, A. Constable and T. Lamb (Australia)
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Squalus acanthias – a new species in the Antarctic ichthyofauna (Division 58.5.1)
Abstract: Four species of shark have been known to date to occur in the sub-Antarctic waters ... was captured in February 1995 on the shelf of the Kerguelen Islands from the depth of about 195 m and ... duly described. Squalus acanthias is believed to be one of the most widespread shark species in the ... World Ocean. The fact of capturing this species in the Kerguelen waters enlarges by far its range and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/14 : Author(s): Pshenichnov, L.K.
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Research plan for the Spanish exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2: preliminary results of stage 1 (2012/13 season)
Abstract: The Spanish vessel Tronio started the research plan in the 2012/13 season using the ... Spanish bottom longline system. One depletion experiments was completed in each of the SSRU surveyed ... (58.4.1H and 58.4.1G). Three prospecting-phase clusters of sets did not reach the established threshold to ... start the depletion. A prospective estimation of the local biomass (B LOC) of the two localized areas ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/30 : Author(s): R. Sarralde, L.J. López Abellán and S. Barreiro (Spain)
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Reconciling theoretical versus empirical target strengths of krill; effects of phase variability on the distorted wave Born approximation
Abstract: A model was recently proposed to predict the target strengths (TS) of Antarctic krill ... ]. Based on the distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA), the model depends upon the coherent summation of ... broadside incidence (?? 90°), but large discrepancies were observed at other angles away from the main lobe ... . As the side-lobe measurements were both higher than the model predictions and above the noise floor ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/50 : Author(s): D.A. Demer and S.G. Conti (USA)
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APPLICATION TO UNDERTAKE WINTER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN CCAMLR SUBAREA 88.1 (SSRUS 88.1B, 88.1C AND 88.1G) IN THE 2008/09 SEASON
Abstract: New Zealand proposes to conduct a scientific research survey during the austral winter ... in CCAMLR SSRUs 88.1B, 88.1C and, ice permitting, 88.1G in 2008/09, as the first in a three year time ... series. The proposal is for a targeted longline survey designed to cover critical gaps in the knowledge ... of the life cycle of D. mawsoni in the Ross Sea by collecting biological samples from a broad spread ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/62 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand
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Assessment models for Patagonian toothfish in research block 58.4.3a_1 of Division 58.4.3a, Elan Bank for the years 2005-2014
m) CASAL models for stock status assessments of Dissostichus eleginoides in the research block ... 58.4.3a_1 following the recommendations of the WG-FSA-2014 meeting. Two runs were carried out: including or ... excluding the data from fish tagged in 2012. The likelihood profiles for tagged fish released in 2012 for ... ELAN_1 model reflected a large number of recaptures of the tags released concentrated in the western area ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/24 : Author(s): K. Taki (Japan), S. Mormede (New Zealand) and T. Ichii (Japan)
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Larval development and spawning ecology of euphausiids in the Ross Sea and its adjacent waters in 2004/05
Abstract: The horizontal and vertical distributions of larvae and reproductive timing of ... euphausiids were investigated in the Ross Sea and its adjacent waters during austral summer 2004–2005 ... . Occurrences of larvae of Euphausia frigida and E. triacantha were confined to the northern oceanic area where ... the Upper Circumpolar Deep Water prevailed, although their juvenile and adult stages extended the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P06 : Author(s): K. Taki, T. Yabuki, Y. Noiri, T. Hayashi and M. Naganobu
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A description of current metrics and methods used in providing advice to the Scientific Committee on setting catch limits and assessing research plans in research blocks in exploratory fisheries and closed areas
Abstract: In recent years there have been a number of changes in the criteria, metrics and ... in research plans. This has resulted in some confusion in the application of methods and the intended ... purpose of the metrics included in the summary table presented to the Scientific Committee that includes ... recommended research catch limits. Given the importance of this table, and the need to ensure clarity in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/18 Rev. 1 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat