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1. Sampling toothfish from longlines with unequal probabilities

   . Since toothfish are often aggregated on a line, this means that fish within aggregations are sampled ... are often aggregated on a line, this means that fish within aggregations are sampled with less catch effort ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/85 : Author(s): J.R. Ashford (USA)

2. Draft Krill Fishery Report

   summary of information related to the krill fishery in a similar format to the fishery reports that are ... in content to a finfish Fishery Report. The following compilation of information on the krill fishery ... includes a report on krill fishing in the current season and a list of notifications for next season ... completed for finfish fisheries in WG-FSA (www.ccamlr.org/node/75667). The Secretariat agreed to coordinate ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/58 : Author(s): Secretariat

3. Proposal for an acoustic krill biomass survey in CCAMLR Division 58.4.2

   krill in CCAMLR Division 58.4.2 (the South West Indian Ocean Sector) in January-March 2006. The survey ... limit can be established by CCAMLR. The planned survey will utilise a standardised design as adopted in ... previous B0 surveys in the CCAMLR Area and will use a similar methodology for collecting an analysing the ... consist of 15 parallel transects between 30° and 80°E. The survey design is presented to WG-EMM for their ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/37 : Author(s): S. Nicol, S. Kawaguchi, T. Jarvis and T. Pauly (Australia)

4. Potential VMEs around Elephant and the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1)

   in the South Shetland Islands area.  High biomass densities of VME indicator taxa, meeting the 10 kg ... new ‘diversity threshold’ is proposed in order to protect those VME taxa that do not occur in the ... Appendix II listed Antipatharia (black coral), which in the authors’ experience has never occurred at a ... the new diversity threshold, a total of 10 VME areas are proposed, half of which encompass multiple ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/51 : Author(s): S.J. Lockhart (USA), N. Wilson (Australia) and E. Lazo-Wasem (USA)

5. Relative abundance of large whales around South Georgia

   mother-calf pair was observed off the Shag Rocks in February 1997. Extirpation of animals from this ... Abstract:  To assess large whale stocks following the cessation of land-based South Georgia ... particular feeding ground is the most likely reason for ongoing low numbers of all species. Other factors may ... humans, an unusually high rate of natural mortality, habitat change such as alteration in sea ice ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/34 : Author(s): M.J. Moore (USA), S.D. Berrow (UK), B.A. Jensen (USA), P. Carr (UK), R. Sears (Canada) and V.J. Rowntree, R. Payne and P.K. Hamilton (USA)

6. Krill stock evaluation with data from commercial fishing vessels

   ‘Saga Sea’ in 2011 as example. A one-month subset of the acoustic data from February/March was processed ... . The use of such vessels as platforms for survey transects under scientific supervision has already ... board during normal fishing operations in a relatively easy and cheap manner using the Norwegian vessel ... within a time-frame of a week and linked to krill length data from the same period. The data from the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/63 : Author(s): G. Skaret (Norway), J. Moir Clark (United Kingdom), O.R. Godø, R.J. Korneliussen, T. Knutsen, B.A. Krafft and S.A. Iversen

7. Alternative assessment methods for toothfish at South Georgia

   initial lack of early decline, the abrupt decline between 1995 and 1996 and the subsequent increase in ... . The fit of the model to the CPUE series is not good, and there are several unexplained problems. The ... first is that the CPUE in the early 1990s did not decline as would be expected as the resource was ... would be predicted by the model. Thirdly, all models predict a continuing decline, not the increase in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-04/17 : Author(s): Kirkwood, G., Payne, A., Agnew, D.

8. MODELING PREDATION BY TRANSIENT LEOPARD SEALS FOR AN ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT OF SOUTHERN OCEAN FISHERIES

   is important to integrate the predator needs as natural mortality of its prey in models to set prey ... precautionary interpretation in the context of an ecosystem-based management. Author(s):  J. Forcada, D. Malone ... Abstract:  Correctly quantifying the impacts of rare apex marine predators is essential to ... species and their dependent predators. This requires modelling the uncertainty in such processes as ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P08 : Author(s): J. Forcada, D. Malone, J.A. Royle and I.J. Staniland

9. Dietary composition of juvenile Dissostichus eleginoides (Pisces, Nototheniidae) around Shag Rocks and South Georgia, Antarctica.

   Abstract:  A diet analysis of the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides, trawled in the ... by the frequency of occurrence method. Cephalopods and mysids were infrequent in the stomachs, and ... South Georgia Islands area in March–April 1996, was carried out by frequency of occurrence (F%) and ... coefficient ‘‘Q’’ (%) methods. The samples consisted chiefly of immature specimens, with predominant length ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/P6 : Author(s): Casaux, R., Barrera-Oro, E.R., Marschoff, E.R.

10. POTENTIAL PHENOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY AND CHANGE FOR ADÉLIE PENGUINS

    environmental change and have been reported for a range of species around the globe. In Antarctica, there is a ... phenophases of the breeding cycle and describe shifts in Adélie penguin breeding phenology reported at ... clear indication of phenological changes for the Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) with contrasting ... trends in clutch initiation dates reported for populations on opposite sides of Antarctica. Such shifts ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/33 : Author(s): L. Emmerson and C. Southwell (Australia)

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