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Implementing Article II of the CAMLR Convention
Abstract: This paper presents a document written by Dr. Robert (Bob) Hofman and submitted to the ... 2015 CCAMLR Symposium in Santiago, Chile. Dr. Hofman was a member of the United States delegation ... during the negotiation of the CAMLR Convention. ASOC has provided some additional background for CCAMLR’s ... consideration. As a participant in the Convention negotiations, Dr. Hofman has an in-depth understanding of the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/25 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Influence of tag numbers, size of tagged fish, duration of the tagging program, and auxiliary data on bias and precision of an integrated stock assessment
collection, this study investigated how the bias and precision of a CASAL assessment is influenced by various ... aspects of a tagging program, in particular the effects of the numbers of fish tagged, the duration of a ... tagging program, the size of tagged fish, and the type of auxiliary data used in the assessment. The ... numbers were important particularly in the early stages of an exploratory fishery to ensure some ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/24 : Author(s): P.E. Ziegler (Australia)
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Breeding biology and diet of pintado petrels Daption capense at Bouvetøya during the summer of 1996/97
Abstract: A study on the breeding biology and diet of Pintado Petrels Daption capense was ... success for the total 300 pairs of breeding Pintado Petrels at Nyrøysa was 59 %. Three study colonies were ... was 85 %. Rates of failure were higher during the chick stage than in the egg stage for both of these ... two study colonies. The mean hatching date in these colonies was 11 January, and the first and last ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/56 : Author(s): Isaksen, K., Huyser, O., Dyer, B.M., Cooper, J., Ryan, P.
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Review of activities in monitoring marine debris in the CAMLR Convention Area
entanglements and hydrocarbon soilings were received from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Non ... -fishing items such as plastics, packaging materials and wood remain the most common type of debris items ... found in beach surveys. The fishing items found were mostly from longline and trawl origins. Plastic ... packaging bands continue to be found in beach surveys, however, for the first time since these surveys ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/64 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Marine debris collected at Cape Shirreff during the Antarctic season 2000/01
Abstract: The eighth annual beach debris survey was carried out at Cape Shirreff (62º 28' S ... ., 60º 48' W.), Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica during the austral summer 2000 ... the snowmelt occurred. The debris were counted by beaches, measured, weighed and classified into four ... kg. As it used to occur during all previous Antarctic seasons plastic material was the most abundant ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/25 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile
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Review of CCAMLR activities on monitoring marine debris in the Convention Area
Abstract: The current status of national surveys on monitoring of marine debris and their impact ... on marine mammals and seabirds in the Convention Area has been reviewed. The CCAMLR Marine Debris ... debris for the first time from Marion Island (Subarea 58.7). There are 4 sites that have data for more ... wood items, reached a peak in the period 1994-1996 at Bird Island and Signy Island, but have declined ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/13 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Report on the CCAMLR Marine Debris monitoring program
entanglements and hydrocarbon soilings were received for 2015 from South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United ... States and Uruguay. Non-fishing items such as plastics, packaging materials and wood remain the most ... common type of debris items found in beach surveys. The fishing items found were mostly from longline and ... bands found at Bird Island. The amount of debris in albatross colonies at Bird Island varies; debris ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/15 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat
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Research plan for the exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in 2015/16 in Division 58.4.4
Abstract: Regarding the low levels of stocks of Dissostichus spp. and the high levels of IUU ... fishing, CCAMLR decided to close the fishery in 2002 in division 58.4.4. Since 2008 only one vessel ... 24-01. In 2014, WG-FSA agreed research fishing conducted in the research blocks C and D by two ... vessels using longlines: Shinsei Maru No. 3 (Japan) and the Saint André (France). For the season 2014/15 ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/67 : Author(s): A. Rélot-Stirnemann (France)
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Conveners’ Report of the Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring
Abstract: The Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring was held in Punta ... Arenas, Chile (19-20 May 2016). A workshop report was prepared by the conveners (Dr Susie Grant and Dr ... Polly Penhale), and is provided in full below. The report was discussed at the Committee for ... ), and at WG-EMM-16 in Bologna, Italy (WG-EMM-16 Report, paragraphs 6.8 to 6.28). The CEP agreed that the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/07 : Author(s): Delegations of the United Kingdom and the USA
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Report of the UK groundfish survey at South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3) in January 2017
Abstract: 1. The 2017 UK groundfish survey took place over the South Georgia and Shag Rocks shelf ... on the FV Sil between the 30th January – 7th February 2017. 2. 72 random hauls were completed ... density was highest on the fishing grounds on the moraine banks of the NW stratum. 4. Clear regional ... Rocks, at low levels in the northern strata of South Georgia and more abundant in the Southern strata ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/44 : Author(s): M. Belchier, V. Foster, S. Gregory, S. Hill, V. Laptikhovsky, P. Lafite and L. Featherstone