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1. Apparent decrease of Weddell seal numbers in the western Ross Sea

   imagery during 2008-2012 indicated many fewer Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) at the two major ... Edisto-Moubray as well. The timing of decline, or perhaps spreading (low numbers of seals in more places ... . We analyzed both historic and satellite-derived ice data but found only an expansion of pack ice in ... the larger region and a thinning of fast ice along Victoria Land (conceivably beneficial to seals ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/44 : Author(s): D.G. Ainley, M.A. Larue (USA), I. Stirling (Canada), S. Stammerjohn and D.B. Siniff (USA)

2. Descriptive analysis of haul data from FV Atlantic Navigator in Elephant Islands (48.1), South Georgia Islands (48.3) and South Orkney Islands (48.3) krill fishery (summer 2004 to early winter 2005)

   (early winter 2005) with a total of 251 days of effective fishing. Descriptive study of the fishery ... continuous fishing system with air-bubbling suspension and suction of capture (CFS). Individual haul data ... were analyzed to describe differentialy catch rates (catch per day and catch per minute) of the three ... different fishing zones studied. The total catch registered was 41837 tonnes: 50% of this capture was ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/12 : Author(s): O. Pin, H. Nión, E. Delfino and P. Meneses (Uruguay)

3. Scientific background document in support of the development of a CCAMLR MPA in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) - Version 2015 - Part B: Description of available spatial data

   EMM) the background document that provides the scientific basis for the evaluation of a marine ... protected area (MPA) in the Weddell Sea planning area. The contents and structure of the whole document ... reflect its main objectives, i.e. to set out the general context of the establishment of MPAs and to ... data retrieval process (Part B); to describe the results of the scientific analyses and the MPA ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/39 : Author(s): K. Teschke, H. Pehlke and T. Brey on behalf of the German Weddell Sea MPA (WSMPA) project team, with contributions from the participants at the International Expert Workshop on the WSMPA project (7-9 April 2014, Bremerhaven)

4. Features of spatial and temporally distribution patterns of krill flux in the Scotia Sea: some comments on the development of a krill fishery management in Area 48.

   the influence of geostrophic flux at various space-time scales. The availability of such information ... Abstract:  The spatial variability of krill flux in the Scotia Sea calculated by using the ... distribution of krill density, water flow intensity (m 3 /s) and krill biomass (g/m3) transported by water flow ... to the Scotia Sea, were a subject of study.  It is clearly illustrated that the geostrophic krill ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/21 : Author(s): S. Kasatkina, V. Shnar and A. Malyshko

5. Towards the development of an assessment of stock abundance for Subarea 88.2 SSRUs 88.2C–G

   Abstract:  This paper frames a discussion for improving the assessment of toothfish abundance for ... SSRUs 88.2C–G. We initially provide a characterisation of the fishery and a summary of available tagging ... fish have been recaptured. It is likely that the lack of recaptures of tagged fish in this region has ... been caused primarily by the poor spatial overlap of released tagged fish with subsequent fishing ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/59 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet and S.J. Parker (New Zealand)

6. Global relationships amongst black-browed albatrosses: analysis of population structure using mtDNA and microsatellites

   Abstract:  The population structure of black-browed (Thalassarche melanophris and T. impavida) and ... five island groups in the Southern Ocean. High levels of sequence divergence were found in both taxa ... (T. impavida). T. melanophris from Campbell Island contain birds from each of the three groups ... , indicating high levels of mixture and hybridization. In contrast, grey-headed albatrosses form one globally ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/19 : Author(s): T.M. Burg and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

7. Future work of the Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management and implications for the format of its meetings

   for assembling thesecomponents was developed at the first meeting of WG-EMM and considerable ... distributed predationpressure and randomly determined recruitment. The effects of uncertainty with regard ... fishing pressure are not. However, WG-EMM also maintains amonitoring program that could provide some of ... progresshas been made on a number of contributing initiatives. WG-EMM currently considers awide range of ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/06 : Author(s): Convener WG-EMM

8. Seabird mortality in the artisanal austral hake and Patagonian toothfish longline fisheries in southern Chile

   and petrel populations, particularly at open oceans. However, inside countries’ EEZ artisanal fleets ... of incidental mortality for the artisanal fleets for Austral hake and Patagonian toothfish in ... birds caught during the slow process of hauling. The overall by-catch rate in the Patagonian toothfish ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/54 : Author(s): C.A. Moreno, P. Rubilar, J. Arata, R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile) and G. Robertson (Australia)

9. Revised research plan for the exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in 2015/16 in Division 58.4.1

   block during WG-FSA 2014 using CPUE x seabed analogy method. In the absence of an assessment using the ... CCAMLR decision rules, the catch limit should remain unchanged at 724 tonnes for 2015/16 to maximize the ... expectation of tag-recapture. Author(s):  A. Rélot-Stirnemann (France) Title:  Revised research plan for the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/73 : Author(s): A. Rélot-Stirnemann (France)

10. Revised research plan for the exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in 2015/16 in Division 58.4.2

    WG-FSA 2014 using CPUE x seabed analogy method. In the absence of an assessment using the CCAMLR ... decision rules, the catch limit should remain unchanged at 35 tonnes for 2015/16 to maximize the ... expectation of tag-recapture. Author(s):  A. Rélot-Stirnemann (France) Title:  Revised research plan for the ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/74 : Author(s): A. Rélot-Stirnemann (France)

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