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1. A proposal for a standardised survey for Antarctic toothfish in McMurdo Sound

   mammalian predators in the area. Age composition, physiology, and diet objectives can be met with the ... methodology for a standardised hook and line survey were trialled in McMurdo Sound. Data collected will be ... integrated with ongoing collaborative research programmes to determine the importance of toothfish to ... current design. However, power analysis based on historical catch data suggests that the sample size ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/33 : Author(s): S.J. Parker, S.M. Hanchet and S. Mormede (New Zealand)

2. Ross Sea Biodiversity, Part I: validation of the 2007 CCAMLR Bioregionalisation Workshop results towards including the Ross Sea in a representative network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean

   meeting of CCAMLR's Scientific Committee and the Environmental Protocol's Committee ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/11 : Author(s): D.G. Ainley, G. Ballard and J. Weller (USA)

3. Habitat preferences of Adélie and chinstrap penguins during pre-moult

   pre-moult had low predictive power. This indicates that predictive models may be insufficient to ... variation in their current distribution. With this in mind, we used Platform Terminal Transmitter (PTT ... phase of the annual cycle. We show that Adélie penguins have an affinity to forage and moult on sea-ice ... , and that chinstraps remain over the shallower shelf waters during pre-moult, and return to the colony ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/P12 : Author(s): V. Warwick-Evans, M. Santos and P.N. Trathan

4. Changes in population size of large Procellariiformes breeding in the French sub-Antarctic islands: potential influence of southern fisheries and particularly long lining

   indicate that most albatross and giant petrel populations have markedly declined. Demographic studies ... indicate that these declines are mainly the result of increased adult mortality. This high rate of ... mortality has been suspected to be the result of mortality incurred in long-line fisheries. Satellite ... tracking studies of breeding birds and band recoveries of non breeding birds indicate that during and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/11 : Author(s): Henri Weimerskirch and Pierre Jouventin (France)

5. Abundance and richness of key Antarctic seafloor fauna correlates with modelled food availability

   Abstract:  Most seafloor communities at depths below the photosynthesis zone rely on food that ... Antarctica where ecological data are sparse. Here we show that the strength of pelagic–benthic coupling along ... chlorophyll-a, a regional ocean model and diatom abundances from sediment grabs with particle tracking and ... show that fluctuating seabed currents are crucial in the redistribution of surface productivity at the ...

   Meeting Document : WS-SM-18/P01 : Author(s): J. Jansen, N.A. Hill, P.K. Dunstan, J. McKinlay, M.D. Sumner, A.L. Post, M.P. Eléaume, L.K. Armand, J.P. Warncock, B.K. Galton-Fenzi and C.R. Johnson

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

   feature of identifying the values, including utility, of the RSMPA will be to ensure that activities do ... 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 ... , and (iii) can be modified as the state of knowledge improves. In addition, the utility of the RSMPA ...

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

7. Developing conceptual models of the Antarctic marine ecosystem: squid

   describes properties for three groups of squid that may be included in future ecosystem models of the ... Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM). While recognised to be an important component of this ecosystem ... , particularly with regard to food-web structure and function, squid have rarely been included in previous ... and vertical migrations). Furthermore, this paper reiterates findings from previous studies that squid ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/26 : Author(s): K. Phillips (Australia)

8. Report of the 1995/96 Japanese Whale Research Programme Under Special Permit in the Antarctic (JARPA) in Area IV and eastern part of Area III

   different from that observed during the 1993/94 JARPA. In the previous research, high density was observed ... the ice edge in the research area. It is supposed that concentration of pregnant female in the Prydz ... second survey. It seems that the most of female minke whale in the Prydz bay tend to migrate through in ... from the blue and right whales, respectively. Author(s):  Yuzu, S., Ishikawa, H., Mogoe, T., Kawasaki ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/48 : Author(s): Yuzu, S., Ishikawa, H., Mogoe, T., Kawasaki, M., Hishii, T., Shimamoto, K., Tohyama, D., Nibe, H., Taguchi, F., Hidaka, H., Ono, K., Yamashiro, K., Yoshida, T., Tamura, T., Nishiwaki, S.

9. A proposal for streamlining the work of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

   for CCAMLR fisheries. It is proposed that the working groups of the Scientific Committee be revised to ... develop a work program that does not require all issues to be addressed every year. The Working Groups are ... Abstract:  The work of the Scientific Committee is expanding with a duplication of many functions ... streamline the work, help reduce the number of groups and time needing to be attended by our experts and to ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/30 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia

10. INTERACTIONS OF PATAGONIAN TOOTHFISH FISHERIES WITH KILLER AND SPERM WHALES IN CROZET EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE: AN ASSESSMENT OF DEPREDATION LEVELS AND INSIGHTS ON POSSIBLE MITIGATION SOLUTIONS

    data revealed that among the 97 killer whales interacting with the fishery, however 35 individuals ... represents a financial loss of approximately 10 millions €. Killer whales were found to be responsible for ... belonging to four different pods were involved in 81.3% of the interaction events. We also estimated that a ... total of 64 sperm whales interacted with the fishery on the Crozet EEZ in 2008. Significant variations ...

    Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-09/12 : Author(s): P. Tixier, N. Gasco, G. Duhamel and C. Guinet (France)

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