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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. Marine debris and entanglements at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, Signy Island, South Orkneys and Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula 2016/17

   the long-term mean at both Bird Island and Goudier Island but below the mean at Signy Island. The incidence ... of marine mammal entanglements was below the long-term mean at all sites surveyed. Debris associated ... with seabird colonies was above the mean level for wandering albatrosses and grey-headed albatrosses, but below ... the mean for black-browed albatrosses and giant petrels. Author(s):  C. Waluda Title:  Marine debris ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/35 : Author(s): C. Waluda

3. Characterising catch and effort from data-poor toothfish fisheries in CCAMLR Divisions 58.4.3 – 58.4.4

   Bank) accumulated the highest proportion of allocated effort in which a total of 948 sets (52\%) were ... not been completed in most of the recent fishing seasons. Soaking time showed high variability and no ... to fishing logbooks recorded in the exploratory fisheries carried out between July 2000 and March ... 2012. During this period, a total of 9 countries registered fishing operations in which 1811 sets were ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/41 : Author(s): J.C. Quiroz, R. Wiff (Chile) and P. Martinez (Argentina)

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Fishing for toothfish using pots: results of trials undertaken around South Georgia, March–May 2000

    Conservation Measure 64/XII. According to this protocol, fishing was to be conducted over as wide an area ... line 128 1.28 kg/ ot, 128 k per 5 km line 2 788 0.35 kg/Eook, 830&g per 5 km line Table 4: Mean ... by decRliing abundance on setting. Species Mean Number Observed Setting Hauling White-chinned petrel ... generally large (mean size of 94 cm, 64% 90 cm or above). Most fish discarded for this reason were dead ... commercial viability of this fishing method for toothfish fisheries in the CCAMLR Convention Area. While the ... toothfish was notably lower than that achieved in the longline fishery. Importantly, the use of pots ... , March–May 2000 Abstract / Description:  During the period March to May 2000, the UK undertook trials of ... method successfully caught D. eleginoides, there was a large by-catch of crab species. The catch rate of ...

    Science Journal Paper : CCAMLR Science, Volume 8 (CCAMLR Science, Volume 8) : 93–105 : Author(s): Agnew, D.J., T.M. Daw, G.M. Pilling and M.G. Purves

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