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Using the EPOC modelling framework to assess management procedures for Antarctic krill in Statistical Area 48: evaluating spatial differences in productivity of Antarctic krill
Abstract: Spatially explicit simulation models of the Antarctic marine ecosystem are needed to ... evaluate management procedures for the Antarctic krill fishery. The key issues to be resolved in the ... development of a harvest strategy are whether (i) spatial differences in the productivity of krill give rise ... , particularly as the fishery expands to take the large-scale catch limit. A fourth issue is to determine whether ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/38 Rev. 1 : Author(s): A.J. Constable (Australia)
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By-catch in the Australian fisheries in Division 58.5.2
Abstract: This paper presents bycatch information for the Australian fisheries in Divisions ... 58.5.2 for the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons. Bycatch in the trawl fisheries was low, generally less ... than 1% of the total catch (target plus bycatch). Higher percentage bycatch rates occurred in trawling ... grounds where the fishing effort and therefore target catch was low. Bycatch in the longline fisheries was ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/68 : Author(s): E.M. van Wijk (Australia)
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Exchange of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans between the Prince Edward and Crozet Islands: implications for conservation
Abstract: Exchange of 61 wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans has been recorded between the ... French Crozet Islands and the South African Prince Edward Islands, 1 068 km apart in the Southern Ocean ... . Most movements of banded birds (57) have been westwards, from the Crozets to the Prince Edwards. In all ... only one fledgling from Marion Island has been recorded breeding on Possession. The wandering ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/41 : Author(s): J. Cooper (South Africa) and H. Weimerskirch (France)
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Proposal to commission an independent review of the Secretariat’s data management systems
Abstract: Abstract The Secretariat manages a comprehensive, detailed set of independent or ... related databases which support the work of the Commission and give effect to Article XX of the CAMLR ... Convention. Since the establishment of CCAMLR 28 years ago, there has been no formal, in-depth audit of the ... Secretariat’s data management systems against international best practice. The Commission is invited to consider ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/13 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Executive Secretary’s Report, 2018, including Fourth Year Implementation Report for the Secretariat’s Strategic Plan (2015–2018)
Abstract: This report is the last of four describing the activities of the Secretariat under the ... 2015–2018 Strategic Plan. Highlights of the year are presented, which include the development of a new ... Strategic Plan for the next 4 years 2019–2022. Future reports will be against the format of the new ... Year Implementation Report for the Secretariat’s Strategic Plan (2015–2018) Microsoft Word File: e-cc ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVII/05 : Author(s): Executive Secretary
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DEMOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF ANTARCTIC KRILL IN THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS AREA 2009, FIELDWORK AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS
(Euphausia superba) fishery with the vessel “ Saga Sea ” in the South Orkney Islands area. We present ... preliminary results regarding krill demography from the sampling period in January-March, 2009. Total body ... % adult males and ~64% adult females (overall adult sex ratio: 1:4). The proportion of immature krill was ... similar throughout the study period; whereas the proportion of males decreased and the female proportion ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/10 : Author(s): B.A. Krafft and G. Skaret (Norway)
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Preliminary studies on age and growth of Dissostichus eleginoides in the Ob-Lena Bank
Abstract: Preliminary studies on the age and growth of Dissostichus eleginoides sampled in the ... 2007/08 season in the Ob-Lena Bank were carried out. The ages of 214 of 3,013 fish sampled by Observers ... were estimated. The estimated ages ranged from 5 to 46 years for males and from 5 to 50 years for ... females. Five to eighteen years gave large contribution to the total age groups for both sexes. Females ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/48 : Author(s): K. Taki, M. Kiyota and T. Ichii (Japan)
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A review of tag-based stock assessments of the Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni in Subarea 48.4
Abstract: The stock abundance of Antarctic toothfish in Subarea 48.4 is estimated using tag based ... mark-recapture analysis. During WG-FSA-14 the recommendation was made that the stock should move from ... the Petersen estimation method to the use of the Chapman bias corrected estimator; a correction ... specifically developed to reduce estimation bias in populations with low recaptures, a feature typical of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/44 : Author(s): N. Walker, M. Soeffker, V. Laptikhovsky and T. Earl (United Kingdom)
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Estimating prey consumption of the non-breeder component of an Adélie penguin population
Abstract: Estimating the consumption of prey by higher-order predators is a priority for WG-EMM ... as an element in CCAMLR’s ecosystem-based approach to management for the krill fishery in the ... recorded at the breeding colonies. However, recent work suggests that the size of the non-breeder component ... of an Adélie penguin population can be substantial compared with the size of the breeder population ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/12 : Author(s): L. Emmerson and C. Southwell
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Outline for year 2 of the 3-year longline survey to determine toothfish population connectivity between Subareas 48.2 and 48.4
Abstract: This paper outlines the specific research objectives and plan to achieve them for the ... second year of an agreed 3-year longline survey, in the wider context of connecting the recently ... undertaken surveys in Subarea 48.2 with the established fishery in Subarea 48.4. The overall research ... distributions of benthic bycatch species. This paper reiterates the key points of WG-SAM-17/34, updates ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/45 : Author(s): M. Söffker and M. Belchier