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1. CEAMARC, the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census for the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (IPY # 53): An overview

   distribution and abundance of Antarctic marine biodiversity and how it will be affected by climate change. It ... was a major ship-based research programme in the austral summer of 2007e2008 involving scientists from ... comprehensive survey of the plankton, fish, benthos, oceanography and geophysical conditions of the waters north ... of Terre Ade´lie and George V Land of Eastern Antarctica. CEAMARC has provided a robust benchmark of ...

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/P01 : Author(s): G. Hosie, P. Koubbi, M. Riddle, C. Ozouf-Costaz, M. Moteki, M. Fukuchi, N. Ameziane, T. Ishimaru, A. Goffart

2. Diet of two icefish species from the South Shetland Islands and Elephant Island, Champsocephalus gunnari and Chaenocephalus aceratus 2001–2003

   Abstract:  The summer diet of two species of icefishes (Channichthyidae) from the South Shetland ... importance of other taxa (Themisto gaudichaudii, mysids, myctophids) in the diet was negligible. The average ... feeding rate of C. gunnari inferred from an exponential gastric evacuation model was between 1.0 and 1.5 ... % body weight per day. Most of the stomachs of C. aceratus were empty. Stomachs with food contained ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/61 : Author(s): H. Flores, K.-H. Kock, S. Wilhelms (Germany) and C.D. Jones (USA)

3. A brief exploitation of the stone crab Lithodes murrayi (Henderson) off south west Africa, 1979/80

   uneconomic level. The extent of the L. murrayi grounds is examined on the basis of catch-per-unit-effort data ... . The species is largely confined to a bathymetric corridor of 500–700 m off South West Africa. Prior to ... crabs were present in small numbers over a much larger area. Over 90 per cent of the fishing effort was ... applied in this area of high concentration, accounting for almost 95 per cent by mass of the total catch ...

   Meeting Document : WS-CRAB-93/21 : Author(s): R. Melville-Smith (South Africa)

4. Destruction of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems by a rapidly increasing fur seal population

   Abstract:  The terrestrial environment of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic ... past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus ... of seals were present on the island prior to the initiation of commercial hunting in the early 1820s ... . The impact that the continuing increase of these seals had made on the island's terrestrial and ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/06 : Author(s): R.I. Lewis Smith (United Kingdom)

5. The ecosystem approach to managing fisheries: achieving conservation objectives for predators of fished species

   approach for maintaining ecological relationships and providing for the recovery of depleted populations in ... ecosystem, (ii) what should be the conservation objectives for predators of fished species, and (iii) what ... account of uncertainties in knowledge of the structure of ecosystems.  Estimates of production arising ... for management purposes because they integrate across a range of “ecosystem” effects and, as ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/P04 : Author(s): A.J. Constable

6. Review of cetacean depredation in CCAMLR statistical subareas

   Abstract:  Depredation, the removal of fish from longlines by large marine predators, has been ... observed throughout the CCAMLR management area. Loss of fish through depredation can cause financial loss ... assessments through the underestimation of total mortality resulting from fishing and depredation combined. In ... other subareas the problem is known but not currently addressed. The areas in which the establishment of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/27 : Author(s): M. Soeffker (United Kingdom) and P. Tixier (France)

7. Analysis of the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1 considering trawl fishing method used (2010–2016)

   Abstract:  An analysis of spatio-temporal variability of CPUE indices in the krill fishery in ... variability with account of the fishing method used is presented. Particular attention is paid to the fishery ... in the Bransfield strait, where the main fishery in Subarea 48.1 is concentrated  The possibility of ... using the standardized CPUE indices as krill biomass density indices for monitoring the variability of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/27 : Author(s): S. Kasatkina S. and L. Boronina

8. Microbial study of toothfish tissue in Divisions 58.4.1 in 2014/15

   Abstract:  Dissostichus mawsoni, the Antarctic toothfish, is a local organism of the Southern ... Ocean. The fish is a member of the Notothenioidei, which lives in the sub-zero (-2 °C) continental shelf ... waters of Antarctica. The Antarctic toothfish are protected from freezing by the existence of antifreeze ... explore the bacterial population which is present in the tissues of Antarctic toothfish by using both ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/32 : Author(s): Delegation of the Republic of Korea

9. The krill maturity cycle: a conceptual description of the seasonal cycle in Antarctic krill

   Abstract:  A long term study on the maturity cycle of Antarctic krill was conducted in a research ... temperature and food conditions, and the succession of female maturity stages and intermoult periods were ... observed. In all cases regression and re-maturation of external sexual characteristics were observed, but ... there were differences in length of the cycle and intermoult periods between the experimental conditions ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/23 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, T. Yoshida, L. Finley, P. Cramp and S. Nicol (Australia)

10. Preliminary assessment of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) for the Heard Island Plateau region (Division 58.5.2) based on a survey in June 2005

    Abstract:  A survey of Mackerel Icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari,was undertaken in Division 58.5.2 ... in the vicinity of Heard Island in June 2005 to provide the information for an assessment of short ... -term annual yield in the 2005/2006 CCAMLR season. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of yield ... using the assessment methods of CCAMLR. It is proposed that a one-year projection be used in the ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/39 : Author(s): A.J. Constable, T. Lamb and R. Williams (Australia)

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