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Sounds like more krill
Abstract: Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, comprise the foundation of the food-web in the ... Southern Ocean and are the target of a large fishery. Recently, the total abundance of krill in the Scotia ... tons (CV 11.4%). The new biomass estimate prompted the Antarctic Treaty's Commission for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to revise the precautionary catch level for krill in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/41 : Author(s): D.A. Demer and S.G. Conti (USA)
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CCAMLR-XXVI
Full Name: Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Commission Location: Hobart, Australia Date(s): Monday ... September 2007 Meeting documents Doc Number Title CCAMLR-XXVI/01 Provisional Agenda for the Twenty-sixth ... Meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR-XXVI/02 ... Provisional Annotated Agenda for the Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic ...
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CCAMLR-XV
Full Name: Fifteenth Meeting of the Commission Location: Hobart, Australia Date(s): Monday, 21 ... for the Fifteenth Meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ... CCAMLR-XV/02 Annotated provisional agenda for the Fifteenth Meeting of the Commission for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR-XV/03 Examination of the audited financial statements ...
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1999/2000
juvenile males, the main component of the population at this time of year.The number of sightings ... males, the main component of the population at this time of year.The number of sightings was the lowest ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/03 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Beach debris survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 1998/99
Abstract: The ninth annual beach debris survey was carried out at Signy Island, South Orkney ... Islands during the 1998/99 austral summer. Debris was cleared each month between November and March from ... three study beaches. The debris was counted, measured and classified by type, material, mass and size ... categories. A total of 83 items weighing 12.96 kg was collected. The number of items recovered was the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVIII/BG/7 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Krill population dynamics at South Georgia: implications for ecosystem-based fisheries management
Abstract: The South Georgia region supports a large biomass of krill that is subject to high ... interannual variability. The apparent lack of a locally self-maintaining krill population at South Georgia ... means that understanding the mechanism underlying these observed population characteristics is essential ... to successful ecosystem-based management of krill fishery in the region. Krill acoustic-density data ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P08 : Author(s): K. Reid, J.L. Watkins, E.J. Murphy, P.N. Trathan, S. Fielding and P. Enderlein
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Feedback management through effort regulation
Abstract: The interim distribution of the trigger level in the fishery for Antarctic krill (CM 51 ... -01) will be revised in 2016. The trigger level is not related to the status of the krill stock and ... the predators that depend on it. Progressing the development of an operational FBM system in ... accordance with the Convention has been set as a high priority by CCAMLR. There are currently three FBM ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXV/BG/29 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Norway
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Review of fishery monitoring and forecast procedures
Abstract: The Secretariat monitors the catches of all target and by-catch species (or species ... regression forecast model is used to determine closure dates. Over the past five seasons, the Secretariat has ... closed 68 fishing areas, and the total catches of Dissostichus in areas closed using the forecast model ... averaged 98.5% of the relevant catch limits. The forecast model relies on the assumption that the fishery ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/06 : Author(s): Secretariat
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Using ecosystem monitoring data to detect impacts
to begin at t = 1 and low values of at indicate unfavourable conditions. Hill et al. 200 All ... reference points and reference periods, there is an upward trend in 1.s pn after 1991, and it rapidly ... Paper Title: Using ecosystem monitoring data to detect impacts Abstract / Description: The ... purpose of ecosystem monitoring programs is to indicate the state of ecosystems and whether they have been ... using monitoring data with no control sites. These methods assess either (i) the expected probability of ... an observed value in an unimpacted system, or (ii) the frequency of values below a fixed reference ...
Science Journal Paper : CCAMLR Science, Volume 17 (CCAMLR Science, Volume 17) : 197–212 : Author(s): Hill, S.L., J. Forcada, P.N. Trathan and C.M. Waluda
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CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program (CEMP)
In order to manage the commercial harvesting of Antarctic marine living resources in accordance ... with the ‘ecosystem approach’ that is embodied in Article II of the CAMLR Convention, the effects of ... taken into account. Dependent species are those species that feed on the target species or are impacted ... by the removal of the targets species from the food web. Associated species are typically those that ...
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