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Towards a seabird mortality risk assessment: distribution of seabirds in the WCPFC Convention Area and potential overlap with fisheries
Abstract: This paper reviews the distribution of seabird species with the WCPFC Area. From a ... review of the distributions of 99 species of albatross and petrel, 16 species of albatross and 60 species ... of petrel occur within the area of the WCPFC, and are potentially vulnerable to fisheries bycatch ... ), Vulnerable (n =26) and Near Threatened (n = 7). The remaining 30 species are classified by the IUCN as Least ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/30 : Author(s): S. Waugh (New Zealand)
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Proposal to allow daytime setting of longlines between 15 and 30 April in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery in CCAMLR Statistical Division 58.5.2
Abstract: This paper summarises historic effort and seabird bycatch during the pre-season ... extension period (15–30 April) in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery in CCAMLR statistical division ... 58.5.2. It notes that significant fishing effort has occurred in the pre-season extension period, by ... both of the longline vessels that operate in this fishery and in several seasons, and that no birds ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-11/07 : Author(s): I. Hay (Australia)
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A TIME FOR ACTION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ANTARCTIC KRILL FISHERIES
Abstract: In this paper, ASOC draws CCAMLR’s attention to the most pressing issues in relation to ... the ecosystem-based management of the krill fishery, including the adoption of a conservation measure ... that ensures systematic scientific observer coverage, the development of a coordinated research plan to ... address key scientific uncertainties at the SSMU level in Area 48, and the consideration of feedback ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/24 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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Recent increase and southern expansion of Adelie penguin populations in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, related to climatic warming
Abstract: The numbers of Adelie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron and Jacquinot) in the Ross ... Sea, Antarctica, have increased markedly over the past 10 years. Proportionally, this increase is most ... pronounced in McMurdo Sound, where the species’ breeding range has recently been extended 3 km south to Cape ... Barne (77°35’S) with the re-occupation of a former rookery that was abandoned sometime before the ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/22 : Author(s): R.H. Taylor and P.R. Wilson (New Zealand)
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Preliminary analyses in support of the CEMP Review Workshop: serial correlations
Abstract: As part of the preliminary analyses undertaken in preparation for the CEMP Review ... Workshop, the Secretariat has documented serial correlation in time series of CEMP indices. The values ... input to the serial correlation analysis were the ‘transformed’ annual index values reported in WG-EMM ... -03/24. Serial correlation in biological indices occurred in 4, 10 and 33 % of the time series at ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/27 : Author(s): Secretariat
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THE ROSS SEA: A CANDIDATE FOR IMMEDIATE INCLUSION IN A NETWORK OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS
Abstract: In the Southern Ocean fisheries are increasingly being exploited while the effects of ... , with initial inclusion of the well-researched Ross Sea, the area of the Southern Ocean having ... relatively little human interference so far. Under present climate change scenarios, it could be among the ... last stretches of the world’s oceans where sea ice remains an important part of the system. The Ross ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/30 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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THE APPLICATION OF CONSERVATION MEASURE 21-03 (NOTIFICATIONS OF INTENT TO PARTICIPATE IN A FISHERY FOR EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA) TO CONTRACTING PARTIES
Abstract: Australia is encouraged by the willingness of Members to support the orderly and ... precautionary development of the krill fishery as it continues to expand. Currently Contracting Parties as well ... as Members are able to participate in krill fisheries. This is different to the approach taken by the ... consistent approach to the management of CCAMLR fisheries (which CCAMLR is currently seeking to achieve) and ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/37 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia
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Variability of krill stock composition and distribution in the vicinity of Elephant Island during AMLR investigations 1988-1992
Abstract: Krill stock composition and distributional patterns in the vicinity of Elephant Island ... during austral summer 1988-1992 are described. Changes in both size and maturity composition over the ... five year period indicates strong recruitment from the 1987/88 and 1990/91 year classes and poor ... recruitment from the 1989/90 and 1990/91 year classes. Year class success may be related to the abundance of ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/12 : Author(s): V. Loeb (USA) and V. Siegel (Germany)
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Monitoring krill larvae at the Weddell-Scotia confluence
detected at the Weddell Scotia Confluence due to the presence of upwelling of larvae completing their ... developmental ascent. A number of quantitative variables reflect this phenomenon. As the position of the ... Confluence is fixed by the bottom topography interannual variability is geographicaly limited making possible ... to establish a monitoring programme aimed to evaluate the status of adult populations and recruitment ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/20 : Author(s): E. Marschoff, N.S. Alescio, D. Gallotti and G. Donini (Argentina)
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Prohibition of finning of sharks caught in the CAMLR Convention Area
Abstract: Conservation Measure 32-18 on the conservation of sharks prohibits “directed fishing on ... shark species in the Convention Area…” and calls for the live release of incidentally-caught sharks ... where possible. The measure is, however, silent on the practice of shark finning should incidental ... catches of sharks occur. The delegations of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, European Union and USA ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/24 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, the European Union and the USA