Australian Antarctic Division - Introducing CCAMLR
prevention of decrease in the size of any harvested population to levels below those which ensure its stable recruitment;
maintenance of the ecological relationships between harvested, dependent and related populations and the restoration of depleted populations; and
prevention of changes or minimisation of the risk of changes in the marine ecosystem which are not potentially reversible over two or three decades.
Subantarctuc fur seal pup(Arctocephalus tropicalis)
Photo: Barbara Wienecke
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