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1. Monitoring and management in the Antarctic – making the link between science and policy

   Abstract:  Management of human impacts in the Antarctic requires an effective system of monitoring ... . Human impacts arise as a result of processes that originate in the region (endogenous) and those that ... originate outside the region (exogenous). A number of monitoring programmes have been established in both ... minimise human impacts, is a complex process. Although potential analogues for target setting exist in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/P9 : Author(s): K. Reid (United Kingdom)

2. Some components of uncertainty in the CCAMLR 2000 acoustical survey of krill

   Abstract:  Quickly studied and quantified were sources of uncertainty in the CCAMLR 2000 ... acoustical estimate of krill abundance in FAO statistical area 48. The variance in system calibration was ... evaluated in relation to the effects of variant water temperature and salinity on sound speed, sound ... absorption, and beam characteristics. Uncertainty in krill target strength (TS) was estimated using a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/49 : Author(s): D.A. Demer (USA)

3. TOWARDS THE BALANCED STOCK ASSESSMENT OF ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH IN THE ROSS SEA

   toothfish in the Ross Sea. One of them, the CASAL model, (Dunn & Hanchet, 2007; Bull et al., 2007) is ... ) data. Besides that, some sorts of data, e.g. tagging data, are used in these models in quite different ... information was also quite different: while in TISVPA all sources of data gave rather coherent signals about ... the stock (Vaslilyev et al., 2007), in CASAL the solution was mostly supported by signals from tagging ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/08 : Author(s): D. Vasilyev and K. Shust (Russia)

4. Interannual variability of polynya extent in the Antarctic Ocean

   ), coastal polynya and open ocean polynya, in the Southern Ocean. Polynya accelerates oceanic and atmospheric ... polynyas influence biological activity in the winter and spring season. However, there are no minute ... and converted into the yearly mean. The time series of the yearly mean in the whole Antarctic Ocean ... are trending like a pulse wave. In the whole Antarctic Ocean, peak years of polynyas extent are in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/34 : Author(s): M. Naganobu and K. Segawa (Japan)

5. Beach litter accumulation and retention at sub-Antarctic Marion Island: trends in relation to longline fishing activity

   1998 are reported, and compared to surveys done in 1984 and 1995, prior to the onset of unregulated ... illegal fishing in this area. An exponential increase in the litter accumulation was noted in annual ... while fishing equipment also doubled during this period. An increase in the number and proportion of ... in light of reports of illegal fishing vessels using Port Louis, Mauritius, to land catches and ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVII/BG/25 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa

6. Distribution and abundance of larval fishes collected in the western Bransfield Strait region, 1986–87

   samples collected in the western Bransfield Strait region during four RACER program cruises, December ... , and Trematomus scotti, numerically dominated the total catch. Two typically abundant species in this ... differences appear to be responsible for substantial shifts in species abundance relations between the two ... in hydrographic conditions may explain species dominance differences between the RACER samples and ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/36 : Author(s): Delegation of USA

7. Population assessment of Patagonian toothfish in the north of Subarea 48.4 – 2010 update

   . eleginoides tagged and released in 2009/10, bringing the total to 1,547 in all seasons; There were 18 D ... . eleginoides tag recaptures in 2009/10, a total of 72 in all seasons; The length-frequency of 2009/10 captures ... . CASAL estimates a large recruitment event in early the early 1990s and faster growth rates than those ... currently assumed for the 48.3 population CASAL estimates of D. eleginoides population size in the North of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/39 : Author(s): J. Roberts and D. Agnew (UK)

8. Long-term study of the at-sea distribution of seabirds and marine mammals in the Scotia Sea, Antarctica

   showed successive decreases in abundance. Five baleen whales where recorded: Humpback, Sei, Southern ... encounter rate in the five years (0.29 ± 1.57 whale/nautical mile), followed by Humpback whale (0.09 ± 0.54 ... ). Annual dissimilarity in abundance of both birds and cetaceans occurred in conjunction with changes in sea ... largest aggregations of all top predators (seabirds and cetaceans) were recorded mainly in two regions ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/06 Rev. 1 : Author(s): J.L. Orgeira, M. Alderete, Y.G. Jiménez and J.C. González (Argentina)

9. Research plan for the 2016/17 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.1

   Abstract:  The current season (2015/16) is the first one of the second three-season research in ... data-poor fisheries. In the present report, the next season research plan in Division 58.4.1 was made ... . population(s) in data- poor exploratory fisheries. During the second three-season research, we will continue ... current research style in the current research blocks for the next season research with the sample sizes ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/04 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

10. Research plan for the 2016/17 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.2

    Abstract:  The current season (2015/16) is the first one of the second three-season research in ... data-poor fisheries. In the present report, the next season research plan in Division 58.4.2 was made ... . population(s) in data- poor exploratory fisheries. During the second three-season research, we will continue ... current research style in the current research blocks for the next research with the sample sizes ...

    Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/05 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

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