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1. Assessment models for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea region to 2018/19

   in the number of tags recaptures in 2018 and 2019; (ii) two years of additional fishing as the ... (MCMC) diagnostics suggested no evidence of non-convergence in the key biomass parameters. Patterns of ... residuals in the age-frequency proportions suggested some evidence of either strong and weak year class ... (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea region (Subareas 88.1 and SSRUs 88.2A-B) is updated and revised using the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-2019/08 : Author(s): A. Dunn

2. China’s plan for marine investigation and assessment in the East Antarctic sector

   almost 10% of the world ocean, the collection of scientific data and information in support of effective ... field of scientific research in order to extend knowledge of the marine living resources of the ... SC-CAMLR on the marine living resources and the ecosystem in this region, including in the process of ... Abstract:  Given the large scale and hostile condition of the Southern Ocean, which accounts for ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-38/BG/53 : Author(s): Delegation of the People’s Republic of China

3. Notes on Champsocephalus gunnari biology, availability, diet and spatial distribution in the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands (Subareas 48.1 and 48.2)

   Abstract:  Stocks of the mackerel icefish Champsocephalus gunnari in the Southern Scotia arc ... characteristics than stocks in the Northern Scotia Arc. The history of commercial C. gunnari exploitation in the ... Southern Scotia Arc was short lived and intense, and led to the collapse of the stocks. Stocks in this ... Livingston Island. The dietary composition of C. gunnari appears to be more diverse in the South Orkney ...

   Meeting Document : WAMI-01/10 Rev. 1 : Author(s): C.D. Jones and J. Emery (USA)

4. Detecting trends in the krill fishery

   stocks is of limited value in plotting trends in the fishery at its current level. Predictions by Members ... generally available in the Scientific Committee. Technological information may provide early warnings of ... recorded patents. These patents reveal some trends in the development of products using krill. Complete ... Abstract:  The development of the krill fishery can be monitored and predicted using a number of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/25 : Author(s): S. Nicol and J. Foster (Australia)

5. Squalus acanthias – a new species in the Antarctic ichthyofauna (Division 58.5.1)

   Abstract:  Four species of shark have been known to date to occur in the sub-Antarctic waters ... was captured in February 1995 on the shelf of the Kerguelen Islands from the depth of about 195 m and ... duly described. Squalus acanthias is believed to be one of the most widespread shark species in the ... World Ocean. The fact of capturing this species in the Kerguelen waters enlarges by far its range and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/14 : Author(s): Pshenichnov, L.K.

6. Foraging patterns in the Antarctic shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis) at Harmony Point, Antarctica

   reduce the extension of the foraging trips which in years of scarce food availability may no result in ... reducing the daily total time spent foraging due to the marked increment in the number of trips required to ... . The possibility of using the foraging parameters considered in this study in monitoring programmes is ... Abstract:  During the 1995/96 and 1996/97 summer seasons the foraging pattern of the Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/22 : Author(s): R. Casaux and A. Baroni (Argentina)

7. A false positive in the CCAMLR tag overlap statistic arising from low catch volume and consequent limited sample size

   minimum of 60% as specified in CM 41-01. A review of the data indicates that the number of fish tagged was ... of fish tagged did not match closely with that of the catch resulting in a the overlap statistic, as ... where the noise associated with such low numbers of fish triggers false positives in the tag statistic ... Abstract:  The draft CCAMLR compliance report has recorded that when fishing in Subarea 88.2 in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/31 : Author(s): C. Darby (United Kingdom)

8. Pursuit and polynyas in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

   influence biological activity. We pursued daily transition of polynyas in the Ross Sea, Antarctica from 1978 ... polynya existed in the inner area of the Ross Sea in November of the each year. The shape of the polynya ... changed remarkably in several days. The polynyas have the range of approximately 500 km from the bottom to ... the entrance of the Ross Sea. The polynyas usually open to the northern oceanic water late in December ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/31 : Author(s): M. Naganobu, T. Tanaka, Y. Okada, N. Kimura and S. Matsumura (Japan)

9. Seabird mortality in the Japanese tuna longline fishery around Australia, 1988–1995

   ) by Japanese longline vessels targeting tuna. In recent years the estimated rate of seabird bycatch in ... the AFZ has been in the order of 0.15 birds 1000 hooks, translating to mortalities of 1000-3500 birds ... southern Australia. Uncertainties in the observed catch rates prevent confident assessment of trends, but ... time. Sixteen seabird species of birds killed on longlines in the AFZ have been identified. These ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-98/31 : Author(s): N. Brothers, R. Gales and T. Reid (Australia)

10. Has krill fishing the potential to adversely affect recruitment in Antarctic notothenioid fishes?

    by-catch in fisheries targeting krill. The species composition of fish by-catch in krill fisheries is ... 25 years later WG-FSA is still not in the position to estimate the amount of fish by-catch reliably ... and to decide on the significance of the problem. Modelling approaches conducted recently in Norway to ... well-known from Polish investigations in the late 1970s and the 1980s and from Japanese, Ukrainian, and ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/66 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany) and C.D. Jones (USA)

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