Résultats de la recherche
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Estimating the abundance of pack-ice seals off east Antarctica
Abstract: A survey was undertaken to provide estimates of the abundance of crabeater, Ross and ... helicopters to estimate the density of seals hauled out on the ice in survey strips. The probability of ... -linked dive recorders were deployed on a sample of seals to estimate the probability of seals being ... hauled out on the ice at any time of day. Due to non-random placement of survey transects, model-based ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/23 : Auteur(s): C. Southwell (Australia), D. Borchers, C. Paxton (United Kingdom), B. de la Mare (Canada), P. Boveng (USA), A.S. Blix and E.S. Nordoy (Norway)
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Changes observed in krill length frequency distribution during repeated sampling on the South Georgia shelf in 2000 January–February
on 22 February and 3 February correspondingly. The comparative analysis revealed the strong ... difference in krill inhabiting Northwest and Northeast South Georgian waters. According to the data available ... the difference do not disappear in time, instead certain increase of krill length was observed in both ... parts. The data analyzed confirm that krill on the Northern South Georgian shelf has different origin ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/40 : Auteur(s): V.A. Sushin and F.F. Litvinov (Russia)
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Designing Marine Protected Area networks: insights from the CHARM3 project
Action 12 of the CHARM3 project, which focuses on spatial conservation planning in the English Channel ... . The first analysis investigates the use of species area curves for setting marine habitat targets and ... shows this approach is sensitive to sample size and the type of species richness estimator. Thus, there ... targets are objective and scientifically defensible. The second analysis combines the Marxan and MinPatch ...
Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/22 : Auteur(s): R.J. Smith and K. Metcalfe (UK)
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PROPOSED APPROACH FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF IMPORTANT MARINE AREAS FOR CONSERVATION: USING ‘MARXAN’ SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT SYSTEMATIC CONSERVATION PLANNING
the pelagic environment, using Subarea 48.2 (South Orkney Islands) as a pilot study area. The aim of ... the worked example is not to identify areas for protection or management at this stage, but rather to ... test the utility of this methodology, and to demonstrate the types of data and the range of decisions ... ; Game & Grantham, 2008) is used to objectively determine the possible contribution of individual ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/49 : Auteur(s): S.M. Grant, J. Tratalos and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)
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FISHING ACTIVITY AND SEABIRD-VESSEL ATTENDANCE NEAR THE NORTHERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA
Abstract: We conducted a survey to investigate the factors influencing the number of seabirds ... attending a research vessel during scientific trawling activities near the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Our ... fishing activity. Counts of seabirds attending the vessel were made during non-fishing periods, net ... seabird attendance. Three species, the Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophrys, Cape Petrel ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/11 : Auteur(s): Jarrod A. Santora and Kimberly S. Dietrich (USA) and Darci Lombard (Canada)
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THE AUSTRALIAN SKATE TAGGING PROGRAM AT HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS, CCAMLR DIVISION 58.5.2
Abstract: Tagging of the three species of skates taken as by-catch in the Heard Island and ... McDonald Islands toothfish fishery, Bathyraja eatonii, B. irrasa and B. murrayi has taken place over the ... last eight years with nearly 6,000 skates tagged. The recapture rate has been low, less than one ... were released. The mean distance between release and recapture was 4.8 nautical miles, even though the ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/55 : Auteur(s): G.B. Nowara and T. Lamb (Australia)
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Diet and prey consumption of Antarctic petrels Thalassoica antarctica at Svarthamaren, Dronning Maud Land and at sea outside the colony
Abstract: The diet of the Antarctic petrel Thalassoica antarctica was studied during two years at ... Svarthamaren, an inland colony situated in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica and in the pack-ice outside ... Svarthamaren. The analyses showed that the most important food (wet weight) at Svarthamaren was Crustaceans (68 ... %), followed by fish (29%) and squid (3%), whereas individuals collected in the pack ice took mostly fish (95 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/58 : Auteur(s): Røv, N., Lorentsen, S., Klages, N.
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Numerical model of ecosystem including Euphausia superba Dana as a key species in the Antarctic Ocean
Abstract: On the processes to investigate a proper model for understanding the processes that ... govern the biochemical cycle in Antarctic Ocean, we made a research plan as follows: (1) to develop an ... ecology (4) to develop a numerical model to couple the OGCM and ecosystem models (5) to develop a ... numerical model including the effect of marine mammal consumption and catch of krill (6) to develop the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/52 : Auteur(s): Naganobu, M., Kishi, M.J.
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Distribution of salps near the South Shetland Islands during austral summer, 1990/1991 with special reference to krill distribution
investigated near the South Shetland Islands during austral summer 1990-1991. Salp biomass ranged between 0 and ... 556 mgC•m-3 and was greatest at a station in the Bransfield Strait in late December 1990. Salp biomass ... found, and the former was dominant numerically. Spatial distribution and generation composition of these ... so the January-February period. While E. superba was found mainly in the coastal area which showed ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/54 : Auteur(s): Terazaki, M., Ichii, T., Kawaguchi, K., Nishikawa, J., Ishii, H., Naganobu, M.
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Diagnostic model of functioning of Antarctic krill population in the Cooperation Sea
mathematical modelling of Antarctic krill population in the Cooperation Sea. The choice of investigation area ... , its stocks, other pelagic system components, inhabitancy conditions, landing by FVs for the period ... from 1978 to 1984 and 1988. The objective of the researches was to reveal causes of sharp fluctuations ... in krill abundance in the Cooperation Sea basing on mathematical modelling. The main task was to ...
Meeting Document : WG-Joint-94/07 : Auteur(s): V. Belyaev and M. Khudoshina (Ukraine)