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Discharge of offal in the Ross Sea – follow up to COMM CIRC 15/15–SC CIRC 15/06
Abstract: In response to a request from New Zealand (COMM CIRC 15/15) the Secretariat undertook ... an analysis of the information provided by New Zealand in previous years (COMM CIRC 13/09), along ... with VMS records, CCAMLR Observer Reports and other information the Secretariat has available to ... facilitate further investigation. In 2013 reports of offal were tightly clustered in a small area on the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/10 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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A drone-based Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) census of the St. Telmo Islands, South Shetland Archipelago
to obtain in remote polar environments. The standard approach for income breeding pinnipeds, such as ... the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), is to annually survey pup production. Fur seal ... population dynamics in the South Shetland archipelago are largely driven by two breeding colonies, Cape ... Shirreff and the Saint Telmo Islands. Although annual counts have been undertaken at Cape Shirreff since ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/65 : Author(s): D.J. Krause and M.E. Goebel
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Proposal for the removal of night setting requirement for autoline vessels fishing in Division 58.5.2
fishing in Division 58.5.2 to occur at any time of the day/night cycle. The proposal forms part of an ... adaptive approach to management, which considers the risk status of the fishery, knowledge on the ... effectiveness of mitigation measures, mitigation performance record of the vessel, seabird mortality levels and ... assessment of the likely effects of individual mitigation measures to total mitigation response. Since the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/73 : Author(s): G. Robertson and B. Baker (Australia)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia, during the 2003 winter and 2003/04 breeding season
Abstract: In the fourteenth consecutive winter of the survey at Bird Island, South Georgia, the ... number of entanglements increased by 56% compared to last year and the majority of injuries were ... classified as severe (71%). In contrast the sixteenth consecutive summer of reporting saw a decrease of 45 ... % compared to last year and was the lowest number of entanglements recorded since the first observations were ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIII/BG/14 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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A review of models of Southern Ocean ecosystems: krill, ecosystems and the impacts of harvesting
Abstract: An ecosystem approach for the management of human activities in the Southern Ocean is ... enshrined in the principles of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ... (CCAMLR). The implementation of such an approach requires an understanding of the wider dynamics of the ... ecosystem, which is best achieved through the development of ecosystem models. However, not all models will ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/67 : Author(s): S.L. Hill, E.J. Murphy, K. Reid, P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom), A. Constable (Australia)
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Modelling the consequences of Antarctic krill harvesting of Antarctic fur seals
Abstract: In terms of the convention governing the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic ... Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), management advice for the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) fishery ... should take the needs of the predators of krill into account in order to reduce the risk of deleterious ... ). A single species yield model is currently being used by the CCAMLR Scientific Committee to recommend ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/66 : Author(s): R.B. Thomson, D.S. Butterworth (South Africa), I.L. Boyd and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)
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Pursuit and polynyas in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
influence biological activity. We pursued daily transition of polynyas in the Ross Sea, Antarctica from 1978 ... through 1994 using images of sea ice concentrations by the satellite microwave observations. A typical ... polynya existed in the inner area of the Ross Sea in November of the each year. The shape of the polynya ... changed remarkably in several days. The polynyas have the range of approximately 500 km from the bottom to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/31 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, T. Tanaka, Y. Okada, N. Kimura and S. Matsumura (Japan)
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INFORMATION ON ILLEGAL FISHING IN STATISTICAL AREA 58 REPORT OF OBSERVATIONS AND INSPECTIONS IN THE CCAMLR AREA 2008/2009 SEASON (1 July 2008 – 15 August 2009)
Abstract: This document summarises French observations of illegal fishing for the past year and ... reports on implementation of the CCAMLR Inspection System. It includes an analysis of developments in this ... domain and proposes ways in which the fight against illegal fishing can be stepped up. The geographical ... , including the Crozet, Kerguelen and Heard and McDonald EEZs respectively, and Divisions 58.4.3 and 58.4.4 ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVIII/37 : Author(s): Delegation of France
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Results on by-catch of fish during Ukrainian, Polish and Japanese krill fishery in the South Orkney Islands, South Georgia and Shetland Islands areas
krill Euphausia superba Dana conducted by the Ukrainian trawler Grigory Kovtun in the vicinity of South ... Georgia (May to July, 1992), the Polish trawler Lepus on the fishing grounds of South Orkney Islands and ... South Georgia (March to May, 1993), and by the Japanese fishing vessels No.3 and No.5 Chiyo Maru in the ... South Georgia area (July to August, 1992) and Niitaka Maru to the north of the South Shetland Islands ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/19 : Author(s): Cielniaszek, Z., Pakhomov, E.A., Iwami, T.
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The UK fish stock assessment survey bottom trawl for South Georgia
Abstract: Criteria for the choice of a trawl for demersal fish surveys are discussed. Details of ... the construction and performance of the 120 Bolt Rope Bottom Trawl used during the recent fish stock ... assessment survey around South Georgia on the Falklands Protector are presented. It is proposed to use this ... trawl during future surveys in the area in order to improve continuity in the survey series. The design ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-91/16 : Author(s): G. Parkes (United Kingdom)