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Antarctic fur seal population dynamics update and assessment of census error at SSSI No. 32, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica (2000/2001)
of Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, in the South Shetland Archipelago. Since all censuses ... was developed for assessing uncertainties in the estimates of the counts (inter and intra-observer ... identified and corresponded to beaches in which variation cannot be entirely attributed to inter-observer ... censuses in a considerable way. These factors should all be assessed and taken into account when ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/49 : Autor(es): R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile)
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Seabird by-catch by tuna longline fisheries off southern Africa, 1998–2000
Abstract: The incidental mortality of seabirds in tuna longline fisheries is estimated for the ... bycatch differed regionally in relation to the numbers of birds attending vessels. In international waters ... seabirds are killed annually in South Africa’s EEZ, of which 70% are albatrosses. Confidence in these ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/28 : Autor(es): P.G. Ryan, D.G. Keith and M. Kroese (South Africa)
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Foraging partitioning between giant petrels Macronectes spp. and its relationship with breeding population changes at Bird Island, South Georgia
females in both species. Sex differences agree with previous observations on diet and on attendance at ... may be reduced by the limited overlap in the activity range, with southern giant petrels foraging ... further south than northern giant petrels, suggesting some spatial partitioning in foraging areas. Male ... during the breeding season on fur seals, which have increased exponentially in recent years, may be ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/39 : Autor(es): J. González-Solís, J.P. Croxall and A.G. Wood (United Kingdom)
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EFFECT OF STERN-SETTING TUNNEL ON THE SINK RATE OF INTEGRATED WEIGHT LONGLINE (IWL)
steel tube, built in to the longliner during a dry-dock refit. The tube angles downwards from where the ... line exits the baiting machine, which is positioned in the aft section of the stern setting deck, to ... longlines, conforming to the CCAMLR standard specified in conservation measure 24-02, is planned to be ... tested in a series of sets using time-depth recorders during current sea-trials and approximately three ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/38 : Autor(es): I. Hay and G. Robertson (Australia)
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Net sample validation of acoustic techniques used to identify and size Antarctic krill
species groups has been attempted using differences in echo strength at two acoustic frequencies (ΔMVBS ... ). Here we compare net and acoustic data from 2 cruises around South Georgia in 1996 in order to assess ... echo-charts were also identified as krill on the basis of their difference in backscatter at 38 and 120 ... frequency data and compared with that obtained in net hauls. This comparison revealed that a simplified bent ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/46 : Autor(es): Watkins, J.L., Brierley, A.S.
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Trophic relations of the cephalopod Martialia hyadesi (Teuthoidea: Ommastrephidae) at the Antarctic Polar Front, Scotia Sea
Sea in February 1989. The dissected stomachs of 61 specimens were classified according to fullness and ... items in the squid's diet were the myctophid fishes Krefftichthys anderssoni and Electrona ... squid mantle length. Over the size range of squid in the sample there was no relationship between size ... preference was related to squid size. The prevalence of copepod-feeding myctophids in the diet of this squid ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XI/BG/11 : Autor(es): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Possible effects of different levels of fishing on krill on predators - some initial modelling attempts
Meeting of the CCAMLR's WG-Kril1 and WG-CEMP in 1992 to address this issue. First. estimates are made ... developed, in which krill abundance fluctuations impact the predator population, but not vice versa ... . Computations based on this model indicate that variability in the annual recruitment of krill results in ... predator population dynamics information in the context of the models developed, and about the model1ing of ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/43 : Autor(es): D.S. Butterworth and R.B. Thomson (South Africa)
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The diet of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella during the breeding season at Heard Island
Heard Island fed mainly on fish with an average 95.2% of scats in monthly collections containing fish ... and skate (Bathyraja sp.), the latter being found in over 60%-of scats in October and November. The ... . There the increase is thought to be due to the high availability of krill E. superba, but, in the ... on Heard Island grounds must be considered in this light. Author(s): Delegation of Australia Title ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/53 : Autor(es): Delegation of Australia
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Fish prey of the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans at South Georgia
between years but epipelagic fish were significantly more abundant in +I983 than 1984. All identified fish ... caught in the commercial fishery there. However, two of the three main target species of this fishery in ... fish prey but how they catch several species, including Muraenolepis, which are mainly benthic in habit ... is unknown. Published in: Polar Biology (1998) 8: 000-000 Author(s): J.P. Croxall, A.W. North and ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/05 : Autor(es): J.P. Croxall, A.W. North and P.A. Prince (United Kingdom)
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Annual Report from SCAR to CCAMLR
). SCAR looks to CCAMLR as a key partner in this initiative. Three new potential Scientific Research ... , Thresholds and Resilience (AntETR), State of the Antarctic Ecosystem (AntEco) and Antarctic Climate in the ... /). In particular, the SCAR-MarBIN data portal continues to gather information on marine biodiversity in ... in mutually beneficial ways. For further details see www.scar.org Author(s): Submitted by SCAR Title ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/15 : Autor(es): Submitted by SCAR