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Mercury concentrations in Patagonian toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt 1898, among three distinct ocean basins
across the range examined. However, fish were significantly smaller within the Atlantic basin (mean=84.52 ... cm; 5.57 kg; n=142) than the Pacific (99.07 cm; 9.12 kg; n=15) and Indian (102.72 cm; 14.0 kg; n=29 ... size across the range examined and was less for Atlantic basin fish) mean=0.23 ppm) than either Pacific ... (0.73 ppm) or Indian basin (0.80 ppm) fish, which did not differ. The Pacific and Indian basin fish had ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/24 : Author(s): K. Dawson Guynn and M.S. Peterson (USA)
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Defining predator foraging ranges, illustrated using Adélie penguin foraging tracks from Mawson coast
Abstract: One step toward defining small-scale management units is to determine the areas most ... likely to be foraged by predators from one year to the next, i.e. what is a predator’s feeding range ... taking into account interannual variation in foraging locations? This paper considers the issues to be ... addressed in answering that question. The proposed method for defining foraging ranges is based on an ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/41 : Author(s): I.R. Ball, A.J. Constable, J. Clarke and L. Emmerson (Australia)
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Beach litter survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 1993/94
Abstract: A beach litter survey was carried out on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands during the ... 1993/94 austral summer. Similar surveys were carried out during the 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93 ... from any scientific research stations in the South Orkney Islands. The beach litter surveys carried out ... in 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93 showed a drop in both the weight of debris and the total number of ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XIII/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Proposal for a longline survey on toothfish in Statistical Subarea 48.6 in 2017/18
Abstract: Norway proposes a plan to investigate the toothfish populations in the Statistical ... and acoustic techniques. The proposed research is pertinent to issues raised by the Scientific ... characterise the local toothfish populations in the area to better understand stock structure, movement ... patterns and improve estimation of population characteristics and thereby contribute to the development of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/61 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Norway
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Net monitoring on Norwegian krill fishing vessels, recent trials, and a proposal for amendment to CM 25-03 to accommodate cabled communication between net sensors and vessel
Abstract: Net monitoring during krill trawling is necessary to the industry and beneficial to ... trawl sensors. Norwegian krill vessels conducting continuous trawling use a cabled connection where the ... implemented on the FV Saga Sea because extensive trials carried out in 2017/18 with other alternatives were ... this particular rigging is compatible with the main objectives of CM 25-03, i.e. minimizing the ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/18 : Author(s): O.A. Bergstad
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Polar Code Phase 2 and next steps for Southern Ocean vessel management
Abstract: This paper provides an update on the progress at the International Maritime ... Organization (IMO) on the timetabling and development of a second phase of work on the International Code for ... vessels, pleasure craft, small cargo vessels). It leads to recommendations on the engagement of CCAMLR and ... CCAMLR Members in the work at the IMO and also identifies actions to be undertaken ahead of completion of ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/BG/26 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC
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SC-CAMLR-VI
Full Name: Sixth Meeting of the Scientific Committee Location: Hobart, Australia Date(s ... Provisional Agenda for the Sixth Meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine ... Living Resources SC-CAMLR-VI/02 Annotation to the Provisional Agenda of the Sixth Meeting of the ... Scientific Committee Executive Secretary SC-CAMLR-VI/03 Report of the ad hoc Working Group on Fish Stock ...
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Measurement of ocean temperatures using instruments carried by Antarctic fur seals
Abstract: The study aimed to test the utility of instruments deployed on marine mammals for ... measuring physical oceanographic variation and, using this method, to examine temperature variation in the ... recorders (TDRs) fitted to lactating Antarctic fur seals foraging from the coast of South Georgia ... temperature measured by TDRs in the top 5 m and sea surface temperature (SST) measured by satellite remote ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/56 : Author(s): I.L. Boyd, E.J. Hawker, M.A. Brandon and I.J. Staniland (United Kingdom)
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OCEAN-BOTTOM KRILL SEX
Abstract: For the first time the entire sequence of the mating behaviour of Antarctic krill ... (Euphausia superba) in the wild is captured on underwater video. This footage also provides evidence that ... mating can take place near the seafloor at depths of 400–700 m. This observation challenges the generally ... accepted concept of the pelagic lifestyle of krill. The mating behaviour observed most closely resembles ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/P7 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, R. Kilpatrick, L. Roberts, R.A. King and S. Nicol
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Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area: Reporting, Periodic Review and Period of Designation Elements
Abstract: This paper describes the following elements associated with the proposal for a Marine ... Protected Area in the Ross Sea Region (CCAMLR-XXXIV-29): a possible procedure for reporting on research and ... monitoring activities within the proposed Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (RSRMPA); how the Commission ... might review the extent to which the objectives of the RSRMPA are still relevant and are being achieved ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/39 : Author(s): Delegations of the USA and New Zealand