Résultats de la recherche
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Methodological aspects of the International Synoptic Krill Survey in Area 48, 2019
Abstract: The effect of differences in the methodology used for the CCAMLR 2000 krill acoustic ... survey and the 2019 synoptic survey were considered. These were 1) the effect of acoustic surveying at ... effect of krill discrimination method. Surveying during the day only produced a 6% increase in the ... distributions. The choice of krill discrimination method had a marked effect on the per-stratum biomass ...
Meeting Document : SG-ASAM-2019/10 : Auteur(s): G. Macaulay, G. Skaret, T. Knutsen and B. Krafft
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Intra-annual variability in the abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) at South Georgia, 2002–2005: within-year variation provides a new framework for interpreting previous ‘annual’ krill density estimates
kHz) were deployed on moorings on- and off-shelf to the northwest of South Georgia to measure ... abundance of Antarctic krill continuously between 14 October 2002 and 29 December 2005. A distinct seasonal ... explained 71% of the observed week-week variation. Mooring estimates of krill abundance were not ... South Georgian western core box region between 1990 and 2005. Comparison of these ‘snap-shot’ ship ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/25 : Auteur(s): R.A. Saunders, J.L. Watkins, K. Reid, E.J. Murphy, P. Enderlein, D.G. Bone and A.S. Brierley (United Kingdom)
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Review of CCAMLR activities on monitoring marine debris in the Convention Area
Abstract: The current status of national surveys on monitoring of marine debris and their impact ... until recently. The number of debris items found has increased in the last season reported at Bird ... Island (2004), Signy Island (2005) and King George Island (2005). The majority of items found were ... packaging materials. The level of marine debris found in Grey-headed albatross, Black-browed albatross and ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/13 : Auteur(s): Secretariat
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An assessment of toothfish in Subarea 48.3 using CASAL
Abstract: The CASAL software has been successfully applied to an assessment of the stock of ... , with an extensive range of sensitivity tests and examination of diagnostics. A baseline assessment ... 45,893 t, and the spawning stock biomass was estimated to be 120,360 t, around 67% of its unexploited ... 49,943 t, and the spawning stock biomass was estimated to be 100657 t, some 64% of its unexploited level ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/16 : Auteur(s): R.M. Hillary, G.P. Kirkwood and D.J. Agnew (United Kingdom)
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Demography and population trends of the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
of breeding birds was strongly correlated between the two islands, and over the whole study period ... both study populations have trended downward at around 1.2% per year. The number of established ... breeders on Gough Island has declined more rapidly, and significantly, at an annual rate of 2.3 ... %. Monitoring established breeders maybe a sensitive means of detecting population trends. Average breeding ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/37 : Auteur(s): R. Cuthbert (United Kingdom), P.G. Ryan, J. Cooper (South Africa) and G. Hilton (United Kingdom)
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Using production models to assess the stock of Paralomis spinosissima around South Georgia Island
Abstract: Four production models were fit to a time series of daily catch per unit effort (CPUE ... recruitment function. The best fitting model was Model 1. Model 1 had three parameters: an estimate of initial ... abundance (N0), an estimate of the scaling coefficient relating abundance to CPUE (q), and a recruitment ... removals should not be greater than the number of crabs that recruit to the fishery during the course of a ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-93/23 : Auteur(s): George Watters (USA)
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Blue-eyed shags as indicators of changes in ittora fish populations
Abstract: The use of Shag’s pellets as an appropriate technique to monitor the abundance of ... littoral fish populations is presented for consideration of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program Working ... Group. The effectiveness of the method is based on the very good agreement found between the fish ... species identified by the examinations of otoliths present in regurgitated cast and those regularly ...
Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/25 Rev. 1 : Auteur(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina)
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Target strength of Antarctic krill
Abstract: In-situ measurements of individual krill target strength are presented (modal value ... reproductively mature and averaged 47.44mm in length. Results agree well with recent predictions of acoustic ... target strength based on extrapolations of other field experiments using the bent cylinder model of sound ... scattering by elongated zooplankters. The modal value of the measurements is 6.7dB lower than that predicted ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/13 : Auteur(s): R.P. Hewitt and D.A. Demer (USA)
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Ingestion of anthropogenic articles by seabirds at Macquarie Island
regurgitations and the stomachs of seabirds at Macquarie Island; these were ingested both at sea and on land ... . Eight percent of regurgitated casts from Macquarie Island Cormorants contained polystyrene beads ... . Plastic particles were recorded from the stomachs of Southern Giant Petrels, Subantarctic Skuas, and Kelp ... Gulls. Birds examined in 1988 had a higher frequency of occurrence of foreign objects than birds ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-VIII/BG/12 : Auteur(s): D.J. Slip, K. Green and E. Woehler (Australia)
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Modelling and Decision Making as Part of the CCAMLR Management Regime
environment essential for the effective management of the Antarctic marine ecosystem within the requirements ... of CCAMLR Article II. Eight attributes (purpose, description, variables, driving forces, time ... development of suitable simulations of important Antarctic marine ecosystem interactions and to facilitate the ... formulation of a suitable decision-making protocol for management purposes. Author(s): D.G.M. Miller (South ...
Meeting Document : WG-CSD-88/10 : Auteur(s): D.G.M. Miller (South Africa)