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Development of an underwater setting method for surface longliners, to minimise the accidental capture of seabirds
Abstract: In response to the Department of Conservation's concerns for the accidental ... placement devices were evaluated. Two methods being selected for further in depth evaluation. The first ... concept being a towed paravane with an endless cable employed to transport and release the bait at the ... depth to which the paravane was set. Although practical bait carrying devices were designed, the ability ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/54 : Author(s): Bentley, N., Smith, M.
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Indexing maturation of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea region
Abstract: The longline fisheries for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in subareas 88.1 ... and 88.2 have provided more than a decade of observations to aid in understanding the life history and ... ecology of toothfish. Updated spawning ogives for males and females support the currently used values ... fish developing to spawn in the upcoming season. Evidence is accumulating that almost all Antarctic ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/40 : Author(s): S. Parker and P. Marriott (New Zealand)
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Report of the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Sustainable Financing for 2016/17
Abstract: A summary of the work undertaken in relation to tasks identified at CCAMLR-XXXV for the ... attention of the Intersessional Correspondence Group – Sustainable Financing (ICG-SF) during 2016/17 is ... presented. During this period, the ICG-SF received information from the Secretariat relating to the ... following tasks requested by CCAMLR-XXXV: issues associated with funding conveners to meetings of the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/11 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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By-catch of rays in the 2002/03 toothfish fishery around South Georgia
Abstract: The 2002/2003 fishing season was the first in which three new policies for rays were ... tried: • It was the first in which vessels were asked to cut off all rays at water level to assist ... survival and conservation of rays; • It was the first in which very good quality information was available ... from all observers’ tally periods on the catch rates of rays cut off the line; • In 2003 the UK, with ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/58 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, J. Pearce and M. Endicott (United Kingdom)
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Consumption of krill by minke whales in Areas IV and V of the Antarctic
Abstract: The consumption of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) by the southern minke whale ... (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Areas IV and V of the Antarctic was estimated from diurnal change in the ... forestomach content mass, standard metabolism and the body mass increase methods based on JARPA (the Japanese ... Whale Research Program Under Special Permit in the Antarctic) data. Estimates of the daily food ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/17 : Author(s): Fujise, Y., Tamura, T., Ichii, T.
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Indices of prey availability near the Seal Island CEMP site: 1990 through 1996
Abstract: Four indices of prey availability are calculated for prey surveys conducted in the ... vicinity of the Seal Island CEMP site during the austral summers of 1990-96. The indices are measures of ... AMLR surveys each year were sub-sampled to include the foraging range of predators breeding at Seal ... Island. The average depth of the prey field and its average distance from Seal Island were positively ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/22 : Author(s): Hewitt, R.P., Demer, D.A., Watters, G.
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Progress report on the Weddell Sea Research Program Stage II
Abstract: Results of longline survey on Antarctic toothfish in the Weddell Sea (Stage II) are ... presented in the paper. Options I and II of the survey were carried out from February 10 to February 22 ... , 2014. A total of 34 longlines were set: the Option I – 10+20 and the Option II – 4 at the depths ... ranging from 605 to 2031 m. A total number of hooks – 116 100, area – 13565 km 2. Catch value of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-14/05 : Author(s): A.F. Petrov, I.I. Gordeev, S.V. Pianova and E.F. Uryupova (Russia)
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Reporting procedures for the continuous fishing method
Abstract: Information about catch and effort from the fishing fleet is vital for evaluation of ... the management of krill. The continuous trawling method requires adapted reporting procedures compared ... to traditional trawling. The present reporting procedure of 2-hour intervals has demonstrated ... imprecise and with some systematic errors in positioning the catch. In previous EMM meeting we proposed ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/48 : Author(s): O.R. Godø and T. Knutsen
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Draft Research and Monitoring Plan for the South Orkney Islands southern Shelf Marine Protected Area (MPA Planning Domain 1, Subarea 48.2)
Abstract: This paper aims to advance the dialogue about the development of a revised Research and ... Monitoring Plan (RMP) for the South Orkney Islands southern shelf (SOI SS) MPA in order to further the ... harmonisation of CM 91-03 and CM 91-04, whilst recognising and aiming to contribute to the wider context of the ... MPA planning processes in Domain 1, and as appropriate, Domain 3. The proposed framework sets out the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/09 : Author(s): Delegation of the European Union
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Some components of uncertainty in the CCAMLR 2000 acoustical survey of krill
Abstract: Quickly studied and quantified were sources of uncertainty in the CCAMLR 2000 ... acoustical estimate of krill abundance in FAO statistical area 48. The variance in system calibration was ... evaluated in relation to the effects of variant water temperature and salinity on sound speed, sound ... and orientations. The uncertainty in species delineation was also investigated through the same ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/49 : Author(s): D.A. Demer (USA)