SC-CAMLR-XIX

CCAMLR’s Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management wasestablished to provide management advice to the Scientific Committee based on anecosystem assessment. Currently, management advice is provided by a yield model,which assumes a freely distributed krill population, homogeneously distributed predationpressure and randomly determined recruitment. The effects of uncertainty with Read More
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This paper provides the background essential to an informed evaluation of the financial and other consequences attached to various schedules and locations for the holding of meetings of the Working Group for Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM). It is concluded that the holding of WG-EMM meetings in Hobart will only result in relatively minor financial savings (A$347-613) per Member Read More
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Results of the survey of entanglements of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South Georgia for thetenth consecutive winter (1999) and twelfth consecutive summer (19999/2000) are reported here. Only six entangled seals were observed during the winter, representing a 53% decrease from1998 and a 94% decrease on the highest previous total (1992). Four of these animals wereentangled in plastic Read More
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The results of the fourth annual survey of entanglement of Antarctic fur seals at Signy Island,South Orkney Islands are reported for the 1999/2000 summer season. There were five sightingsof seals wearing neck collars of man-made debris. One additional sighting was of an animal that had been previously entangled but had lost its collar by the time of observation. All of the animals involved Read More
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This report describes and quantifies occurrences of oil, marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia. In this, the seventh year of standardised recording, an unprecedented quantity of hooks (both with and without long-line attached) and monofilament long-line originating from fishing vessels was recorded in association with wandering albatrosses. Read More
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The ninth year of surveys of beach man-made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia revealed a total of 213 items, 51% less than the total of 430 items in 1997/98 and the second lowest total noted. The winter (April - September) total was 66 % lower than in 1997/98 and is the lowest total since 1990. The number of items collected in the summer was 172, a decrease of 45% from the 1997/98 total of Read More
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During the 1999/2000 austral summer the tenth annual beach debris survey was carried out at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. Debris was cleared each month between November andMarch from three study beaches. The debris was counted, measured and classified by type,material, mass and size categories. A total of 55 items weighing 10.78kg was collected. The number of items was 35% less than 1998 Read More
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Finfishing started in the Southern Ocean more than 30 years ago at South Georgia and Iles Kerguelen. The fishery extended further south for a few years in the second half of the 1970's. However, South Georgia and the Kerguelen Islands remained the most important fishing grounds until 1996/97 when the longline fisheries for Dissostichus eleginoides spread over most of the Southern Ocean within Read More
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This paper provides a summary of the highlights of the FAO sponsored consultation on illegal. unreported and unregulated (IUV) fishing. A Draft International Plan of Action on IUU Fishing was prepared and this will be discussed at a Technical Consultation on IUU Fishing in Rome between 2-6 October 2000.

This report outlines the participation of the SC-CAMLR Chair in the Third Meeting of Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP-III) under the Madrid Protocol. The most important issues of relevance to CCAMLR are:
(a) CCAMLR has been requested to table a report at the next CEP meeting on marine debris, especially in relation to compliance with Protocol Annex IV;
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El Uruguay ha desarrollado un Programa de Relevamiento de Desechos Marinosen las áreas costeras próximas a sus instalaciones en el Area del Tratado Antártico y por tanto en el Area de la Convención correspondiente a la Subárea Estadística 48.1,en la B.C.A.A. (Base Científica Antártica Artigas), en Isla Rey Jorge (o Isla 25 deMayo) y en la E.C.A.R.E. (Estación Científica Antártica Teniente de Read More
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