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Atlas of coastal sea ice in eastern Antarctica
Abstract: The attached document provides information on an atlas of sea ice produced by the n. It ... vicinity of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program sites at Bechervaise Island near the Australian Station ... of Mawson, at Edmonson Point in the vicinity of the Italian Station of Terra Nova Bay and at Ross ... Island. The atlas is scheduled for release in August 2002. Here we provide a sample only of the contents ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/54 : Autor(es): K. Michael, K. Hill, K. Kerry and H. Brolsma (Australia)
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Population dynamics of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at sub-Antarctic Marion Island: longline fishing and environmental influences
Abstract: The Prince Edward Islands support the largest breeding population of the vulnerable ... Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans. The number of birds breeding in this population has fluctuated over ... the past three decades and appears to be the result of both real changes in the size of the population ... and changes in the proportion of the population that attempts to breed in a given year. We describe ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/16 : Autor(es): D.C. Nel, P.G. Ryan and J. Cooper (South Africa)
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The influence of environmental variables and mitigation measures on seabird catch rates in the Japanese tuna longline fishery within the Australian Fishing Zone, 1991–1995
Abstract: Long term fisheries observer data were used to analyse the influence of a range of ... environmental variables and mitigation measures upon catch rates of seabirds in the Japanese pelagic longline ... were set during summer, in southern areas of the zone, and during daylight hours. However ... , interpretation of changes in catch rates resulting from the use of mitigation measures or from weather effects ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-98/32 : Autor(es): N. Brothers, R. Gales and T. Reid (Australia)
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Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1996/97
Abstract: The results of the first annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy ... Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 1996/97 season. Neck collars of man-made debris were ... seen on 12 seals, all of which were juvenile males. Five entangled seals were observed in an area ... around Signy Island Research Station where approximately 1.3% of the fur seal population come ashore. It ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVI/BG/07 : Autor(es): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Fish and squid in the diet of king penguin chicks, Aptenodytes patagonicus, during winter at sub-Antarctic Crozet Islands
Abstract: The diet of king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, rearing chicks was studied during ... of the 47 samples was 503 g. Percentages of wet and reconstituted masses showed that both fishes (66 ... and 36%, respectively) and squid (34 and 64%) are important components of the winter diet. Juveniles ... of the demersal onychoteuthid squid M oroteuthis ingens form the bulk of the cephalopod diet, and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/09 : Autor(es): Cherel, Y., Ridoux, V., Rodhouse, P.G.
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The fish diet of black-browed albatross Diomedea melanophrys and grey-headed albatross D. chrysostoma at South Georgia
Abstract: The fish component of the diet of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses at South ... 1986 and 1994. Fish represented 30% and 72% by mass of the diet of black-browed albatrosses and 14% and ... 60% by mass of the diet of grey-headed albatrosses in 1986 and 1994 respectively. We determined the ... identity and quantified the contribution (by numbers, size and mass) of fish species mainly by using ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/11 : Autor(es): Reid, K., Prince, P.A., Croxall, J.P.
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An evaluation of reduced target strength estimates reported for krill (Euphausia superba)
on the same experiment and report new calculations of the target strength of krill (Euphausia superba ... ) that propose questioning previous measurements of krill target strength and estimates of abundance ... assumptions made in calculating target strength. Whether the results of these papers are valid is critically ... important, given that they are being cited as a basis for increasing the estimates of krill standing stock ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-90/13 : Autor(es): M.C. Macaulay (USA)
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Distribution, abundance and acoustic properties of Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum) in the Ross Sea
community of top predators in the shelf waters of the Ross Sea. In spite of their abundance and important ... role in Antarctic food chains, very little is known of many ecological and biological aspects of this ... species. A combined trawl and acoustic survey of silverfish was carried out on the western Ross Sea shelf ... during the New Zealand International Polar Year Census of Antarctic Marine Life research voyage on R.V ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/P04 : Autor(es): R.L. O’Driscoll, G.J. Macaulay, S. Gauthier, M. Pinkerton and S. Hanchet
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The annual random stratified trawl survey to estimate the abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari in the Heard Island region (Division 58.5.2) for 2012
Abstract: The annual random stratified trawl survey at HIMI was completed in March to May of 2012 ... Ridge, Plateau Southeast and Plateau West, and in a repeat of the hauls in Ground B. Catches in this ... high as the long term average (2006-2011). The catches of Dissostichus eleginoides for 2012 were twice ... those of 2011 and about one and a half times higher than the long-term average. Champsocephalus gunnari ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/25 : Autor(es): G.B. Nowara and T. Lamb (Australia)
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A characterisation of the toothfish fishery in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 from 1997/98 to 2011/12
Subarea 88.1 and for 10 years in Subarea 88.2. This report summarises the timing, depth, and location of ... fishing together with the catch of Dissostichus spp. and bycatch species by year for the period 1997–98 to ... 2011–12. During the 2011–12 fishing year most of the catch in Subarea 88.1 came from the slope SSRU ... 88.1K. About 70% of the catch in the north was taken from 88.1C, and about 85% of the catch on the shelf ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/42 : Autor(es): M.L. Stevenson ,S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)