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1. Observations of Adélie penguins in two seasons with contrasting weather and sea-ice conditions – a brief report

   Abstract:  The 2002-03 breeding season in comparison with 2000-01 at Edmondson Point was ... colony during December coinciding with hatching and the guard stage. The sea ice in the Ross Sea was held ... in by the presence of the large icebergs. This resulted in extensive sea ice lasting into February ... adjacent to the Edmonson Point colony. These environmental effects were accompanied by changes in CEMP ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/59 : Author(s): S. Olmastroni, F. Pezzo, V. Volpi and S. Focardi (Italy)

2. Distribution of temperature, salinity, density and flow across the Drake Passage in December 1994

   Fisheries Agency was conducted in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula in 199/95 austral summer season ... . In the survey, oceanographic observations were carried out along the north-south line from 56-21 S ... recognized by a steep gradient in temperature was located between 58-00S and 59-00S. The Antarctic Surface ... . Upwel1ing of the Warm Deep Water was suggested in the costal water north of the South Shetland Islands ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/30 : Author(s): M. Naganobu and K. Kutsuwada (Japan)

3. Some comments on the procedure of krill target strength assessment in echosurveys

   in echosurveys is discussed. It is known that krill abundance and biomass estimation should be ... considered as two independent tasks with different requirements to midwater trawl utilization in echosurveys ... requires another approach to echosurveys, since two actually independent task should be solved in that case ... : assessment of MSBS (MVBS) acoustic parameter distribution and krill length (weight) distribution in the study ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/21 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)

4. Latitudinal variation of demersal fish assemblages in the western Ross Sea

   Abstract:  Demersal fishes were sampled using a large fish trawl during two surveys carried out in ... February and March 2004 and 2008 in the Ross Sea, and around seamounts and islands just to the north at 66 ... °S. The distribution and abundance of 65 species collected in these surveys were examined to ... broad assemblages were identified, in the southern Ross Sea (south of 74°S), central–northern Ross Sea ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/P03 : Author(s): M.R. Clark, M.R. Dunn, P.J. McMillan, M.H. Pinkerton, A. Stewart and S.M. Hanchet

5. Information on levels of seabird by-catch in fisheries adjacent to the CAMLR Convention Area

   in 2013 for ACAP to provide information on the levels of seabird bycatch in fisheries adjacent to the ... framework is reported. It is noted that work is ongoing in this respect, and that the information provided ... assessed or analysed. In relation to Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs), it is reported ... that there is a general need to improve levels of bycatch reporting, and in some cases to develop or ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIII/BG/15 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Submitted by ACAP

6. Review of cetacean depredation in CCAMLR statistical subareas

   to the toothfish fishing industry and if not considered appropriately may lead to a bias in stock ... assessments through the underestimation of total mortality resulting from fishing and depredation combined. In ... some CCAMLR subareas this occurrence is well studied and included into stock assessments, while in ... other subareas the problem is known but not currently addressed. The areas in which the establishment of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/27 : Author(s): M. Soeffker (United Kingdom) and P. Tixier (France)

7. Summary of notifications for krill fisheries in 2006/07

   in the krill fishery in Area 48 in the 2006/07season. Author(s):  Secretariat Title:  Summary of ... notifications for krill fisheries in 2006/07 Approval:  Approved ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/6 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Secretariat

8. Metabarcoding analysis of the stomach contents of the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) collected in the Antarctic Ocean

   units [OTUs]) were obtained from 163 individuals in subarea 58.4, and 75,961 contigs (105 OTUs) from 164 ... fish in subarea 88.3. At 98 % sequence identity, species names were assigned to most OTUs in this study ... in this study, which included 14 fish species and 5 mollusks. More than 90 % of contigs belonged to ... additional 17 representative haplotypes in this study. Comparison with three previous morphological studies ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/P03 : Author(s): T.-H. Yoon, H.-E. Kang, S. R. Lee, J.-B. Lee, G. W. Baeck, H. Park and H.-W. Kim

9. Interannual variation in the summer diet of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) at Edmonson Point

   , in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, to study the feeding ecology of this species for the Commission for the ... Island in 2001. Mean diet composition varied from year to year and between the two locations in 2001 ... Edmonson Point. In the guard period, mean weight of food was lower at Inexpressible Island. Mean content of ... in stomach contents from Edmonson Point. Author(s):  S. Olmastroni, F. Pezzo, I. Bisogno and S ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/38 : Author(s): S. Olmastroni, F. Pezzo, I. Bisogno and S. Focardi (Italy)

10. Seabird by-catch update on industrial Patagonian toothfish fishery in southern Chile

    Abstract:  Implementation of NPOAs requires in first place an assessment of all longline fisheries ... with presumption of occurring seabird incidental mortality. Chile took this responsibility in 2001 and ... started the NPOA-S process by estimating the seabird bycatch at the Patagonian toothfish fishery in ... determined the initiation of the NPOA to reduce seabird incidental mortality in all longline fisheries in ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/13 : Author(s): J. Arata, C.A. Moreno and R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile)

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