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1. Commercial fishing in the Ross Sea

   currently exist in the Ross Sea. It also highlights some of the findings of Ross Sea independent research ... Abstract:  COLTO members have been fishing for toothfish in the Ross Sea for the past 15 years ... . The New Zealand Seafood Industry Council, representing NZ toothfish operators in COLTO, have prepared ... operations in the Ross Sea region.    The information sheet provides basic data on Antarctic Toothfish ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXI/BG/35 : Author(s): Submitted by COLTO

2. Antarctic fur seals in the South Shetland Islands: pup production and population trends

   Abstract:  Discovered in 1819, the South Shetland Islands soon became the focus of intensive ... censuses over a 15yr period (1987, 1992, 1994, and 1996) indicates the rate of increase in fur seal ... reports the results of a ground survey of all known fur seal colonies from Smith to Elephant Islands from ... %) and San Telmo Islands (21%). Dead pups accounted for 1.37% of the total. A comparison with previous ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/51 : Author(s): M.E. Goebel (USA), V.I. Vallejos (Chile), W.Z. Trivelpiece, R.S. Holt (USA) and J. Acevedo (Chile)

3. REPORT ON THE ABANDONED GILLNET RETRIEVAL OPERATION CONDUCTED BY AUSTRALIA IN CCAMLR STATISTICAL DIVISION 58.4.3B (BANZARE BANK)

   gillnets as a fishing method to target toothfish in the Convention area. Estimating the impact of IUU ... . Based on the amount of toothfish found in the 8 km long section of net retrieved, upwards of 29 tonnes ... gillnets. However these figures are likely to be underestimates of total mortality in gillnets, due to the ... evidence of large numbers of sea-lice depredated fish in the net. Author(s):  Snowdon, D., Hamill, J ...

   Meeting Document : TASO-09/10 : Author(s): Snowdon, D., Hamill, J., McEachan, F., Welsford, D.

4. Connectivity and population structure in Pleuragramma antarcticum along the west Antarctic Peninsula

   , reduction in sea-ice along the WAP may lead to extinction of local populations through drastic mortality of ... populations at 1) the north tip of the Peninsula, and 2) the southern WAP encompassing Charcot Island and ... Marguerite Bay, with no mixing between. The presence of a single length mode at Charcot Island and Marguerite ... recruitment since 2001. The collapse in silverfish abundances previously found off Anvers and Renaud Islands ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/16 : Author(s): J. Ashford, J. Ferguson, A. Piñones, J. Torres and W. Fraser

5. Potential modelling structures for a two-area stock assessment model for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Amundsen Sea Region

   in 2014/15 are expected to better inform the assessment of the entire stock including SSRUs 88.2C–G ... once additional age and tag data have been collected in SSRUs 88.2C–H as part of the two-year research ... Abstract:  Two-area population models for Antarctic toothfish in the Amundsen Sea Region were ... developed further as current single area models did not fully explain the patterns in the observed data on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/49 : Author(s): S. Mormede, S.J. Parker, A. Dunn and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)

6. Using acoustic echo counting to estimate grenadier abundance in the Ross Sea (SSRU88.1I)

   targets was similar to that predicted based on the expected size range of grenadiers. Variability in ... vessels in SSRU 88.1I. The next step will be to apply to these methods to a wider set of data across the ... Abstract:  Grenadiers (Macrourus spp.) are the main bycatch species in the exploratory longline ... fishery for toothfish in the Ross Sea. Previous studies concluded that acoustics methods could be used to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/62 : Author(s): Y. Ladroit, R.L. O’Driscoll and S. Mormede (New Zealand)

7. Report on Dissostichus mawsoni exploratory fishery research in East Antarctica (Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2) between the 2011/12 and 2017/18 fishing seasons

   provides a summary of responses to the recommendations with references to the associated outputs in this ... statistics at the scale of the research block (Figure 1) and the distribution of tags recaptured in research ... block 5841_2 in 2017/18 (Figure 2) Progress toward the case-control estimation of effective tagging ... the toothfish exploratory fishery in Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 between 2011/12 and 2017/18. Table 1 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/58 Rev. 1 : Author(s): P. Yates and P. Ziegler

8. Towards an initial operational management procedure for the krill fishery in Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3

   , this increase may be suspended or reversed in any year depending on how many of the previous three year ... requires a basis for the assessment of resource status, and an algorithm for specifying the levels of ... regulatory mechanisms (e.g. a catch control law) that depends on the results of the assessment. Developing ... and selecting a procedure requires a basis for the simulation testing of procedures, and an ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/17 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa

9. Mitigation trials and recommendations to reduce seabird mortality in the pelagic icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) fishery (Subarea 48.3)

   idea of binding the net with sisal string on shooting, in order to prevent it opening until it had sunk ... discontinued. In addition other ideas were considered and reviewed. These included reducing the size of the ... mitigation methods in an attempt to reduce seabird mortality caused by entanglement with the net and to ... beneath the sea surface, and thereby reduce the chance of seabirds becoming entangled, while attempting to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/59 : Author(s): J.O. Roe (United Kingdom)

10. Upward adjustments to local catch limits for the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1

    the gSSMUs defined in another compilation of vignettes (AERD 2016a, pp. 3-13).  We propose upward ... greater than one. We advocate real-life testing of the ideas proposed here to prove the concept; in ... adjustments to local catch limits for the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1.  We use the term local catch limit to ... refer to a catch limit that applies to a group of SSMUs (gSSMU), and the work presented here is based on ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/47 : Author(s): Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center and NOAA Fisheries

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