Résultats de la recherche
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Reconciling fisheries with conservation: three examples from the Southern Ocean
uncertainty in the analysis of risk of exceeding defined management criteria. Each fishery, however, presents ... relies on frequent surveys and short-term population projections because of high variability in natural ... projections and has demonstrated success in addressing incidental mortality of seabirds, large-scale ... misreporting of catches threatens to compromise the viability of the fishery. These concerns are discussed in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/48 : Auteur(s): R.P. Hewitt (USA), I. Everson (United Kingdom) and C.D. Jones (USA)
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Operational interactions between cetaceans and the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) industrial fishery off Southern Chile
(Dissostichus eleginoides) fishery were assessed in southern Chile through 7 surveys with observers on board ... industrial vessels between April 2002 and March 2003. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) occurred in ... higher frequency than any other species during fishing operations. In 60% of all monitored sets sperm ... whales were present, while orcas (Orcinus orca) were found in only 10% of these. When cetaceans were ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/95 : Auteur(s): R. Hucke-Gaete, C.A. Moreno and J.A. Arata (Chile)
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Beach debris survey – Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 2002
increase of 59% by number and 97% by mass since 2000/01). There was an increase in the number of plastic ... packaging bands (eight) from the total recorded the previous season (1), a change in what has otherwise been ... a declining trend since 1993/94. Plastic waste was predominant, as in previous seasons, making up71 ... of waste recorded at Signy Island has shown a reverse in what has otherwise been a declining trend ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/05 : Auteur(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom
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Spatial distribution of foraging by female Antarctic fur seals
gradients in the oceans and also by the need to avoid local competition for food. It also tested the ... hypothesis that fur seal predation was capable of causing local depletion of prey species. When foraging in ... sites followed the same pattern of travel. There was no detectable difference in this behavior among ... krill. This suggested that, in extreme cases and assuming that krill influx is limited, female fur seals ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/26 : Auteur(s): I.L. Boyd, I.J. Staniland and A.R. Martin (United Kingdom)
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Interannual variations of water thermochaline structure on South Georgia Island, South Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands shelves
characteristics, T,S diagrams' typification has been realized for hydrological stations carried out in the ... area of South Orkney Isls and Shetland Isls in January-February since 1970. Three types of years have ... intermediate cold layer. In some years of this type (1 97 1, 1972, 1978, 1982) the layer had positive ... temperature, while in other years (1980, 1981) the layer temperature was negative. The second year type (1979 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/34 : Auteur(s): P. Chernyshkov, V. Shnar, O. Berezhinsky and I. Polischuk (Russia)
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Decline of Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) population at SSSI No. 32, South Shetlands, Antarctica, during 1997/98: a discussion of possible causes
also lower than last year. We hipothesize that large scale fluctuations in physical oceanographic ... be changing krill abundance and distribution, in turn affecting local predator reproductive ... following split season (1998/99), a further decrease in pup production, lower weights in pups, and ... considerable decrease in total population due to emigration to better foraging areas. Author(s): R. Hucke ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/17 : Auteur(s): R. Hucke-Gaete, D. Torres, A. Aguayo and V. Vallejos (Chile)
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FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS (HIMI) BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES: A GUIDE FOR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS ABOARD FISHING VESSELS
specific reference material for the identification of benthic invertebrates in areas specific to which ... observer identifications and also to assist in the identification of vulnerable areas, the Scientific ... : paragraph 4.190). In response to this recommendation Australia has developed the ‘Field identification guide ... of invertebrate by-catch when operating in the HIMI region. The Australian Antarctic Division has now ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/BG/12 : Auteur(s): Delegation of Australia
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A history of the exploitation of the Ross Sea, Antarctica
be the least affected stretch of ocean on Earth, although historical effects were not included in the ... by New Zealand to feed sled dogs in the 1950-80s caused the McMurdo Sound population to permanently ... population has since recovered. Some minke whales are now taken in “scientific whaling”, twice more from the ... occurred in slope waters, and therefore their demise from whaling does not apply to the Ross Sea. No ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P03 : Auteur(s): D.G. Ainley
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INGESTION OF FISHING GEAR AND ENTANGLEMENTS OF SEABIRDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT
legislation prohibits discarding of gear (hooks and line) in offal, and compliance is often unknown. Analysis ... of a 16 year dataset collected at Bird Island indicated that the amount of gear found in association ... with wandering albatross colonies was an order of magnitude greater than in any other species ... higher in giant petrels and wandering albatross than black-browed albatross, and no grey-headed albatross ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-09/10 : Auteur(s): R.A. Phillips, C. Ridley, N. Harrison (United Kindom), K. Reid (Secretariat), G.N. Tuck (Australia) and P.J.A. Pugh (United Kingdom)
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FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLAND (HIMI) BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES
specific reference material for the identification of benthic invertebrates in areas specific to which ... observer identifications and also to assist in the identification of vulnerable areas, the Scientific ... : paragraph 4.190). In response to this recommendation Australia has developed the “Field identification guide ... by-catch when operating in the HIMI region. Based on available data, this publication will include ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/59 : Auteur(s): T. Hibberd and K. Moore (Australia)