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Fishing gear library
(VMEs). This work includes: Members’ preliminary assessments of the potential for proposed bottom ... fishing activities to have significant adverse impacts on VMEs (Conservation Measure 22-06) the estimation ... of the spatial footprint of bottom fishing and the extent to which such fishing activities have ... significant adverse impacts on VMEs the development of management strategies for VMEs (e.g. CCAMLR-XXIX ...
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Proposal to strengthen monitoring and control of transhipments
gaps in the monitoring of transhipments. Currently, most of the transhipments in the Convention Area ... occur between vessels licensed to fish in the Convention Area and vessels of Non-Contracting parties ... (NCPs). The proposed amendments establish a CCAMLR Record of Carrier Vessels, which may include NCP ... vessels, and prohibit a Contracting Party vessel from transhipping inside the Convention Area with a ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXV/24 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia and the USA
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Towards an ecological risk assessment of krill fishing in East Antarctica (CCAMLR Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2)
Abstract: With the recommencement of commercial krill (Euphausia superba) fishing in CCAMLR ... Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2, off the coast of East Antarctica, Australia is adapting the risk assessment ... framework used in Area 48 to assess the risks involved in any redevelopment of a krill fishery and evaluate ... whether the current management procedure has a high likelihood of achieving CCAMLR’s objectives in this ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/20 : Author(s): N. Kelly, M. Cox, L. Emmerson, S. Kawaguchi, B. Raymond, C. Southwell and D. Welsford
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Observer notes (Subarea 88.1)
bottom long-line sets in Subarea 88.1 from 15.12.03 till 10.03.04 are presented. For the first time ... Antarctic toothfish was found in long-line catches above seamounts of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge to the ... cannot lead to their intbreeding as its gonads were at the early development stages in that period ... . Antarctic toothfish spawning takes place above the mountains of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, located ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/89 : Author(s): V.G. Prutko (Ukraine)
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Fish and invertebrate by-catch from Australian fisheries for D. eleginoides and C. gunnari in Division 58.5.2
Islands in CCAMLR Statistical Division 58.5.2. These comprise a trawl and a longline fishery for the ... gunnari. This paper presents available by-catch information for the three fisheries including estimates of ... . Preliminary results from a rajid tagging program are also presented. Total removals of by-catch in the trawl ... caught in the D. eleginoides trawl fishery and 107 tonnes in the C. gunnari trawl fishery. These values ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/73 : Author(s): E.M. van Wijk and R. Williams (Australia)
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Marine debris, entanglements and hydrocarbon soiling at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, Signy Island, South Orkneys and Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula, 2010/11
Island, South Orkneys for the period April 2010 to March 2011. Surveys were also undertaken at Goudier ... hydrocarbon soiling at this location during the reporting period. Surveys of beached marine debris at Bird ... summer 2010/11 (January to March 2011). Plastic was the most commonly observed item during the two ... seasons at Bird Island, and the majority of items collected at Signy Island were wood/lumber ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXX/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Uncertainty in echosounder calibrations
Abstract: Calibration of echo sounders for fish stock assessment are commonly performed using the ... standard sphere method (Johannesson and Mitson, 1983; Simmonds et al., 1984). To determine the accuracy of ... the method, direct measurements of target strength (TS) were made of three standard spheres (Copper ... (Cu)- 23.0 mm and tungsten carbide (WC)- 33.0 mm and 38.1 mm). At the best case range of 5 m, the TS ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/40 : Author(s): Soule, M.A., Demer, D.A.
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Towards a strategic framework for assessing uncertainty in ecosystem dynamics models: objectives are sensitive too
candidate feedback management approaches for the Antarctic krill fishery in the southern Drake Passage and ... Scotia Sea. The Foosa ecosystem dynamics model was developed to perform spatially resolved, stochastic ... simulations of krill, its predators and fishery. It has been used to provide advice on the spatial allocation ... of the precautionary catch limit for krill. Foosa might therefore be a suitable simulation platform ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/20 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Hill and J. Matthews (United Kingdom)
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Mitigation of Macrourus by-catch in research block 58.4.1_6 and estimation of Macrourus biomass and sustainable catch in Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2
Abstract: Macrourus spp. are the major by-catch species in the exploratory toothfish fishery in ... ) avoidance, ii) mitigation and iii) the setting of sustainable by-catch limits if mortality is not ... preventable (SC-CAMLR-XXII, paragraph 5.230). Here, we undertake a risk assessment of the effects of ... block 58.4.1_6 in particular. We investigate the distribution of D. mawsoni and Macrourus spp. catch ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/23 : Author(s): D. Maschette, P. Burch, P. Yates and P. Ziegler
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Norwegian Cruise to Kong Håkons VII Hav 28 February – 10 April 2019
Abstract: Norwegian Polar Institute led a cruise to the Kong Håkons VII Hav 28th February-10 ... April 2019. Our focus area was the ocean south of 65°S east of 0° meridian and 13.5° E (Fig 1) with a ... focus on Astrid ridge. Our focus was to map and describe the whole ecosystem. During transit, we ... identification. The ROV transects made up the basis of our intensive study areas. Each intensive study area ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/48 : Author(s): H. Steen