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1. Managing fisheries to conserve the Antarctic marine ecosystem: practical implementation of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

   Abstract:  Apart from exploitation of seals and whales, Antarctic fisheries began in the late ... 1960s with exploitation of the marbled rockcod, Notothenia rossii, in the South Atlantic, a species ... decimated in the first two years of the fishery following catches of about 500,000t. Two other species have ... formed the basis of substantial fisheries, krill (Euphausia superba) and mackerel icefish ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVIII/BG/26

2. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM OF INSPECTION AND OTHER CCAMLR COMPLIANCE-RELATED MEASURES IN 2009/10

   Abstract:  IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM OF INSPECTION AND OTHER CCAMLR COMPLIANCE-RELATED MEASURES ... IN 2009/10 INTRODUCTION This paper summarises information on the implementation of the System of ... on the implementation of conservation measures related to fisheries management and the submission of ... data has been provided in CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/9, although details of some compliance-related aspects of ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/07 : Author(s): Secretariat

3. Investigations of krill transport factors in the local areas in the Scotia Sea: variability of krill distribution in the fishing grounds under the transport impact

   Abstract:  The authors look «inside» SSMU by the example of SOW (South Orkney West) and SGW (South ... Georgia West), analysing variability of krill transport and distribution characteristics in the local ... areas of these SSMUs. The data of the Russian repeated acoustic survey accompanied by trawl and CTD ... samples form the basis of this work. It is shown that the multiple replacements of the water masses in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/17 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina and V.N. Shnar (Russia)

4. Elaborating a representative system of marine protected areas in eastern Antarctica, south of 60°S

   Abstract:  The plan of implementation for Agenda 21 of the United Nations World Summit on ... Sustainable Development (2002) requires an estate of marine protected areas for the purposes of long‐term ... conservation of marine biodiversity by 2012. A representative system of marine protected areas (RSMPA) will be ... one that (i) provides a spatial estate of the smallest area sufficient to satisfy the principles of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/26 : Author(s): A.J. Constable, B. Raymond, S. Doust, D. Welsford and K. Martin-Smith (Australia)

5. Revised estimates of yield for Electrona carlsbergi based on a generalised version of the CCAMLR krill yield model

   Abstract:  Traditional methods for estimating yield per recruit as a function of fishing mortality ... can result in inappropriate high estimates of yield that could lead to depletion of stocks because of ... widely varying recruitment patterns, overestimation of the abundance of the stock and age of the most ... probabilities of the stock of Electrona carlsbergi becoming depleted over a 20 year period. These projections ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-94/21 : Author(s): A.J. Constable and W.K. de la Mare (Australia)

6. Considerations on the design and evaluation of surveys for estimating recruitment of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) with preliminary outcomes for the Heard Island plateau region (Division 58.5.2)

   Abstract:  Assessments of long-term sustainable yield using the Generalised Yield Model and the ... setting of total allowable catches (TAC) for Patagonian Toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides, for the Heard ... design for Division 58.5.2 is reviewed and estimates of optimal distribution of trawl stations among ... strata provided for estimates of abundance of individual pre-recruitment age classes and total abundance ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-04/19 : Author(s): Candy, S., Constable, A.J., Davies, C.R.

7. Model-based mapping of assemblages for ecology and conservation management: A case study of demersal fish on the Kerguelen Plateau

   of Common Profile (RCP) to quantify and map the distribution of demersal fish assemblages in an ... ecologically significant region of the Southern Ocean to a) gain ecological and management insights and b ... ) evaluate the utility of the new method for ecoregionalisation. The RCP approach is a multi-species, model ... -based approach that can overcome many limitations of traditional distance-based approaches.  It ...

   Meeting Document : WS-SM-18/P02 : Author(s): N.A. Hill, S.D. Foster, G. Duhamel, D. Welsford, P. Koubbi and C.R. Johnson

8. Krill of the Ross Sea: distribution, abundance and demography of Euphausia superba and Euphausia crystallorophias during the Italian Antarctic expedition (January–February 2000)

   ) were analysed to obtain a general picture of the summer distribution pattern, abundance and demography ... of krill in the western Ross Sea (Antarctica). A midwater sampler-trawl (Hamburg Plankton Net) was ... used to collect zooplankton and fish larvae. Mean relative biomass of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba ... , in the area north of Continental Shelf, was 9.3 g/1000m3 of filtered water with a mean density of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/32 Text : Author(s): A. Sala, M. Azzali and A. Russo (Italy)

9. Modelling the consequences of Antarctic krill harvesting of Antarctic fur seals

   Abstract:  In terms of the convention governing the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic ... should take the needs of the predators of krill into account in order to reduce the risk of deleterious ... an annual krill catch limit, which is expressed as a proportion (??= 0.116) of a survey biomass ... estimate. This approach takes the needs of predators into account in only a crude way by assuming that a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/66 : Author(s): R.B. Thomson, D.S. Butterworth (South Africa), I.L. Boyd and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

10. CCAMLR spatial management GIS: potential applications for informing the development of a representative system of MPAs

    GIS facilitates easy mapping of CCAMLR’s spatial management framework and associated conservation ... measures, and standardises this information in terms of projection and coastline position. Access to ... spatially derived parameters through the database may be useful in the design and implementation of ... protected areas as part of the development of a representative system of Antarctic marine protected areas ...

    Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/20 : Author(s): S.M. Grant, S.L. Hill and P.T. Fretwell (UK)

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