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CCAMLR Strengthens Marine Conservation in Antarctica
Antarctica Special Meeting for the Establishment of MPAs in Antarctica The Commission for the Conservation of ... , resulting in new measures strengthening marine conservation in the Southern Ocean. Main outcomes of CCAMLR’s ... previously been carried out. The data-poor areas, where strictly limited exploratory fishing for toothfish is ... permitted, are situated in the southern Indian Ocean and South Atlantic sectors. Extensive research plans ...
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CCAMLR Strengthens Marine Conservation in Antarctica
Antarctica Special Meeting for the Establishment of MPAs in Antarctica The Commission for the Conservation of ... , resulting in new measures strengthening marine conservation in the Southern Ocean. Main outcomes of CCAMLR’s ... previously been carried out. The data-poor areas, where strictly limited exploratory fishing for toothfish is ... permitted, are situated in the southern Indian Ocean and South Atlantic sectors. Extensive research plans ...
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CCAMLR Strengthens Marine Conservation in Antarctica
Antarctica Special Meeting for the Establishment of MPAs in Antarctica The Commission for the Conservation of ... , resulting in new measures strengthening marine conservation in the Southern Ocean. Main outcomes of CCAMLR’s ... previously been carried out. The data-poor areas, where strictly limited exploratory fishing for toothfish is ... permitted, are situated in the southern Indian Ocean and South Atlantic sectors. Extensive research plans ...
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Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (WG-FSA)
At its second meeting, in 1983, the Scientific Committee agreed that the starting point for ... discussions on fish stock assessment should be to consider the report of the second meeting of the BIOMASS ... , in 1984, based on the findings of the BIOMASS report and other information on the status of fish ... stocks in the Antarctic, the Scientific Committee agreed to the following terms of reference for the ad ...
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Statistical problems in krill stock hydroacoustic assessments
range of a penguin, personal communication John Bengtson). The point is that if we can begin to isolate ... : Two primary issues are at question for hydroacoustic assessments of krill. The first is the methods ... applied to establish biomass in a survey area and the second is the improvement in accuracy of target ... -strength measurements. In the case of statistical methods, there are no clear guidelines for deciding what ... method is most appropriate, this is made even more difficult by the fact that most survey methods assume ...
Science Journal Paper : Selected Scientific Papers, SC-CAMLR-SSP/5 – Part I (Selected Scientific Papers, SC-CAMLR-SSP/5 – Part I) : 301–309 : Author(s): Macaulay, M.C.
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Assessments of by-catch in trawl fisheries at Heard and MacDonald Islands
Abstract: This paper provides an assessment of the long-term annual yield for three species ... caught as by-catch in the commercial trawl fisheries in the Heard Island area (Statistical SubArea 58.5.2 ... undertaken with the aim of examining the potential for the commercial trawl fisheries to significantly affect ... the spawning biomass of these stocks in the longer term. The long-term annual yield for each of the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/30 : Author(s): de la Mare, W.K., Williams, R., Constable, A.
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Defining smaller management areas within CCAMLR
Abstract: This paper discusses the principles required to develop of small-scale management units ... and highlights a work program in this development. It provides the theoretical foundation for ... considering the scales of management units involving the integration of local populations of harvested species ... , foraging areas of predators, fishing grounds and the potential influences of the environment, including ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/52 : Author(s): A.J. Constable and S. Nicol (Australia)
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Science
Science is fundamental to CCAMLR. The Convention itself was born out of the concern of scientists ... that, following unsustainable harvesting of fish in the sub-Antarctic during the late 1960s and mid ... -1970s, the emergence of interest in the large-scale exploitation of Antarctic krill may have drastic ... ecosystem consequences. In 1975, the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties (ATCPs) noted the need to focus ...
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Draft Revised Management Plan for ASPA 149, Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands
intersessional contact group formed during the 2004 meeting of the CEP/ATCM. Since a marine area is included in ... the plan, approval is required by CCAMLR. It should be noted that this area is also a CEMP site ... (Conservation Measure 91-02 (2000)). The draft management plan for ASPA 149 was prepared in accordance with the ... provisions of Annex V to the Environmental Protocol and consistent with the Guide to the Preparation of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/8 : Author(s): Delegations of Chile and USA
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Microbial study of toothfish tissue in Divisions 58.4.1 in 2014/15
Abstract: Dissostichus mawsoni, the Antarctic toothfish, is a local organism of the Southern ... Ocean. The fish is a member of the Notothenioidei, which lives in the sub-zero (-2 °C) continental shelf ... waters of Antarctica. The Antarctic toothfish are protected from freezing by the existence of antifreeze ... proteins in the tissue, which inhibit the ice making in the body fluids. In this project, we set a goal to ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/32 : Author(s): Delegation of the Republic of Korea