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1. Marine debris: a persistent and emerging threat to antarctic ecosystems

   Abstract:  CCAMLR has had success in tackling marine debris from local sources in the Southern ... Ocean; however it remains a persistent threat. Current understanding of the distribution and impacts of ... evidence suggests that microplastic concentrations in the Southern Ocean are higher than previously thought ... , and that they are from local and international sources. Knowledge of the impacts of debris ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/29 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

2. Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 1998/99

   of 310. Nylon line, identical to that attached to longline gear, accounted for 51 % of items.The lower ... line, identical to that attached to longline gear, accounted for 51 % of items.The lower levels ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

3. An inter-laboratory comparison of ages estimated for Dissostichus eleginoides using otoliths

   , otoliths were taken from 100 fish caught in the South Atlantic, and transverse sections prepared by baking ... , then grinding from the anterior and posterior sides of the otolith. Ages were estimated from the ... otoliths by one reader from the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology at Old Dominion University and ... one reader from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, without auxiliary ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/56 : Author(s): J. Ashford (United Kingdom) and P. Horn (New Zealand)

4. Fishing behaviour of Chinese krill fishing fleet

   Abstract:  Understanding the fishing behavior of a kind of fishery is a very important part of ... developing and managing this fishery comprehensively. In this paper, based on the random walk model, the ... relationship between distance and frequency distribution of the adjacent krill fishing positions were analyzed ... in the subareas of the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/45 : Author(s): R. Wang and G.P. Zhu

5. Report on bottom fisheries and vulnerable marine ecosystems: draft template and workplan

   Abstract:  The WG-FSA Subgroup on VMEs was tasked with providing a draft template of a Report on ... the workplan and discussion. It has been compiled by the Subgroup for consideration at WG-EMM in 2010 ... . The structure aims to follow the logic of the fishery reports already provided by WG-FSA: (i) Status ... of the fisheries, (ii) Knowledge on the fish stocks, (iii) Methods, (iv) Assessments of status and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/15 : Author(s): WG-FSA Subgroup on VMEs

6. A method for inferring movement rates of fish from mark–recapture data

   Abstract:  This paper presents methods to infer the rate of movement of fish that are marked ... , released, and subsequently captured. The information that is available is the location and date of the ... release and the recapture. In addition, the intensity of fishing effort (i.e. sampling) by location and ... time is known. The simplest approach is to make a frequency plot of the distance between each release ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/66 : Author(s): C. Wilcox (Australia)

7. Longline sink rates on a bottom autoline vessel in New Zealand: draft

   vessel F.V. San Aotea in New Zealand. The objective of the project was to determine line sink rate, and ... the effect that adding weights to the line had on its sink rate. The vessel used Mustad autoline ... as would be used in normal fishing operations to test the effectiveness of weighting the longline as ... rapid attachment method for Time Depth Recorders was also developed and is documented. The study found ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-98/51 : Author(s): N.W. McL. Smith (New Zealand)

8. WG-KRILL-93

   -KRILL-93/01 Provisional Agenda and Annotation to Provisional Agenda for the Fifth Meeting of the Working ... . Stanton (USA) WG-KRILL-93/07 An assessment of the impact of krill fishery on penguins in the South ... Shetlands T. Ichii, M. Naganobu and T. Ogishima (Japan) WG-KRILL-93/08 Status of the krill stock around ... catches of krill in Area 48 reported to CCAMLR for the 1991/92 fishing season Secretariat WG-KRILL-93/10 ...

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9. SC-CAMLR-XIX

   Full Name:  Nineteenth Meeting of the Scientific Committee Location:  Hobart, Australia Date(s ... Provisional Agenda for the Nineteenth Meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic ... Marine Living Resources SC-CAMLR-XIX/02 Provisional Annotated Agenda for the Nineteenth Meeting of the ... Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources SC-CAMLR-XIX/03 Report of the ...

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10. Longline sink rates of an autoline vessel, and notes on seabird interactions

    autoline fishing vessel working the New Zealand ling (Genypterus blacodes) longline fishery on the Chatham ... Rise, New Zealand during July and August 1998. The autoline equipment is designed to sink without ... . Further trials were conducted with weights added to the longline as in normal fishing operations. A robust ... attachment method for Time Depth Recorders was developed. A tori line was used at all times by the vessel ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/44 : Author(s): N.W.McL. Smith (New Zealand)

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