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1. AN ASSESSMENT OF ARTIFICIAL BAIT (NORBAIT™) AS A MEANS OF REDUCING THE INCIDENTAL CATCH OF MACROURUS AND OTHER BYCATCH SPECIES IN HIGH LATITUDE TOOTHFISH FISHERIES

   (rattails) and other bycatch species in the toothfish autoline longline fishery. A company vessel carried ... out some initial experimental work in the western Ross Sea (CCAMLR Statistical Subarea 88.1) in 2007 ... Aspiring operating in the waters of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (CCAMLR Statistical ... were set in both Subareas; a total of 137,000 experimental hooks. The evaluation was based on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/52 : Author(s): J.M. Fenaughty (New Zealand)

2. Report of biological observations carried out on board the krill fishing vessel More Sodruzhestva in April to August 1991

   fishing vessel More Sodruzhestva in April to August 1991 in Subareas 48.2 and 48.3. The program included ... channichthyids. In general, krill density in Subarea 48.2 was twice as high as that in Subarea 48.3. Catch-per ... dominant in catches taken in April/May in the north-west of Subarea 48.2. Krill of modal sizes 31 to 32 mm ... and 35 to 36 mm made up the bulk of catches in the south-east of the subarea. No by-catch of juvenile ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/06 : Author(s): V.I. Latogursky (Russia)

3. Biological characteristics of Antarctic fish stocks in the Southern Scotia Arc region

   Abstract:  Commercial exploitation of finfish in the southern Scotia Arc took place from 1977/78 ... catches in the first four years of the fishery and the possibility to sample these catches extensively ... . Scientific surveys were only conducted by Germany in 1985, and by Spain in 1987 and 1991. Recently, the US ... lower South Shetland Islands in 1998 and around the South Orkney Islands in 1999. New data are presented ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/16 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany), C. Jones (USA) and S. Wilhelms (Germany)

4. LIFE HISTORY BUFFERING IN ANTARCTIC MAMMALS AND BIRDS AGAINST CHANGING PATTERNS OF CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION

   interannual variation in fitness. These species maximise fitness by keeping a low inter-annual variance in the ... survival of adults and in their propensity to breed annually, which are the vital rates that influence most ... the variability in population growth rate (λ). All these species have been able to buffer these rates ... against the effects of recent climate-driven habitat changes except for Antarctic fur seals, in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P05 : Author(s): J. Forcada, P.N. Trathan and E.J. Murphy

5. Environmental response of upper trophic level predators reveals a system change in an Antarctic marine ecosystem

   Abstract:  In the Antarctic Peninsula region current, long-term changes in the physical ... Georgia. Indices of population size and reproductive performance showed declines in all species and an ... increase in the frequency of years of low reproductive output. Changes in the population structure of krill ... largest size class was sufficient to support predator demand in the 1980's but not in the 1990's ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/21 : Author(s): K. Reid and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

6. Revised research plan for the 2016/17 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 by South Africa and Japan

   Abstract:  South Africa and Japan have revised the next season’s (2016/17) research plan in ... in 2016. We have used extracted data provided by CCAMLR Secretariat in this late August for the ... current analysis, but not used the cleaning data provided by them in this early September due to tight ... schedule toward the submission. We investigated the biological features of D. mawsoni in the Subarea and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/32 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of Japan and South Africa

7. Population identity, site-fidelity, movement ranges and preliminary estimates of abundance of southern right whales in the Antarctic Indian sector inferred from genetic markers

   identity as well the individual identity of southern right whales distributed in summer in the Antarctic ... abundance based on ‘mark-recapture’ methods in the Antarctic Indian sector (i.e., between 80°-135°E and ... south of 60°S). In total, 157 biopsy samples were collected as skin biopsies from free-ranging whales ... the presence of a Y-chromosome specific locus. The mtDNA analysis suggested that whales in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/18 : Author(s): L.A Pastene, M. Goto, P. Acuña, M. Taguchi, T. Hakamada and K. Matsuoka

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

   Abstract:  A few years after krill (Euphausia superba) fishing had started in 1972/73, it became ... by-catch in fisheries targeting krill. The species composition of fish by-catch in krill fisheries is ... well-known from Polish investigations in the late 1970s and the 1980s and from Japanese, Ukrainian, and ... Russian investigations in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. However, only a few investigations in the 1990s and ...

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

9. The effects of global climate variability in pup production of Antarctic fur seals

   range in scale from those that impact individuals to those that impact the entire food web. Climate ... -induced changes in the abundance of species in lower trophic levels can cascade up to apex predators by ... remain largely unexplored. We investigated the delectability, limits, and nonlinearity of changes in ... Antarctic fur seal pup production at South Georgia over a 20-year period in response to environmental ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/P2 : Author(s): J. Forcada, P.N. Trathan, K. Reid and E.J. Murphy (United Kingdom)

10. Results from the random stratified trawl surveys to estimate distribution and abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari in the Heard Island region (Division 58.5.2) for 2010 and 2011

    Abstract:  Random stratified trawl surveys were completed in September 2010 and in March to May ... 2011 on the RV Southern Champion, adding to the time series of annual surveys in Division 58.5.2 that ... commenced in 1997. An earlier survey in April 2010 was not completed, but valid hauls from this, as well as ... the September 2010 survey were used in the stock assessment as they provided valuable additional ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/23 : Author(s): G.B. Nowara, S.G. Candy and T. Lamb (Australia)

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