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1. A PRELIMINARY BALANCED TROPHIC MODEL OF THE ECOSYSTEM OF THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA, WITH EMPHASIS ON APEX PREDATORS

   of the lower trophic level species in the model are grouped by functional role because information is ... parameter uncertainty and the large range of magnitude (>6 orders of magnitude) in trophic flows between ... Abstract:  We report on the development of a mass balanced carbon-budget trophic model of the Ross ... Sea as a step towards investigating ecosystem effects of the fishery for Antarctic toothfish ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/42 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, J.M. Bradford-Grieve and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)

2. The importance of standardising and validating new methods for CEMP to maintain the robustness of long-term time series

   series and is an important consideration for the inclusion of new methods in the CEMP. We briefly ... standardising new methods against current methods is critical to maintain the robustness of long-term time ... summarise aspects of recently published work on a number of new methods applied to Adélie penguins in East ... Antarctic to illustrate the importance of standardisation and validation. It is important that new methods ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/44 : Author(s): C. Southwell and L. Emmerson (Australia)

3. An overview of the elasmobranch fish of the Southern Ocean

   Abstract:  This review summarises current knowledge of the elasmobranch fish occurring in the ... Lamna nasus. Although other squaliform sharks are thought to occur in the area, the taxonomic status of ... Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters of the CCAMLR area. About 14–15 species of elasmobranch have been ... recorded, with skates (Rajiformes) the most speciose order. Two genera of skates are known (Amblyraja and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/28 : Author(s): J.R. Ellis, S.R. McCully, V.V. Laptikhovsky and R. Scott (United Kingdom)

4. Approaches to the simplification of the summary and presentation of CEMP data

   relies on the evaluation of statistical anomalies in the CEMP database. A new approach based on the ... Abstract:  The current approach to providing advice on the status of the krill-centric ecosystem ... ordination of variables according to functional groupings is suggested. This approach uses the methodology ... data to summarise the variability in CEMP parameters. Author(s):  K. Reid (United Kingdom) and G ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/61 : Author(s): K. Reid (United Kingdom) and G. Watters (USA)

5. Subdivision of large CCAMLR Statistical Areas for the management of the krill fishery

   Abstract:  In this paper the boundaries of the CCAMLR statistical areas are examined for their ... kept intact wherever possible. The resultant map of suggested management areas results in a series of ... relevance to the management of the krill fishery. A rationale for developing some new areas is developed ... based on data on krill distributions. The overall aim of the exercise was to reduce the large size of ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/24 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia

6. ON METHODS OF THE EXPERIMENT CARRIED OUT TO DETERMINE THE RATE OF ‘ESCAPE MORTALITY’ ON FISHING OR RESEARCH VESSELS DURING ANTARCTIC KRILL FISHERY

   (SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/3, paragraph 3.7), 2009 in Bergen, due to the results of considering Document WG-EMM ... -09/11, in which the uncertainty of krill amount perished while its trawling at fishery is focused ... , the recommendations were submitted on carrying out the experiment to determine the rate of krill ... Ukraine Title:  ON METHODS OF THE EXPERIMENT CARRIED OUT TO DETERMINE THE RATE OF ‘ESCAPE MORTALITY’ ON ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/BG/10 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine

7. Standing stock, biology, diet and spatial distribution of demersal finfish from the 2003 US AMLR bottom trawl survey of the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1)

   relative to all other species, there appears to be a decline in biomass. The overall abundance of finfish ... bottom trawl surveys of the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1) during the 1998, 2001, and 2003 austral ... important feeding areas lie to the west and north of Elephant Island and to the north of King George Island ... . The standing stock for most species has fluctuated, with no signal of substantial year classes or ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/38 : Author(s): C.D. Jones (USA), K.-H. Kock, (Germany), J. Ashford, A. DeVries, K. Dietrich (USA), S. Hanchet (New Zealand), T. Near, T. Turk (USA) and S. Wilhelms (Germany)

8. Aspects of the ecology of the bigeye grenadier at South Georgia

   Abstract:  Aspects of the ecology of the Bigeye grenadier, Macrourus holotrachys caught as bycatch ... in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery conducted around South Georgia were investigated. Age ... over 30 years and attaining lengths in excess of 80cm (Lt). Von Bertalanffy growth parameters were ... estimated for females and closely matched those of the congeneic species M. berglax from the Northern ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/16 : Author(s): S.A. Morley, T. Mulvey, J. Dickson and M. Belchier (United Kingdom)

9. An evaluation of the performance of the CCAMLR mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) harvest control rule as applied within CCAMLR Subarea 48.3

   Abstract:  A retrospective analysis and sensitivity evaluation of the performance of the CCAMLR ... harvest control rule for the mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) in Subarea 48.3 are described. The ... review indicates that the approach is providing consistent, precautionary estimates of future biomass and ... levels of exploitation that are considered precautionary and would conform to the ecosystem approach by ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/31 Rev. 1 : Author(s): C. Darby, T. Earl and H. Peat (United Kingdom)

10. Report of an examination of the acoustic data from RV Eduardo L. Holmberg collected during the FIBEX study

    into the BIOMASS Database in the approved standardised format. The results indicate the krill were ... concentrated to the western end of the South Orkney Islands. Density values are consistent with those from ... :  Report of an examination of the acoustic data from RV Eduardo L. Holmberg collected during the FIBEX ... Abstract:  Data from the Eduardo L Holmberg FIBEX survey have been re-examined for incorporation ...

    Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/20 : Author(s): I. Everson (United Kingdom) and A.O. Madirolas (Argentina)

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