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BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY AND INCIDENCE OF ENTANGLEMENT OF ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA AT SIGNY ISLAND, SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS 2007/2008
Abstract: This report details the twelfth annual survey of the incidence of entanglements of ... Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella and eighteenth beach survey of man-made debris at Signy Island ... of 56 items weighing 11 kg, representing an increase from 2006/07 of 11% (by number) and 33% (by mass ... ). There was a decrease in the number of plastic packaging bands with only two found in the current season ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/26 : Autor(es): M.J. Dunn and C.M. Waluda (UK)
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Temporal scales of foraging in a marine predator: implications for interpreting the distribution of prey
Abstract: The pattern of prey distribution can profoundly affect the foraging behavior and ... success of a predator. In pelagic marine ecosystems, where prey is often patchily distributed, predators ... must be able to adapt quickly to changes in the spatial patterning of prey. Antarctic fur seals feed ... indication of the distance between patches. The frequency distribution of intervals between bouts of foraging ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/23 : Autor(es): Boyd, I.L.
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Validation of age determination in Notothenia coriiceps, by means of a tag-recapture experiment at potter cover, South Shetland Islands
Abstract: Of 409 Notothenia coriiceps specimens tagged and released at Potter Cove, South ... of 11-21 months. A comparison was carried out between the annuli found in scales removed before and ... after the period of liberty. In scales of those specimens recovered after 11-13 months, one extra ... closely spaced sclerites zones, which corresponded with an elapse of two winter seasons. The comparative ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-94/12 : Autor(es): E.R. Barrera-Oro and R.J. Casaux (Argentina)
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Further calculations of the effects of krill fishing on predators
random component in the relationship between krill biomass and availability. An examination of the ... consequences in the case of the blackbrowed albatross suggest that these other factors result in yet lesser ... resilience of the albatross population to the effects of a krill fishery. An approach for estimating the ... parameters of functional relationships between survival rates and krill biomass (or availability) is ...
Meeting Document : WG-Krill-94/24 : Autor(es): D.S. Butterworth and R.B. Thomson (South Africa)
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Estimation of the biomass of krill in Prydz Bay during January/February 1991 and February/March 1992 using echo integration
Abstract: Hydroacoustic surveys of the abundance of krill (Euphausia superba) in the Prydz Bay ... association of krill with the shelf break in the western part of the survey area but also found that the shelf ... break was in general not a region of relatively high krill abundance. The mean surface density of krill ... estimates of 1.95, 3.45 and 1.78 g/m2 for statistical areas 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3 (SC-CAMLR 1991, p47) but ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/23 : Autor(es): I. Higginbottom and T. Pauly (Australia)
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By-catch of juvenile Champsocephalus gunnari in krill fishery on the shelf of South Georgia Island
Abstract: AtlantNIRO had conducted in 1982-1990 a series of juvenile fish trawl surveys of ... abundant species around South Georgia Is. Results of these survey were summarised and compared with ... published data. Juveniles of Champsocephalus gunnari were found to be distributed from the surface to 500 m ... depth with a maximum density observed at depth between 100 and 200 m. High catches of C. gunnari ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-92/06 : Autor(es): G.A. Frolkina, V.I. Latogursky, V.A. Sushin (Russian Federation)
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A brief outline of the biology of the Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum Boulenger, 1902 (Nototheniidae) from the Antarctic Indian Ocean
Abstract: The Antarctic silver fish (Pleuragramma antarcticum) is one of the most numerous ... species in the outer waters of Antarctica. In the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean there are at least ... there are macro aggregations of plankton, while fish aged from 3+ to 12+ years form near-bottom, pelagic ... when they reach 13-16 cm in length and 4-6 years of age. Males reach maturity at 12-18 cm in length and ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-92/11 Rev. 1 : Autor(es): V.V. Gerasimchuk (Ukraine)
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Preliminary results of an age/length study of juvenile Notothenia rossii marmorata from Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands
Abstract: Whole otoliths and scales were used for a simultaneous age determination of juvenile ... Islands. Results from the analysis of both structures agreed in 95.5%. Likewise, the examination of ... otolith cross sections of chosen specimens confirmed in all the cases the age readings obtained from the ... second whole sagittal otolith. First October instead of the commonly accepted 1 July, was taken as the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-90/09 : Autor(es): E. Barrera-Oro and R. Casaux (Argentina)
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Network characterisation of the food-web of the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Abstract: A balanced ecosystem model is used to explore the system-level characteristics of the ... food-web of the Ross Sea shelf and slope before the advent of commercial fishing for Antarctic ... toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the region. We evaluate: (1) biomass and flow of organic matter by ... food-web structure and function at the spatial, temporal and ecological scale of the ecosystem model ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/53 : Autor(es): M.H. Pinkerton and J.M. Bradford-Grieve (New Zealand)
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Results of scientific observation in Antarctic krill fishery in 2010/11: I. state of observer deployment and data collection
of krill observation scheme. This paper summarizes the status of observer deployment, sampling ... Abstract: We analyzed the 2010/11 krill observer data to confirm the outcome of recent revisions ... , the coverage of krill biological sampling for hauls and the number of krill sampled for biological ... current state of data collection, mere extension of the observer coverage may not result in the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/65 : Autor(es): M. Kiyota and T. Okuda (Japan)